The company has announced the debut date of the new product: the premiere of the next generation American muscle car will take place next week, March 5.
The history of the Dodge Charger began back in 1966, the model was produced intermittently, and over the past years it has already changed generations six times. The seventh generation sedan, produced since 2011, ended its career at the end of last year: then the final copy rolled off the assembly line of the plant in Brampton (Canada), it was a representative of the “farewell” Scat Pack Widebody series. Now the brand, owned by the auto giant Stellantis, is preparing for the imminent presentation of the eighth generation Dodge Charger.
Teaser of the eighth generation Dodge Charger
The company said that the new product will debut on March 5, 2024, the presentation will be held online. The announcement is accompanied by the first teaser of the eighth-generation Dodge Charger. The darkened image shows a slightly blurred silhouette of a car with a sloping hood and a horizontal element on the front with LED strips of running lights and a new luminous logo.
It is worth noting that the appearance of the new product is no longer a secret: In the middle of last month, the Dodge brand published photos of the pre-production Charger of the new generation on social networks. Judging by those pictures, the pre-production version from the outside is practically no different from the Charger Daytona SRT concept, which was presented in August 2022.
Pictured: prototype of the new Dodge Charger
There are no photos or teasers of the interior of the new Dodge Charger yet. Let us remind you that the concept’s interior had four individual chairs with carbon decorative inserts. The front panel features a large curved virtual instrument panel (16-inch diagonal), as well as a 12.3-inch central touchscreen for the multimedia system. Most of the physical buttons have been replaced by touch panels.
It was previously reported that the successor to the Dodge Charger, which is based on the STLA Large modular platform from the Stellantis portfolio, will receive an all-electric “filling” » As Kolesa.ru reported earlier, the “green” new Charger will be offered with several electric powertrains to choose from, 400- and 800-volt; it is expected that the power of the all-wheel drive top version will be about 900 hp.
Last fall, foreign media reported that the “eighth” Dodge Charger would also have an internal combustion engine option. According to preliminary data, this modification will have a 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder Hurricane gasoline engine under the hood. Official details about the “filling” of the future model will become known later.
Recall that the retired sports sedan the base one was a 304-horsepower 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine (maximum torque — 358 Nm). Mid- and top-end versions were offered with V8 HEMI options of 5.7, 6.4 and 6.2 liters, maximum output is 818 hp. (959 Nm). It was paired with an eight-speed hydromechanical automatic transmission, driving the rear wheels.
Last summer it became known that Dodge could revive the Stealth name to replace the Durango crossover. Then it was assumed that such an SUV would be equipped with a hybrid unit based on the 3.0-liter Hurricane twin-turbo six.