2023 Dodge Charger, Challenger get final-edition paint schemes earlier than ending manufacturing

It is the tip 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 last cars with those names to rely 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 can be supplied by vendor channels, although it is going to be custom-built by exterior suppliers. Dodge will even resurrect its Durango Hellcat SUV for yet another mannequin yr, when initially it had stated the car would solely be bought for a single mannequin yr. 

In all, seven new particular editions can be supplied 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. Clients will be capable of verify DodgeGarage.com for availability of the thrill fashions, and the chance of vendor markups on the rarest of the uncommon Chargers and Challengers appears to be a certain factor. One of many seven buzz fashions can be revealed on the aftermarket and tuner SEMA present in Las Vegas within the fall—and Dodge will not even discuss besides to say that it’s going to “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

Other than the particular version fashions, the 2023 Charger and Challenger additionally will get revived heritage paint decisions, together with Elegant inexperienced, Plum Loopy purple, and B5 Blue; every car additionally will get a “Final Name” plaque beneath its hood. The SRT Jailbreak bundle can be utilized to the Charger and Challenger Hellcat. This bundle permits consumers to customise the whole lot from paint coloration 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 utterly overhauled of their decade-plus in manufacturing. The Charger was new in 2005; the Challenger, in 2007.

Stellantis, the father or mother 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 can be electrical automobiles primarily based on a brand new large-car international structure that can be bought with rear- and all-wheel-drive variants.