The ultimate Dodge Challenger has rolled off the meeting line at Stellantis’ plant in Brampton, Canada, marking the tip of the long-lived V-8 muscle automotive and its LX platform.

Accomplished on Dec. 22, the ultimate automotive was a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 in Pitch Black, a Dodge spokesperson confirmed to Motor Authority. The automaker would not share the destiny of this last automotive, so it is unclear if it’s a buyer automotive or might be stored by Stellantis for posterity.

The Demon 170 was the ultimate mannequin in a collection of “Final Name” particular editions constructed to rejoice the tip of the present Challenger and Charger. With a 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 producing 1,025 hp and 945 lb-ft of torque on E85 gasoline (and 900 hp and 810 lb-ft on E10 premium gasoline), it is laborious to think about a greater sendoff.

Dodge has mentioned the Demon 170 will do 0-60 mph in 1.66 seconds and pull 2.0 g off the road on a prepped floor with rollout. The automaker additionally claims an NHRA-certified quarter-mile time of 8.91 seconds at 151.17 mph. That made the Demon 170 the quickest accelerating and quickest manufacturing automotive cash may purchase. Pricing was set at $100,361.

2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170

Dodge confirmed to Motor Authority that it did find yourself constructing the complete 3,300 Demon 170s it aimed to. The Brampton plant was scheduled to cease constructing LX-platform vehicles on the finish of the 12 months no matter what number of Demon 170s had been truly constructed, so there was an opportunity the manufacturing quantity may have been decrease. Dodge started taking last orders for gasoline-powered Challengers and Chargers in July.

With the last Chrysler 300C efficiency sedan additionally having rolled out of the identical plant earlier this month (and Dodge Charger manufacturing having additionally wrapped up), manufacturing of LX-platform vehicles has formally ended after practically twenty years. 

2023 Dodge Challenger and 2023 Dodge Charger Mopar ’23 editions

The LX platform introduced rear-wheel-drive, V-8 efficiency vehicles again to what was then DaimlerChrysler within the early 2000s. It was first used within the 300 and the Dodge Magnum wagon, with the Charger and Challenger coming later. Whereas the Magnum had a brief life, the 300, Charger, and Challenger survived principally unchanged lengthy after different vehicles would have been redesigned or discontinued. Ford instance, the rival Ford Mustang has been redesigned twice within the time the present Challenger has been on sale.

Whereas the gasoline Challenger and Charger are lifeless, Dodge hasn’t confirmed the tip of those nameplates. Any future successors will possible be EVs, although. Dodge already plans to launch an electrical muscle automotive within the coming 12 months, previewed by the Charger Daytona SRT idea.