11/18/2023 0 Comments Challenger skat pack logoIt’s quite interesting.īack to our story. So please, feel free to read up on that stuff, as I did. That said, the Challenger has an interesting backstory, as it was originally built on a modified platform and shared some Mercedes-Benz DNA because it was in development during the Daimler-Chrysler era. Originally, I was going to run through the Challenger’s history, which goes back to concept sketches first shown in 2005 but changed my mind because it’s ancient history, and the car we have now is what matters. The one shown here is a Shakedown Special Editon, which is the first of the Last Calls. A production variant of that car is expected to go on sale next year.īut in the meantime, Dodge is ensuring the current third-gen Challenger will go out with a bang thanks to the release of seven “Last Call” special editions. Like all automotive marques, Dodge’s future is electric, and they’ve indicated as much with the reveal of the Charger Daytona SRT, a pure electric concept first shown last summer. I’m not going to say those were my exact thoughts when I, for the last time, picked up a Challenger press car for a week’s worth of fun recently, but it was close enough.Īs you may have heard, 2023 marks the end of production for the Dodge Challenger, along with its sedan stablemates, the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300. Logic and common sense are tossed out the window and it’s time to go for a rip! Quit tying so hard.īut then you clunk its heavy driver’s side door shut, get comfortable in its bathtub environs, fire up one of its massive V8s, such as the 6.4-litre (392 cubic inch) HEMI, and the chortling of its deep bass exhaust fills the cabin – and your brain stem – with intense feelings of, “oh yeah!” and you forget how fundamentally absurd this car is. Ok dude, we get it – you’re the Captain America of muscle cars. Slab-sided, with tiny windows, massive wheels, and a long hood, but also little round headlights like eyes peeking out from under a pulled-down ballcap that say, “what are you looking at?”Įven among muscle car rivals from Ford and GM, the Dodge Challenger is the most out there, perhaps flexing a little too hard, leaning into its own prodigious power and badassery a bit too much, and reveling it its horsepower king status for a bit too long. This car is anachronism, and it has been that way since its inception.
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