Dodge's Electric Muscle Car Is Due For 2024
"If a charger can make a Charger quicker, we're in."
Stellantis' EV Day stream just finished, and for Dodge, it means their plans for the immediate future is set. The centrepiece: an all-electric muscle car.
The idea has been teased as early as three weeks ago but Dodge's vision is clear after this event. Behind the marketing noise delivered by brand CEO Tim Kuniskis, there is only one thing that he made clear: Dodge and Mopar's engineers "are reaching a practical limit of what we can squeeze from internal combustion innovation," and that if EVs can deliver more punch, Dodge "has an obligation to embrace it".
Poor Camaro, though.
It's easy to see why: while the correlation depicted by the graph above seems like a bit of a reach, it's readily apparent how the Hellcat approach has kept the Dodge Challenger and Charger at the top of the minds of enthusiasts and prospective buyers. So if Dodge really wanted it, they can probably make a four-digit-horsepower muscle car and steal a bit of thunder from Tesla.
Best to see it as a gif.
Back to the car, then. Dodge only teased a shadowy figure of a concept near the end of their keynote, but from what little we've seen, it looks like it'd lean even more heavily on the retro-modern styling that has now made the current Challenger and Charger an icon, with an obvious callback to the '70s HEMI-powered muscle machines of yesteryear.
There's also a new logo that's kinda like Dodge's old fratzog logo from the '60s and a rather telling connection to the hammerhead shark, which could be a hint as to what the EV truck will be called.
That blue is ominous.
Timetable: 2024. It'll be a three-year wait to see the entire concept become a reality, so until then, the explosive Hellcats and Demons and Redeyes of the world will still roar at their loudest.
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The 2024 Challenger's voice box.
It's not all speed for some of us it is the sound as well.
Indeed. That thump and supercharger whir is nigh-irreplaceable.
Yup
Dodge was seemingly going to be the company that would provide the last stand for the ICE, cranking out Greta-muffling V8s for years to come as. Unfortunately, government grants, new ownership, and peer pressure caused them to pull a France in near record time.
It wasn't peer pressure, it was literally france. Peugeot bought them and turned them into an EV company.
Yep
It's sad to watch the death of the production muscle car play out in my lifetime
Cars were invented practically yesterday, we get tunnel vision. It was always going to move on, I'm not selling any of my classics, nothing like them will ever be made again.
Apparently everyone doesn't get it, it's not about numbers.