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As you’re well aware, Dodge isn’t present in Europe for obvious reasons. But over in the United Kingdom, the peeps at Clive Sutton are much obliged to sell you a Demon for the unbelievable amount of £140,000 on-the-road with 250 miles on the odometer.
The markup is nothing to scoff at, not when the retail price for the 2018 model year used to be $84,995. At the current exchange rate, those pounds sterling translate to $177,450. But wait, there’s more!
For the 2019 model year, the 840-horsepower Demon has been replaced by the Hellcat Redeye. This product of the Street & Racing Technology division has 797 horsepower on tap, and if you buy one through Clive Sutton, the price is £119,950 compared to $71,350 in the United States of America.
An SRT Hellcat with the Widebody option would be £89,499 compared to $66,350, thank you! A regular Hellcat, on the other hand, is £69,950 at Clive Sutton compared to $60,350 on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. In other words, speculation is the name of the game.
This type of business isn’t exclusive to the United Kingdom or muscle cars, though. Remember when the GT350 and GT350R came out a few years ago, packing the 5.2-liter Voodoo V8 with a flat-plane crankshaft? Speculators were all over those two, and even U.S. dealers jumped on the bandwagon.
Back when Marchionne was running Fiat Chrysler, the formed chief executive officer claimed that the next generation of the Challenger (and Charger) wouldn’t transition to Alfa Romeo’s Giorgio platform. Instead, the Maserati vehicle architecture that underpins the Ghibli, Quattroporte, and Levante is expected to replace the Chrysler LX that was introduced in 2004 on the 300 sedan and station wagon.
Even more curiously, there’s hearsay according to which the LX will be updated once again for next-generation Dodge models. Now that’s something we’re not exactly happy to hear, unless the HEMI V8 soldiers on in both naturally aspirated and supercharged flavors.
For the 2019 model year, the 840-horsepower Demon has been replaced by the Hellcat Redeye. This product of the Street & Racing Technology division has 797 horsepower on tap, and if you buy one through Clive Sutton, the price is £119,950 compared to $71,350 in the United States of America.
An SRT Hellcat with the Widebody option would be £89,499 compared to $66,350, thank you! A regular Hellcat, on the other hand, is £69,950 at Clive Sutton compared to $60,350 on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. In other words, speculation is the name of the game.
This type of business isn’t exclusive to the United Kingdom or muscle cars, though. Remember when the GT350 and GT350R came out a few years ago, packing the 5.2-liter Voodoo V8 with a flat-plane crankshaft? Speculators were all over those two, and even U.S. dealers jumped on the bandwagon.
Back when Marchionne was running Fiat Chrysler, the formed chief executive officer claimed that the next generation of the Challenger (and Charger) wouldn’t transition to Alfa Romeo’s Giorgio platform. Instead, the Maserati vehicle architecture that underpins the Ghibli, Quattroporte, and Levante is expected to replace the Chrysler LX that was introduced in 2004 on the 300 sedan and station wagon.
Even more curiously, there’s hearsay according to which the LX will be updated once again for next-generation Dodge models. Now that’s something we’re not exactly happy to hear, unless the HEMI V8 soldiers on in both naturally aspirated and supercharged flavors.
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