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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise
I'm not a 1/4 mile guy, but am I the only one who thinks it's pointless to make a production car for the drag strip that can't actually make a pass? I mean yeah a 1.36 sec 60' and 9.65 sec 1/4 mile are impressive, but it's weird for Dodge to brag about that when no buyer is ever going to experience that launch without the surface prep at a strip (which this car is now banned from).
It's sort of the equivalent of someone who buys a Viper ACR for its lap times and never takes it to the track. Except in this case even if you wanted to take the car out, you would literally be barred from it. Seems an odd way to market the car. It's like Dodge is counting on the buyers to either be guys who only care about 1/4 mile bragging rights but never want to try it for themselves, or guys who are willing to hack up their shiny new $90k car to put in the necessary cage.
It's a cool car but I guess I don't really "get" it.
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If I understand the NHRA rules correctly, cars that can run under a 9.9 require a full cage, fire suit, fire suppression system, and a few other things, so the Demon can run the strip, you just have to add some stuff.