Last week we brought you the news of the future plans for the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and this week, we bring you a look at the features of the Demon’s minisite – IfYouKnowYouKnow.com. This page is part of Dodge.com and it is chock full of promises of future teaser videos leading up to the debut of the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon in New York.
When IfYouKnowYouKnow.com launched last week, the main attraction was the video “Cage”, which is the first thing to load on the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon minisite. That video is an interesting adaptation of an older Dodge Hellcat video, but this time, the Hellcat in the cage evolves into something far more menacing – presumably the Challenger Demon.
If you watched that video and flipped to another website, you may have missed the few other key features on the Challenger SRT Demon minisite, as scrolling to the right of the video reveals a little picture of a tire smoking along with a collection of Demon-themed wallpapers. If you watch the smoking tire, you will notice that it restarts every few seconds, revealing the design of the wheel in that smoking tire. This is presumably the wheel of the Demon, which looks to be smaller than the Hellcat wheels. Also, it looks as though the wheel is in a flared quarter panel, so perhaps the Demon is the long-rumored widebody muscle car which was previewed with the SEMA Show Challenger AWD GT Concept.
In addition to the smoking tire, there are a few other images to go with the Challenger Demon theme, including five different wallpapers with Dodge and Demon branding or graphics of the Demon creature in the Cage video.
Video number two drops in 2 days and 15 hours, so come Thursday morning, we will have our next look at the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon puzzle. In the meantime, check out IfYouKnowYouKnow.com for your Challenger Demon wallpapers choices.
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