{"id":60941,"date":"2022-04-09T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=60941"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:39","slug":"two-icons-go-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/04\/two-icons-go-head-to-head.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Icons Go Head-to-Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 1968 Dodge Charger R\/T, one of the most recognizable muscles cars to date, and a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Demon, the vehicle that is no stranger to race-related headlines, meet at the drag strip. The \u201968 Charger left the factory with a 6.9-liter HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> V8 engine and the SRT Demon comes equipped with a 6.2-liter HEMI V8 engine that gets up to 840 horsepower on high-octane fuel \u2013 that\u2019s about 400 more ponies than its competition! With nearly double the torque and a four-second-quicker \u00bc-mile, the odds seem to be in the SRT Demon\u2019s favor at the start line. But what happens next? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Watch this Dodge Demon take on a \u201968 Dodge Charger at the track. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topspeed.com\/cars\/car-news\/modern-demon-vs-old-school-charger-you-don-t-want-to-miss-this-one-ar195424.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watch this Dodge SRT Demon take on a \u201968 Dodge Charger at the track<\/a> and let us know in the comments if the results were what you expected!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"Demon takes on Vintage Charger at the Track\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gz5vgLC4O3U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\">&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1968 Dodge Charger R\/T, one of the most recognizable muscles cars to date, and a 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT\u00ae Demon, the vehicle that is no stranger to race-related headlines, meet at the drag strip. The \u201968 Charger left the factory with a 6.9-liter HEMI\u00ae V8 engine and the SRT Demon comes equipped with a 6.2-liter HEMI V8 engine that gets up to 840 horsepower on high-octane fuel \u2013 that\u2019s about 400 more ponies than its competition! With nearly double the torque and a four-second-quicker \u00bc-mile, the odds seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,1921],"tags":[526,519],"class_list":["post-60941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","category-video","tag-challenger","tag-charger"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IconicDragRace_Feature.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60947,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60941\/revisions\/60947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}