Demon Owner Flexes Mopar Muscles in Sweden
Instagrammer scores some major street cred for getting a Challenger in one of the most emissions-strict countries in the world.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was technically only sold by FCA in North America, but Mopar lovers with enough money on other continents can acquire the 840-horsepower muscle car with the help of grey market importers. While scrolling through the #Demon hashtag on Instagram, we came across the account of SWE_Mopar, a Swedish citizen who has car number 0239 out of 3,303. Remember, three burned in shipping and as a result, three more were added to the production total.
SWE_Mopar has an awesome page with tons of cool pictures of his Challenger overseas, so we reached out to him for some information on owning America’s most powerful production car in Sweden.
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When we reached out to SWE_Mopar, we direct messaged him and asked what went into having a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon in Sweden. Unfortunately, he speaks Swedish, not English, but he did his best to answer our questions.
The Instagrammer explained that he ordered the car through a local dealership and since the Demon isn’t sold in Sweden, he must have used a grey market importer. These firms specialize in acquiring cars that are not marketed in a region, having them shipped into the country and then modified to meet any different legal requirements in that local market.
In this case, the dealer had the Demon shipped from the United States and when it arrived, the importer performed the work needed to make the Challenger legal for Swedish road use.
We cannot find the exact list of changes needed, but the owner explained that there are changes made to the headlights and some other small things. He did not go into detail, but as you can see in the pictures here, those changes didn’t have any physical impact on the look of the monster muscle car.
Countryside to Shore
The Instagram page has many pictures of the black Demon in the Swedish countryside, along with shots of the car parked along some sort of shoreline. In addition to the pictures, there are a handful of videos allowing us to hear this Hemi Challenger roar through the Borla Atak exhaust system. In one of the videos, Christmas plays as the car starts, revs and knocks down the small statue of Santa positioned near the exhaust tip.
Every Demon turns heads when they roll down the streets of the United States and Canada, but for such a rare car to rumble along the streets of a country where the car is not offered by FCA must make this supercharged Challenger a real showstopper.
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