The Dodge Challenger and Charger are useless, once more

The ultimate Dodge Challenger has rolled off the meeting line at Stellantis’ plant in Brampton, Canada, marking the top of the long-lived V-8 muscle automotive and its LX platform.

Accomplished on Dec. 22, the ultimate automotive was a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 in Pitch Black, a Dodge spokesperson confirmed to Motor Authority. The automaker would not share the destiny of this last automotive, so it is unclear if it’s a buyer automotive or can be stored by Stellantis for posterity.

The Demon 170 was the ultimate mannequin in a collection of “Final Name” particular editions constructed to have fun the top of the present Challenger and Charger. With a 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 producing 1,025 hp and 945 lb-ft of torque on E85 gas (and 900 hp and 810 lb-ft on E10 premium gasoline), it is arduous to think about a greater sendoff.

Dodge has stated the Demon 170 will do 0-60 mph in 1.66 seconds and pull 2.0 g off the road on a prepped floor with rollout. The automaker additionally claims an NHRA-certified quarter-mile time of 8.91 seconds at 151.17 mph. That made the Demon 170 the quickest accelerating and quickest manufacturing automotive cash might purchase. Pricing was set at $100,361.

Dodge confirmed to Motor Authority that it did find yourself constructing the complete 3,300 Demon 170s it aimed to. The Brampton plant was scheduled to cease constructing LX-platform automobiles on the finish of the 12 months no matter what number of Demon 170s had been truly constructed, so there was an opportunity the manufacturing quantity might have been decrease. Dodge started taking last orders for gasoline-powered Challengers and Chargers in July.

With the last Chrysler 300C efficiency sedan additionally having rolled out of the identical plant earlier this month (and Dodge Charger manufacturing having additionally wrapped up), manufacturing of LX-platform automobiles has formally ended after almost 20 years. It is the top of an period for Stellantis.

2023 Dodge Challenger and 2023 Dodge Charger Mopar ’23 editions

The LX platform introduced rear-wheel-drive, V-8 efficiency automobiles again to what was then Daimler-Chrysler within the early 2000s. It was first used within the 300 and the Dodge Magnum wagon, with the Charger and Challenger coming later. Whereas the Magnum had a brief life, the 300, Charger, and Challenger survived principally unchanged lengthy after different automobiles would have been redesigned or discontinued. Ford instance, the rival Ford Mustang has been redesigned twice within the time the present Challenger has been on sale.

Whereas the gasoline Challenger and Charger are useless, Dodge hasn’t confirmed the top of those nameplates. Any future successors will seemingly be EVs, although. Dodge already plans to launch an electrical muscle automotive within the coming 12 months, previewed by the Charger Daytona SRT idea.