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Dodge Confirms Charger SIXPACK Will Debut This Summer

Dodge Confirms Charger SIXPACK Will Debut This Summer​

Gas-Powered Charger Returns With Twin-Turbo HURRICANE Power​


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Dodge has officially confirmed that its highly anticipated internal combustion engine (ICE) muscle car, the Charger SIXPACK, will debut this summer. The news follows an earlier report from MoparInsiders, which first broke the story in November about Dodge accelerating the launch of its gasoline-powered Charger models to meet the overwhelming demand for traditional muscle cars amid growing consumer resistance to electric vehicles (EVs).

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Dodge Confirms Charger SIXPACK Will Debut This Summer

Dodge has officially confirmed that its highly anticipated internal combustion engine (ICE) muscle car, the Charger SIXPACK, will debut this summer. The news follows an earlier report from MoparInsiders, which first broke the story in November about Dodge accelerating the launch of its...
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The new Charger Six Pack should have launched first. Now the Daytona is a global embarrassment (reports circulating that fewer then 100 have been sold) and the whole Dodge brand has been tarnished. Personally I see the Six Pack gaining traction for Dodge, but nowhere near enough to save the brand.
If it’s at all possible Dodge needs a new V-8, needs to move and rebrand the Hornet as a Chrysler where a premium price will work and fast track a new V-8 powered mid size Challenger to market ASAP and build it in America.
Without more products in various sizes and configurations for performance minded people who buy Dodges, like yesterday, things will get ugly fast.
 
While I'm all in for the Hurricane powertrain, and a 750hp variant sounds amazing, truth be told, Somewhere in the lineup Stellantis could bring back a V8 to keep the the crowd that enjoys that powertrain happy. The true problem is where would a V8 sit in the lineup. At this point if the hurricane would potentially fill the gap between 420hp and 750hp along with a Hurricane-4 EVO putting out around 315-320hp or more with a hybrid setup, the only spot for a V8 would be at the overly expensive end and it would have to be 850+hp so what would it be? A 5.2L DOHC Twin Turbo Hybrid perhaps? At this point now, they're not going to go back to a 426ci v8 pushrod blower setup, it's going to be something modern and then the question of what are they going to stuff this thing in? Hopefully not the Charger that's for sure. Maybe the return of the TRX or an STLA: Frame Durango SRT to compete with the Cadillac Escalade V or a mid-engine Viper to compete with the C8 Corvette. Point is, whatever V8 they're going to bring out it's going to end up being in a Halo model vehicle and it's going to be overly expensive.
 
This what I have been trying to explain where does the V8 fit when the potential of the I6 is so high.

You could go like Ford and GM Trucks
where it is a legacy offering. Doesn't offer really anything other than to say it had 8 cylinders and two valvetrains. Modest revisions, maybe Aluminum block... but not sure why if it legacy, detune or tune to help with meet emission charge a lot for the privilege of having an inferior powertrain.

Or also like GM and Ford in the vette and halo mustangs

You go low volume Bespoke, nearly exotic, hand build Halo models.... with modest actual performance value. Durability is ignored loosely based on Redeye engines, Mopar version.

What makes little sense is to do a ground up OHC/DI engine when we already know from the Maserati that it underperforms the I6.
 
Like it or not this charger makes a lot more sense for anyone that lives where it snows over the last one
 
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