RESIDENT EVIL
REINFORCE THE doors, lock your children in the garage and sharpen your kitchen utensils. Australia is under attack. Supercharged V8 invaders have breached our borders, threatening to devour untold litres of high-octane unleaded and terrorise tyres regardless of size or compound. They might wear American badges, but this power-mad pairing hail from the underworld, muscle cars built to prowl Route 666.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Demon – Dodge Demon to its mates – is the world’s quickest-accelerating production car and has the Guinness Book of World Records entry to prove it. A full-throttle launch will pin your head against the seat with 1.8g of acceleration and lift the front tyres off the ground as it storms past 100km/h in 2.5sec on its way to a 9.65sec quarter mile at 225km/h, a time and trap speed that saw it banned by US drag racing body the NHRA.
THE DEMON IS THE WORLD’S QUICKEST PRODUCTION CAR BUT THE AFTERMARKET HAS GONE A STEP FURTHER
In terms of production cars, the Demon is the muscle-car king, but as is typically the case, the aftermarket has gone a step further. Texan tuner Hennessey Performance never met a horsepower it didn’t like and is famous for sending outputs into the stratosphere. When it needed to vanquish the Demon,
