Mopar Legends: 10 Most Significant Modern Dodge Muscle Cars
2019 Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody
The Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack was introduced alongside the Hellcat for the 2015 model year, but the 707-horsepower beast overshadowed the 485-horsepower budget brawler. The R/T Scat Pack was one of the hottest sellers for a few years thanks to the combination of big power and a small price, offering better performance than the comparably-priced Mustang GT or Camaro SS. Dodge kept the Scat Pack pricing low by using slightly smaller brakes and a fixed suspension setup rather than the big brakes and adaptive dampers of the SRT Hellcat.
However, for the 2019 model year, Dodge introduced the Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody.
The focus of this package was the wider body dressing, which allowed the company to install wider wheels and tires at all four corners. The wider rear tires helped to put the power to the ground while the wider front tires improved handling, but this package was more than just big wheels, tires and fender flares. The Challenger Scat Pack Widebody came with the big brakes and adaptive Bilstein dampers from the Hellcat Challenger, leading to a dramatic improvement in handling capabilities.
While the price obviously went up with these added high performance features, the 2019 Challenger R/T Scat Pack brought new levels of performance to the naturally aspirated muscle car while still staying well south of the Hellcat price tag.
2020 Dodge Charger Widebody Models
The Charger R/T Scat Pack with 485 horsepower and the SRT Hellcat with 707 horsepower made the big sedan the leader in four-door performance from 2015 through 2019. For the 2020 model year, Dodge improved the performance capabilities of those two high performance sedans by introducing the widebody package.
As is the case with the Challenger widebody models, the wider sedans included flared wheel openings, wider wheels and tires and unique suspension tuning. Of course, this package also includes huge Brembo brakes and Bilstein adaptive dampers, so it is an all-around performance sedan.
Although the Charger was already unrivaled prior to the 2020 model year, the addition of the widebody package made it a more formidable machine on the drag strip and on the road course.
The wider rear tires help the Scat Pack run the quarter mile in 12.4 seconds while the Hellcat model officially became a stock 10-second car. On a 2.1-mile road course, the widebody Scat Pack is 1.3-seconds faster and the Hellcat is 2.1 seconds faster around that same track when both are compared to their narrow-bodied counterparts.
2020 Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock
In the summer of 2020, Dodge surprised the performance world by introducing the Challenger SRT Super Stock as the first American production car with more than 800 horsepower. To be more specific, the Challenger Super Stock delivers 807 horsepower and 707 lb-ft of torque, which is unrivaled by any production road car from the American automakers.
The Challenger SRT Super Stock is engineered to be a better drag racing machine than the closely-related SRT Hellcat Redeye, but the Super Stock package includes a little more power, a unique suspension calibration and a set of sticky drag radial tires. Some confused this car with a replacement for the 2018 Demon, but the Super Stock comes with all of the interior amenities of the Redeye.
As a result, the Super Stock is a more comfortable daily driver while being the quickest stock production car since the Demon. More importantly, the Demon was a limited edition, one year model, but the Super Stock is not subject to limited production and it will be offered for at least the 2020 and 2021 model years.
The 2020 Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock is capable of sprinting from a stop to 60 in just 3.25 seconds and it will cover the quarter mile in stock form in just 10.5 seconds, with a trap speed of 131 miles per hour. However, with the adaptive suspension setup, this Challenger is as smooth as the Redeye on the open road.
2021 Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye
Finally, we come to the newest modern Dodge muscle car, introduced at the same time as the Challenger Super Stock. That is, of course, the 2021 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye.
Although the original Hellcat Charger has still not been challenged from another automaker from the United States or Europe, there was a tremendous amount of demand from the performance community for a sedan with Redeye power. For some time, Dodge executives played it cool, suggesting that such a car wasn’t coming to market because the competitors hadn’t beaten the 707-horsepower sedan. However, in the summer of 2020, the 797-horsepower Charger was introduced to the world.
The key feature of the 2021 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye is the 6.2-liter Hemi, which is equipped with a 2.7-liter IHI supercharger. With 797 horsepower and 707 lb-ft of torque, the Charger Redeye puts an even bigger gap between itself and the closest competitors from the European super sedans. With the help of the 8-speed automatic transmission, an array of heavy duty drivetrain bits and the 305-millimeter-wide tires of the standard widebody package, the 797-horsepower Charger is capable of sprinting to 60 in just 3.6 seconds. A quarter mile run takes just 10.6 seconds to reach 129 miles per hour and on a longer run, the supercharged super-sedan can reach 203 miles per hour.
All of these numbers make the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye the quickest, the fastest and the most powerful four-door sedan in the world.
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