Low-Mileage 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 Sells for $156,500, Owner Accepts Reality?

Do you know what’s funny? As I’m typing these words, there’s still a chance somebody will meet the reserve for this car. Yet, I’ve already written down the title of the piece (something about how it didn’t sell), I know what I’m going to say, and I know what’s about to happen. The auction keeps getting prolonged. It nearly closed at $148,000, but it’s now up to $156k with 10 seconds left... and oh, boy! It sold! The owner just accepted $156,500.

Yeah, I have to be honest, I didn’t see this one coming, which is why I didn’t take out the text from before. Actually, I left it in for another very important reason – this might just be one of the first, if not the first low-mileage Demon 170 model sold at a market-adjusted price.

We all know that flippers and various dealerships would have loved to keep selling these cars for roughly $200k, but that reality is long gone. Swallowed up by an unforgiving multiverse that suddenly seems to favor buyers.

Some of you might think that $156k is still too much, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you were right. The next Demon 170 that ends up selling at a reasonable price, might just trade hands at around the $145k mark, if not lower. Slowly but surely, these cars are sliding back towards MSRP value.

So then, what can the new owner of this Demon 170 look forward to? For starters, they just got a pretty good-looking Challenger. It’s got the Go Mango exterior (always a popular choice), satin black Air-Grabber hood, roof, and decklid, plus the SRT Performance rear spoiler with an integrated rearview camera and a set of black wheels (18” front / 17” rear) with Mickey Thompson ET Street tires and black Brembo calipers.

Meanwhile, interior highlights include the Alcantara-wrapped steering wheel, black Alcantara and Laguna leather seats (also heated and ventilated), carbon fiber trim (dashboard, center console), remote start, dual-zone climate control, a Harman Kardon sound system, and more.

As for the engine, it’s a 6.2-liter high-output Hemi V8 (the 3.0-liter supercharger kind), pumping out 900 horsepower and 810 lb-ft of torque on conventional E10 fuel, or 1,025 horsepower and 945 lb-ft of torque on E85. In a perfect world, this is a sub-9-second car over a quarter mile.

Ultimately, I can’t get past what that one person said in the comments section of the ad (regarding this car having previously sold for $173k with delivery miles). It would mean that it went from $123 to $173k to $156k in the span of... hard to say exactly, but this thing hasn’t been on the road for all that long. That’s a pretty wild sequence of events, if true.