It's not about the absolute performance of the 170, which I agree is fairly easy to achieve via aftermarket, but rather, that an OEM has the balls to build and deliver such a beast of a car of this caliber that meets the regulatory requirements levied upon them, and with a factory warranty. This is unprecedented thus far.
I get it, and cool and all, but maybe I have a different perspective on these since I work on mine so much. If they made them as a standard offering rather than some one off race car that has a VIN I'd be much more excited about it.
I would've been looking to get something new this year or next and if Dodge had offered a RE170 narrow body for a reasonable price I'd have bought one.
I also kinda like having a customized car as that makes it more unique, but I can work on them so for me that's probably easier said than done for some folks that have to go to a shop for everything. Mine ran 9.63 at over 145mph on a baby tune (Jon's seen my logs and gives me crap about being so conservative). I also had an issue that severely impacted ET and was in +1200 DA and I'm guessing these cars will be 9.30 cars at around 148mph on a good day so my perspective is a bit different there as well. I think I've resolved the issue, the car was just making more power than I expected and hit a limit, but still ran 9.63.
The fastest I've ever seen an OG Demon run at my local track stock is a 10.30 at 131. Lightly modified with all the tricks 9.8x at 135 if memory serves.
Maybe I'm just bitter they're not gonna make em' anymore and that pisses me off.
