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A 956-mile 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is taking bids right now on Hagerty Marketplace, and the money on it so far says more about the state of the modern muscle market than any spec sheet could. Three bids have pushed the car to $100,000 with the hammer set to fall Thursday, August 27 at 2:40 p.m. EDT. Photos courtesy of Hagerty Marketplace.
That $100,000 figure matters because of what sits above it. Hagerty's Valuation Tools currently peg a #3 (Good) condition 2023 Challenger SRT Demon 170 at $126,000 — a number that has slid 16 percent over the past twelve months. Two years ago these cars traded at a premium that looked permanent. It wasn't.
What's Actually On Offer
This example comes out of the Burnyzz collection in Ocala, Florida, offered on dealer consignment and finished in Granite Pearl Coat over Black and Demonic Red Laguna leather. The odometer reads 956 miles, which is enough to prove the car runs and not much else. VIN 2C3CDZL98PH100910 carries a clean CARFAX with Alabama and Florida registration history, a clean Florida title, the original window sticker, and the owner's manual. The seller notes an outstanding loan that will be paid off at transfer.
The hardware remains the most absurd thing Dodge ever put a factory warranty behind. The supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI runs a 3.0-liter blower and makes 1,025 horsepower on E85 — the "170" refers to the 170-proof ethanol blend — dropping to a merely violent 900 horsepower on pump E10. Dodge certified an 8.91-second quarter-mile at 151.17 mph, a 1.66-second run to 60, and 2.004 g of launch acceleration, the highest figure ever recorded by a production car. TransBrake 2.0, Mickey Thompson drag radials on staggered 17- and 18-inch wheels, the Air-Grabber hood, the sound insulation delete, and the SRT Power Chiller are all present. Production stopped at 3,000 U.S. cars and 300 for Canada.
What The Hagerty Numbers Show
The correction is hard to argue with once you line up the price guide. The Demon 170's #3 value of $126,000 is down 16 percent year over year. The 2023 Black Ghost, another Last Call headliner, sits at $123,000 and is off 15.2 percent. Meanwhile the 2018 SRT Demon — the 840-horsepower original, built in far smaller numbers — holds at $91,900 and is dead flat over the same period. The older, rarer Demon has stopped falling. The newer one hasn't.
Recent results back that up. A 22-mile Demon 170 brought $121,000 at Mecum on August 14, 2026. A 2023 Hellcat Widebody Jailbreak went for $90,200 the same day, and a 460-mile Hellcat Jailbreak managed $80,325 on Bring a Trailer two days before that. Set those against the $180,000 a 12-mile Demon 170 commanded when the cars were still genuinely scarce on the open market and the shape of the curve becomes obvious. We have watched low-mile Jailbreaks land well under expectations, and the Demon sits squarely inside the broader pattern of collector segments buyers are quietly stepping back from.
The Case For Buying The Dip
Here is the counterargument, and it isn't a weak one. A car that has already given back a large chunk of its speculative peak is a very different proposition from one still climbing. The Demon 170 is not going to be re-made. No manufacturer is going to certify an eight-second street-legal quarter-mile again, and the regulatory window that let this car exist has closed behind it. What is correcting is the flipper premium, not the engineering.
Mileage is where the remaining spread lives. Delivery-mileage cars — the 25-mile examples still wearing their factory protective coverings and the 73-mile cars still riding on a Manufacturer's Certificate of Origin — are museum pieces first and cars second. At 956 miles, this one has been titled, registered in two states, and driven enough to be an actual automobile. That likely costs it something against the very best examples on paper. It also means the next owner can use it without ruining the story.
With a week left to run and more than 4,000 sets of eyes already on the listing, the question isn't whether this Demon 170 clears $100,000. It's whether the room still believes in $126,000.
