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We’re simply gonna lower to the chase on this one, as a result of there’s rather a lot to cowl; Dodge simply unveiled the 2024 Charger, which is coming into manufacturing in mid-2024 with absolutely electrical powertrains however will acquire an inside combustion inline-6 possibility subsequent yr. Its styling sticks near the idea from 2022, and the brand new Charger will surprisingly be out there with both two or 4 doorways. The all-wheel-drive Charger Daytona EV would be the quickest and strongest muscle automotive you should buy because of the Scat Pack’s 670-hp powertrain — and the demise of the Chevy Camaro ZL1 and Ford Mustang GT500. And it’s obtained that Fratzonic exhaust that provides “Hellcat ranges of sound depth” and might even be revved, amongst different rad efficiency options like Line Lock and Donut modes.
When you simply need to examine the Charger EV’s specs and the way they examine to different efficiency EVs, we’ve obtained a narrative for you. When you simply need to look by means of images of the brand new Charger, we’ve obtained a narrative for you. When you particularly need to learn what we all know concerning the ICE Chargers, we’ve obtained a narrative for you. However if you wish to be taught element concerning the 2024 Charger, then that is the story for you. Let’s dive in.
The Efficiency
The Charger is the primary manufacturing Stellantis mannequin to journey on the model’s modular STLA Giant platform. At launch, the Charger EV will likely be provided in two completely different trims: The Charger Daytona R/T and the Charger Daytona Scat Pack. Each fashions use a 100.5-kWh battery pack with a 400-volt structure, a 550-kW discharge fee and prismatic cells, and each have an electrical motor at every axle. Dodge says each motors every can generate 335 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque, and the rear motor has a mechanical limited-slip differential.
Usually the R/T places out a complete of 456 horsepower and 404 lb-ft, or 496 hp with the PowerShot increase operate enabled; Dodge says it’ll hit 60 mph in 4.7 seconds, run the quarter-mile in 13.1 seconds and attain a high pace of 137 mph. The Scat Pack affords 630 hp (or 670 with PowerShot lively) and 627 lb-ft, ok for a 3.3-second 0-to-60 time, an 11.5-second quarter-mile and a 134-mph high pace. Dodge quotes each fashions as having a curb weight of 5,838 kilos, which is 1,591 kilos heavier than an outgoing V6 AWD Charger and 1,244 greater than a Charger Hellcat, and the load distribution is claimed to be “close to excellent.”
Dodge will supply a variety of Direct Connection Stage efficiency kits for the Daytona, with each fashions getting two completely different kits. At launch the R/T comes with the Stage 1 equipment (a 40-hp improve) and the Scat Pack is provided with the Stage 2 equipment (and 80-hp improve), however in later mannequin years you’ll need to buy the upgrades. Dodge beforehand talked about how these kits will be downloaded and put in by way of an over-the-air replace, that are registered to the automotive’s VIN. Coming within the subsequent mannequin yr would be the SRT Banshee, the highest-performance mannequin that the 2022 idea previewed. We all know the Banshee will use the 800-volt model of the platform, and up to date stories have pointed to the Banshee getting practically 900 horsepower.
Retained from the idea is Dodge’s Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust system, that the model describes as “delivering Hellcat ranges of sound depth.” The system makes use of two radiators and a collection of shapely chambers and audio system to generate actual “exhaust” noises, together with a definite (and loud) idle noise. You’ll even be capable of rev it. In case you’re boring, there’s additionally a stealth mode for the exhaust.
A Observe Bundle for the Scat Pack consists of 20-inch wheels carrying Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar 3 tires, sized 305/35 up entrance and an enormous 325/35 within the rear. The Observe pack additionally provides Brembo brakes with 16-inch rotors and six-piston calipers up entrance, the most important brakes on any manufacturing Dodge, and out there dual-valve semi-active suspension. Each Charger EV has a multi-link suspension setup entrance and rear, and even the bottom brake discs are practically 14 inches.
The Charger Daytona’s commonplace drive modes embody Auto, Eco, Sport, Observe and Moist/Snow, with the Scat Pack additionally getting a Drag mode as commonplace fitment. The Scat Pack additionally will get a Donut mode, which spins simply the rear wheels and can rotate both of the entrance wheels with out traction management kicking in, in addition to a Drift mode that provides three ranges of slip angle, provides a rear bias to the torque break up, softens the entrance dampers and stiffens the rears, and has the traction management permit for various wheel pace differentials. There’s additionally a launch management mode with 5 ranges of depth, and a Line Lock operate that locks the entrance wheels so you may spin the rear tires. Dodge additionally got here up with a brand new Race Prep system that preconditions the battery by warming it for monitor driving or cooling it for drag racing. And the infotainment system has a number of efficiency pages, in fact.
Adjustable regenerative braking can decelerate the Charger at as much as 0.3 g, however Dodge doesn’t say whether or not the vehicles have one-pedal functionality. The R/T may have a variety of greater than 317 miles whereas the Scat Pack may have 260 miles of vary, and utilizing a 350-kW DC fast-charger they’ll go from 5 to 80 % cost in beneath 33 minutes or from 20 to 80 % in lower than 28 minutes.
The gas-powered Chargers drop the Daytona moniker in favor of the title Sixpack. (Dodge writes that out in all caps, however I’m not doing that.) The Hemi V8 actually is lifeless, so the internal-combustion Chargers use Stellantis’ Hurricane twin-turbo 3.0-liter inline-6 and now have all-wheel drive. The Commonplace Output may have 420 hp whereas the Excessive Output model may have 550 hp — greater than the previous V8 Scat Pack — however no different efficiency figures or specs have been given. Manufacturing for the fuel Chargers will begin within the first quarter of 2025.
The Design
The 2024 Charger sticks very near the idea, although its proportions are rather less exaggerated and somewhat extra goofy wanting — I’m an enormous fan, however a few of my fellow Jalops aren’t. Plenty of the muscle vehicles that the Charger takes inspiration from are kinda goofy anyway. The obvious inspiration comes from the second-gen Charger that was bought from 1968 to 1970. It’s obtained a dramatic coke-bottle form and a outstanding greenhouse, with full-width wraparound rectangular mild bars at each ends, a trio of decrease intakes within the entrance bumper and a steep rear diffuser. The Daytona EV has what Dodge calls the R-Wing nostril, which is an air pass-through built-in into the grille and hood, and the Charger is the primary utility of the retro Fratzog logos, that are illuminated.
One way or the other, Dodge was capable of preserve the existence of the brand new four-door Charger a secret. Other than the extra doorways the 2 vehicles look just about equivalent, with the sedan getting a slimmer C-pillar however the identical rake to the rear window, and the identical entrance and rear finish designs because the coupe. Whereas I choose the marginally weirder design of the two-door, the four-door Charger appears superior, with proportions extra akin to these of basic ’60s rear-drive muscle sedans. The gas-powered Chargers may have barely completely different styling, getting bigger intakes within the entrance bumper and ditching the R-Wing in favor of a extra conventional grille and bulged, vented hood.
It’s a rattling massive automotive, too. The 2-door Charger’s 121.0-inch wheelbase is an inch longer than the previous four-door Charger and 5 inches longer than the Challenger, and its 206.6-inch total size is round six inches longer than the previous Charger and about 9 inches longer than the Challenger. Top is up by round two inches, and the brand new Charger is sort of 5 inches wider than the usual Charger and Challenger and virtually two inches wider than the widebody variations of the outgoing vehicles. (Dimensions have but to be introduced for the four-door, but it surely’ll have the identical wheelbase.) It’s obtained a strong stance, even on the bottom 18-inch wheels.
My favourite a part of the Charger’s design is what Dodge calls the “hidden hatch.” Each the two-door and four-door Chargers use a liftback as an alternative of a standard trunk, which is each approach cooler and far more helpful. With the rear seats up the two-door Charger has 22.8 cubic ft of area, 6.3 cubes greater than the previous Charger and 6.6 higher than the Challenger, and with the rear seats folded flat that area grows to 37.4 cubic ft. There’s a 1.5-cubic-foot frunk, too.
Eight colours will likely be out there at first: After Darkish, Bludicrous, Destroyer Gray, Diamond Black, Peel Out, Redeye, Triple Nickel and White Knuckle. A Blacktop package deal predictably blacks out the outside trim. Stellantis is nice about releasing new colours, retro sticker packages and different particular version designs on its muscle vehicles, and I’m positive the brand new Charger will sustain that custom — I’d like to see one with a Highway Runner–fashion nostril cone and rear wing, or an electrical replace of a Shaker hood.
The Inside
The 2024 Charger’s cabin has additionally caught extraordinarily near the idea, and it’s an enormous step up not solely from the previous vehicles, however from another automotive that Dodge has ever made. Additionally extra paying homage to basic muscle vehicles, there’s a low dashboard and sculpted door panels with “linework and texture” that Dodge says is a reinterpretation of the ‘68 Charger. The thick heated steering wheel has a flat high and backside, and the shifter has a sick pistol grip design and sits close to a outstanding begin button on the middle console.
A ten.3-inch gauge cluster display is commonplace, however a large 16-inch display is non-compulsory and appears actually cool inset into the sprint. The 12.3-inch heart display is angled towards the motive force, and it has bodily quantity and tuning knobs plus buttons for the seat warmth and air flow set into the display encompass. Just under the display is a row of seemingly touch-sensitive buttons for the local weather management. The Uconnect 5 system has wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, TomTom navigation, and Alexa integration, amongst different media apps.
Fabric and vinyl seats come commonplace — vinyl, what a throwback! — however don’t fear, you may get Nappa leather-based in a colour referred to as Demonic Crimson. Relying on what package deal you get, the Charger comes with superior efficiency bucket–fashion entrance seats which have a hard and fast headrest, and suede and carbon-fiber trim is out there. Dodge calls the 64-color ambient lighting system the Perspective Adjustment; it makes use of completely different animations, colours and depth to react to completely different occasions and wraps 270 levels from every door across the instrument panel. The infotainment system’s design adjustments relying on drive mode, and every thing is personalizable.
Every thing Else
One other main improve is on the tech entrance. Along with the overhauled infotainment system, a 9-speaker Alpine sound system with a subwoofer is commonplace, and an 18-speaker Alpine system is non-compulsory. You may get an augmented actuality head-up show, a digital key and a track-day knowledge recorder with an built-in dashcam.
Commonplace on each Charger is Energetic Driving Help, Stellantis’ Stage 2 hands-free system. Different commonplace security options are adaptive cruise management with cease and go, automated emergency braking with ahead collision warning and pedestrian detection, blind-spot monitoring, lane-keeping help, a driver monitor and site visitors signal recognition; a 360-degree digicam system, lively blind-spot cameras and parking sensors are non-compulsory.
Each new Charger will likely be constructed on the Windsor Meeting plant in Ontario, Canada, which presently solely produces the Chrysler Pacifica minivan. The 2-door Charger Daytona R/T and Scat Pack will enter manufacturing in mid-2024, with the four-door Daytona R/T and Scat Pack beginning within the first quarter of 2025. Additionally starting manufacturing in Q1 2025 would be the gas-powered Charger fashions, and the Banshee ought to go into manufacturing later 2025.
There may be nonetheless one main unknown in relation to the brand new Charger: Worth. In a digital backgrounder forward of the reveal, Dodge spokespeople refused to debate how a lot the 2024 Charger will value. We’ll hopefully find out about pricing quickly, and I wouldn’t be stunned if there’s some sticker shock, particularly for the Daytona EV.
