We had simply completed telling you that Dodge was closing orders ceaselessly on its Charger sedan and Challenger muscle automobile subsequent week when a consultant from Mopar wedged a (metaphorical) foot in our closing workplace door with an announcement.
There’s a last-minute addition to the plan.
“For the primary time,” Dodge’s efficiency elements division says, “Mopar is producing two matching efficiency automobiles for the annual factory-vehicle customization program.” The Mopar Customized Store will produce simply 220 copies every of a Mopar 2023 Dodge Challenger and Charger particular version.
Provides About $4K To The Worth…Technically
Every package deal provides $3,995 to the worth of the automobile it’s based mostly on. They’re solely out there on Scat Pack Widebody fashions. These come at an asking worth of $54,260 (Challenger) and $56,325 (Charger) with out the enhancements.
However we have to warn you – these are restricted editions out there after the deadline to purchase a pair of canceled automobiles. You gained’t discover them for the listed worth.
Manufacturing begins in September, with deliveries anticipated to start in October, Mopar says. However a spokesperson tells us you gained’t be capable of order one after the deadline. As an alternative, patrons ought to hunt for the sellers which have them.
“The plan is for all 440 automobiles to be allotted to sellers by July 31. clients will be capable of discover a hyperlink to the sellers receiving these fashions on the Horsepower Locator instrument on DodgeGarage within the close to future,” Mopar tells us.
With so few of every deliberate, they’ll go quick.
Scat Pack Plus Vibe
The automobiles are based mostly on the Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Widebody fashions however get “distinctive, performance-oriented appears in and out.”
Inside is a carbon suede package deal with real carbon fiber inside accents and a suede headliner. An Alpine audio group enhances leisure. They get a heated, flat-bottom, leather-wrapped steering wheel, heated and ventilated entrance seats, brilliant pedals, and a serialized Mopar instrument-panel badge marking their construct quantity.
Exterior, it means Pitch Black Clear Coat with “distinctive matte-black graphics and Mopar Blue tracer stripes alongside the hood, roof, and decklid.” Mopar blue grille badges seem, and the identical coloration brake calipers and valve stem caps stand out towards carbon-black wheels. “An unique all-new carbon-fiber decklid spoiler is getting used for the primary time and is on the market solely on Mopar ‘23 fashions,” the corporate says.
Additionally they embrace just a few efficiency upgrades, similar to an SRT-tuned Widebody competitors suspension with Bilstein 3-mode adaptive damping and Pirelli P Zero summer season efficiency tires.
Energy comes from the 485-horsepower 392 HEMI V8. The Challenger will get a 6-speed guide transmission from Tremec as customary. An 8-speed automated from TorqueFlite is customary on the Charger and non-obligatory on the Challenger.
