The vast majority of track times that we discuss here at Stellpower occur on the East Coast of the United States in the late fall or winter months, because the air density is pretty much unbeatable. When the Dodge team ran their 8.91 record, they did so at South Georgia Motorsports Park in December, when … Read more
Last week, we brought you the first footage of a 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 making a soft pull on the open road and today, we bring you what we believe to be the first footage of privately owned 170s making quarter mile runs. There are likely to be others from this past weekend … Read more
The first batch of 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170s are being delivered right now and as people who bought them to enjoy rather than to flip are starting to share pictures and videos of their 1,025-horsepower muscle car in the real world. One of those Demon 170 owners is Ariel Soltura, who has shared … Read more
Earlier today, Dodge Garage posted about the winter weather apparel available on Dodge Life – the official online store of the high horsepower brand. They have many jackets, sweatshirts and track suits available in the men’s and women’s sections, but after looking at those items, I had a look at the “Specially Priced” section of … Read more
Matt Hagan and his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat funny car lost in the second round of the final event of the NHRA season, but when Robert Hight and Bob Tasca III also lost in the second round, no other drivers remaining in the field could catch him – securing Hagan’s fourth NHRA Funny Car Championship.Coming … Read more
Dodge has returned to having thousands of dollars of rebates onto its cars after a years-long run of being able to sell at or over list price. The rebates do not apply to certain vehicles; at least one dealer is trying to make roughly the same profit on Dodge Demon 170s as the retail value … Read more
60% of Unifor members voted for the proposed contract with Stellantis, which means that it has been ratified. The company has invested $12.6 billion (CAD) in the country since 2010, is the largest producer of vehicles made in Canada, and has almost twice as many represented workers as any of the former Big Three.The agreement … Read more
Dodge announced this morning that the second edition of the modern Direct Connection catalog is now available online and one of the items added to the new list of available items is the C170 Hellephant Series crate engine. The C170 is the crate engine name of the production engine in the 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT … Read more
Last week, we were the first to break the news that the first wave of 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 units had been loaded onto trucks en route to dealerships. Today, we bring you the first look at the window sticker for the 1,025-horsepower Mopar muscle car. Read more
Back in August, the Dodge brand had a sort of ceremonial delivery of Jay Leno’s 2023 Challenger SRT Demon 170 on the day of the Woodward Dream Cruise, but since then, there has been little news of the 1,025-horsepower muscle cars shipping out to dealerships. That is because since then, none of them have shipped … Read more
Forza Motorsport – the 8th edition of the popular racing simulator for Xbox systems – formally came to market on October 10th (or the 5th for buyers of the game’s Premium version) and among the 500+ vehicles available so far are 17 Dodge products, 2 Plymouth vehicles, 1 Eagle and 1 Chrysler Charger. Of those … Read more
These images of Dodge Charger chassis from the assembly plant were posted recently to Allpar’s forums by member con383, who only said they were “found online.” The body shells, with a paper whose only readable letters are “TT,” appear to be ready for a standard engine, unless the apparent gasoline filler area is actually a port for a charger… Read more
These images of Dodge Charger chassis from the assembly plant were posted recently to Allpar’s forums by member con383, who only said they were “found online.” The body shells, with a paper whose only readable letters are “TT,” appear to be ready for a standard engine, unless the apparent gasoline filler area is actually a port for a charger… Read more
Last week, we brought you the unfortunate news that the Dodge Challenger Drag Pak teams in the NHRA Factory Stock Showdown class had essentially been penalized for Mark Pawuk setting class records, so they had to move to a larger supercharger pulley. The FSS class was in action this past weekend and the semifinals saw … Read more
This past weekend, both of the Dodge-sponsored NHRA Top Fuel teams won at the Texas Nationals, with Matt Hagan winning in the Funny Car class for the second event in a row while Leah Pruett took the big win in the Top Fuel Dragster class. With these two big wins, the Tony Stewart Racing Top … Read more
Years ago, Chrysler introduced faux-automatic programming to the CVTs it bought from JATCO and used in the Caliber, Compass, and Patriot, to make the cars more comfortable for people used to automatics.Today, Stellantis has patented a fake transmission feel for battery-electric cars, making vehicles with single-speed transmissions feel like conventional four-or-more-speed automatics. The idea makes … Read more
