Love or hate it, the Dodge Demon has been the most talked about car for more than a year now, and for good reason. Dodge made the Demon to accomplish two things, and they did those two things very well. For one, they set of to ease your pain over the loss of the Viper, which we aren’t forgiving them about yet, but it’s a start. And secondly, they set out to create the quickest production car around. Until Tesla eats their lunch with their new Roadster model, that’s exactly what it is, the car with the most power out of the box, and fastest on race day without help from the aftermarket.

So, how are the other automakers reacting to this? We know Ford is falling back pretty hard on the Ford GT, and they seem content offering the GT500 as a more practical car than the Demon. Ford has its options, they might not have a Demon alternative, but they don’t seem worried.

Chevy, on the other hand, might be sweating. They have the ZR1 coming out, but few would consider a high-ticket Corvette as being a Demon alternative. Otherwise, the ZL1 Camaro wouldn’t stand a chance without some serious modifications by the consumer, so nothing really exists to hurt the Demon’s popularity and sales in the world of GM.

That could change, and we hope it changes because the more monster horsepower production cars are out there, the happier we are as gearheads. Hagerty recently reached out to lead Camaro engineer, Al Oppenheiser, to get his take on the current state of the Camaro lineup and how that fits into the Dodge Demon’s world. He said that the Camaro team is paying attention, for sure, but his answer, epic. When asked about creating a Camaro to rival the Demon, Al has this to say “But do you want to follow or do you want to lead?”.

“We’re looking at ways we can check the box so that somebody who buys an SS on up can order a drag package,” Al Oppenheiser offered, strongly eluding to a street legal drag Camaro in the pipelines!