New Demon Tops All Sellers at Mecums Kansas City Auction
The 840-horsepower Demon outsold all of the classics on hand with a final sale price of more than $130,000.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is the quickest production car in the world, dashing from 0-60 in just 2.3 seconds while covering the quarter mile in just 9.65 seconds. These cars have proven to be a hot commodity from the day that they went on sale with just 3,300 units being built, leading to the kind of auction prices that you might expect from a limited production street car that will run 9s and lift the front tires off of the ground in the process.
The Demon Heads to Auction
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon has an MSRP of $86,090 when you factor in Gas Guzzler Tax and destination fees. We don’t know what options were included with the car that rolled across the Mecum auction block in Kansas City, but if it had the Comfort Audio Group with Leather Seats package ($2,495), the optional leather rear seat ($1), the painted Black Satin graphics package ($3,495) and the high performance Demon Crate ($1), the MSRP rises to $92,082.
You can bring that number higher if you add in one of the optional paint colors (B5 Blue adds $69, Plum Crazy adds $70), the power sunroof ($4,995) or red seat belts ($195), but for less than $93,000, you can have all of the seats in leather, the premium black graphics package and all of the goodies needed to run mid-9s.
However, with just 3,300 units slated for production and just about every car being spoken for, the new Demon is nearly impossible to buy at this point. Some dealerships have one or two available for sale, but you can expect to pay huge markups – often putting the price well over the $125,000 mark. With that in mind, the final selling price of the Demon at the Mecum Kansas City auction shouldn’t come as all that big of a shock.
Demon Leads the Field
Hundreds of new and classic cars and trucks rolled across the auction block of the Mecum Kansas City event last month, but with a final price of $130,900, the 2018 Demon was the highest-priced car to sell at the auction. In fact, the 840-horsepower Challenger was one of just two cars to get into the six-figure range, with a classic Shelby GT350 Mustang coming in second with a final price of $102,300. No other Dodge products ranked in the top ten, nor did any other model vehicles.
While we don’t know what options are fitted to the Demon that sold at the Mecum Kansas City event, if it was well-appointed, it likely had an MSRP in the area of $90,000. Based on that, the winning bidder paid roughly $40,000 over sticker price to get one of the 3,000 units being built for the US market.
In other words, if you are dead-set on getting a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, you might be better off paying a dealer markup that leads to a price of less than $130,000, as that appears to be the going auction rate for the 840-horsepower Mopar monster.
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