Mopar’s 426 Hemi V8 engine powered the biggest, baddest muscle cars during America’s Golden Age of hillbilly high-performance. The Middle East oil crisis shut down that party in the early 1970s, but a smoldering roach kept the Dodge flame alive and a towering inferno called the Dodge Challenger SRT, offered as a variety of models from 2015-2024. The 2023 Dodge Demon 170 developed an absurd 1,025 hp on E85 fuel, with a staggering 0-60 mph time of 1.66 seconds. The most powerful muscle car ever made, it was also Chrysler Corporation’s last gas-guzzling gasp, prefiguring the extinction of the internal combustion engine and the current all-electric Challenger.
From the article by Robert Ross, Bryan Hood, Erik Shilling
