It is the top of an period for 2 muscle-car nameplates with wealthy heritage within the gas-powered period. The 2023 Dodge Challenger and 2023 Charger would be the final automobiles with these names to depend on ICE propulsion, and to commemorate the send-off into the EV period, Dodge will provide a brace of recent variations, paint colours, and uprated fashions.
A Challenger Convertible shall be provided by means of vendor channels, although it is going to be custom-built by outdoors suppliers. Dodge will even resurrect its Durango Hellcat SUV for yet one more mannequin yr, when initially it had mentioned the car would solely be bought for a single mannequin yr.
In all, seven new particular editions shall be provided within the 2023 mannequin yr. Dodge teases them as tributes to fashions from the model’s muscle-car previous—and although it hasn’t detailed all of them but, it does say that the “buzz” fashions will go to sellers as a bonus allocation after preliminary allocations promote out. Prospects will be capable to verify DodgeGarage.com for availability of the thrill fashions, and the probability of vendor markups on the rarest of the uncommon Chargers and Challengers appears to be a positive factor. One of many seven buzz fashions shall be revealed on the aftermarket and tuner SEMA present in Las Vegas within the fall—and Dodge will not even speak about besides to say that it’ll “make Brampton actually proud.”
Stellantis’ Brampton, Ontario, meeting plant builds the Charger and Challenger. When their manufacturing ends, the plant will endure a major improve to accommodate a brand new era of as-yet-unnamed automobiles.
2023 Dodge Charger and Challenger Final Name
Apart from the particular version fashions, the 2023 Charger and Challenger additionally will get revived heritage paint selections, together with Chic inexperienced, Plum Loopy purple, and B5 Blue; every car additionally will get a “Final Name” plaque underneath its hood. The SRT Jailbreak package deal shall be utilized to the Charger and Challenger Hellcat. This package deal permits patrons to customise every part from paint colour to stripes and decals to seat belts to wheels, exhaust suggestions, spoilers, and inside trim.
Charger and Challenger R/T fashions additionally get a “345” fender badge to indicate their 345-cubic-inch V-8 engine.
The Charger and Challenger have been up to date however not fully overhauled of their decade-plus in manufacturing. The Charger was new in 2005; the Challenger, in 2007.
Stellantis, the guardian firm of the Dodge model in addition to Chrysler, Jeep, and Ram, has confirmed on a number of events that the replacements for the Charger and Challenger shall be electrical automobiles based mostly on a brand new large-car international structure that shall be bought with rear- and all-wheel-drive variants.
