Dodge Charger News
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Dodge gave us an early look at its redesigned 2015 Charger muscle sedan back at the 2014 New York Auto Show, but the automaker is yet to reveal the high-performance SRT version of the car. During the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles five-year strategy announcement just a month ago, we learned that a new Charger SRT will be launched for the 2015 model year, complete with a supercharged engine. As Jalopnik has pointed out, there’s a possibility this new supercharged 2015 Charger SRT will get the same 600-plus-horsepower engine already confirmed for the 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat. If this is in...
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Mopar Announces Accessories For 2015 Dodge Charger & Challenger
Owners will be able to customize their new muscle cars when they reach showrooms later this year.
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2015 Dodge Charger Debuts At 2014 New York Auto Show: Live Photos
Dodge has unveiled the dramatically revised 2015 Charger at this week's New York Auto Show. By its own admission, the company has reworked just about every body panel on the car, so while similar under the skin the new Charger projects a very different image. Many of the car's styling tweaks are...
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Dodge Launches 'Double-Up' One-Year Lease On 2014 Challenger, Charger
Dodge will allow customers to lease 2014 Challenger and Charger models for one year, then trade up to 2015 models.
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2015 Dodge Challenger, Charger Teased Ahead Of 2014 New York Auto Show Debut
The 2015 Dodge Challenger is coming, with a refreshed or new exterior and interior—and, possibly, a Super Bee edition. The first teaser images for the car and its Charger companion have hit the web ahead of its 2014 New York Auto Show debut. The images reveal the nose of the Charger (above)...
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Dodge Reveals Performance & Pricing For 2014 Charger, Challenger Scat Packs
Launched at SEMA last year, Dodge has now announced performance details and pricing for its retro-inspired 'Scat Pack', available on the 2014 Dodge Challenger and 2014 Dodge Charger R/T. DON'T MISS: Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6x6 To Star In Jurassic Park 4? Inspired by the 'Scat Pack Club' launched in...
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Dodge has issued a recall on its Charger muscle sedan because of an issue where heat from the headlights may cause the lights and other vital components to fail. The recall affects 2011-2012 Dodge Chargers equipped with halogen headlights, of which there are 43,450 vehicles in the U.S. alone. DON'T MISS: The Camaro Z/28 Is So Fast, It Outran Its Own Tires. Here's How Chevy Fixed It. According to Dodge, heat from the halogen-equipped headlights may cause jumper harnesses or the bulbs to fail, leading to a loss of light. The heat may also affect other vital components such as the nearby Power...
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Dodge Reveals Charger And Challenger 100th Anniversary Editions
Special-edition Dodges celebrate the brand's centennial.
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Retro Fire: Chrysler Revives Shaker Hoods And Scat Packs
At SEMA 2013, Chrysler unveiled two blasts from the past.
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2014 Dodge Charger Pursuit Sets New Cop-Car Performance Records
If you're on the lam, you don't want to see one of these behind you, because it's the fastest police car in America. At least, that's the takeaway from its record cop-car laps at the Michigan State Police Vehicle Evaluation Test and laps at Grattan Raceway. Scoring a time of 1:33.85 in the Michigan...
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Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, Challenger Recalled For Airbag Issue
Chrysler is recalling nearly 120,000 late-model vehicles for a potential electrical problem associated with the airbag system. The recall affects Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger, and Dodge Challenger models from the 2011 and 2012 model years, with a total of 119,497 U.S. vehicles (and 139,000 in all...
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Dodge Charger SRT8 392 Appearance Package Announced
At last weekend’s Eighth Annual LX Spring Festival, SRT head Ralph Gilles revealed a new appearance package option for the 2013 and 2014 Dodge Charger SRT8. Dubbed the “392 Appearance Package,” it will be priced at $2,495 and offered on a limited basis for both years. How limited?...
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High Gear Media contributor Joe Nuxoll took a winter drive across Michigan in the new 2013 Dodge Charger AWD Sport.
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Big Muscle Drives Its Host's Mopars: Videos
Big Muscle host Mike Musto knows a thing or two about cars and driving. He’s an NASA instructor, he’s run events like Bullrun and One Lap of America and he’s been a Mopar muscle car guy for longer than we’ve known him. In other words, he practices what he preaches. Musto has...
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2013 Dodge Charger AWD Sport Announced
Just weeks after announcing a new Dodge Charger Daytona for the 2013 model year, the brand is back with another new 2013 Dodge Charger model, this one of particular interest to buyers in snow belt states. The 2013 Dodge Charger AWD Sport promises to serve up a healthy dose of performance...
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2013 Dodge Charger Daytona Preview: 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show
While the original Dodge Charger Daytona, the winged terror of the 1970s, may have been a sales flop, today, there’s a lot of interest in original Daytonas (as well as the car’s Plymouth Superbird sibling). Dodge is well aware of this and is now celebrating the return of the legendary...
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Chrysler Teases (Some Of) Its 2012 SEMA Show Cars
Emphasizing the strength of its Mopar brand, Chrysler is teasing five Mopar-modified vehicles in advance of this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show. The five shown, including a Jeep Wrangler, a Dodge Dart, a Dodge Charger, a Fiat 500 and a RAM pickup, are only a...
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Dodge And Ford Up The Ante On Police Car Offerings
If you make a living as a getaway driver for bank heists, here’s a heads up: Dodge and Ford have both announced upgrades for their line of police sedans, meaning that you’d best be on your “A” game next time you go to work. Dodge has announced that all-wheel-drive (AWD) is...
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Some sort of hemispherical combustion chamber--heavily modified, updated, and optimized for its particular role, of course--can be found in any number of cars, from many brands; they've been used in an array of engines almost since the dawn of the automobile. But in the heyday of the muscle car Chrysler's marketing team made the HEMI engine something truly special, and its legend carries value even today. This is the story of the restoration of the last one built, a 426 HEMI in a 1971 Dodge Charger R/T. The restoration is currently underway at RK Motors, to be finished out in "better-than-new...
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2011-12 Chrysler 300 And Dodge Charger Recalled
Chrysler has issued a recall on its Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans from the 2011 and 2012 model years due to a potential brake overheating issue. According to Chrysler, performance of the electronic stability control (ESC) and anti-lock braking system (ABS) on the aforementioned models may...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran -
2013 Dodge Charger NASCAR Sprint Cup Car Unveiled
SRT Motorsports, the official motorsports division of the Chrysler Group, has unveiled the 2013 Dodge Charger race car that will compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series next season. The new race car was unveiled at a special event hosted at Las Vegas Motor Speedway over the weekend. In keeping with...
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Help Find This Stolen 1969 Dodge Charger
It's every car enthusiast's worst nightmare, having your pride and joy stolen from you. Unfortunately, a man named Les from Consort, Alberta, Canada is living through this nightmare right now. On January 14, 2012 a man wearing a winter coat, jeans, and blue stocking cap came to buy Les' 1969 Dodge...
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2012 Dodge Charger Blacktop: Because There's Never Too Much Black
Dodge is showing a Charger Blacktop at the Consumer Electronics Show. Will it see production? We hope so.
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2012 Dodge Charger Redline: Mopar Performance Outpowers SRT?
Just when we thought Dodge had reached about as deeply as it could into its Mopar-muscle retro-performance catalog, it’s pulling out all the stops at the upcoming Detroit auto show with the introduction of a new 2012 Dodge Charger Redline that finds some retro inspiration from 1970—plus a...
Bengt Halvorson