2025 Dodge Charger Drive

Before we get into the charger, let's listen to it with the Fratsonic system either off or set to very low

So we're in the scat pack, right? There's two trips, RT and scat pack. RT is the slow one at 496 horsepower

This is the Scat Pack, so it adds a track mode and a drag mode and a custom mode

So each mode, drive mode has its own level of sound and throaty growl

We like the drag mode because it's the loudest, but they also drive have a little enhanced

driving dynamics as well. This is 670 horsepower, the 0-60 is 3.3 seconds

You ready? Yep. I don't think I was ready

People usually aren't I usually warn people Hang on to your phones

We did this in Chicago And we had a longer straightaway And there were a few times

The phones were flying Oh gosh But uh So uh That felt more serious than the uh

Hellcat did Yeah, well they say this is faster than any of their Hellcats

Now they plan to do not only a four version of this by the end of this year but also a gas version both two and four by the time next year So people will have their options right I think it makes sense to do an EV muscle

car. If muscle cars are about power, athleticism, and 40 growls, I think they did this right

But again, people will have their options. But I think they're going to make a gas version of this

They did a really good job. Handles like a dream. You know, most EVs are so heavy. The batteries are heavy

And just low center of gravity really enhances the handling. We customize this ambient lighting to any color, you know, on the rainbow as well on any given ride

She showed me that on the Wagoneer. Yeah. Let's see. Here we go. Keep going. Keep going

So the charger does look and feel really impressive

I think that the rumbling that you get from the drag mode really does help even if it's all artificial

Hold on here, we're about to go. And you can hear that it not imitating the V8 so much as enhancing the sound that the car

naturally has and it really is a muscle car looking car and it's quite comfortable inside

but what's kind of funny is that you can see it's got a lot in common with the Wagoneer S

which has a different personality. There were also longer lines for the Chargers

than any of the other muscle cars. People really had to wait for that

and that was on press days. Here's a Caddy swinging around

That's just for comparison. The chargers were really the only cars that you could hear to any large degree on this

electric car test track. Now again a lot of the screeching that you're hearing is not because the cars don't handle

It's because they're running on concrete, which just makes a lot of squealing

Fun as it is. And there's some variation in how hard the drivers are pushing the cars

I don think they push the Wagoneer S quite nearly as hard as the Charger

One thing to remember about the Charger is it is a full-size car. It is actually longer

than the last one. This one's only two doors. It's got a frunk which is the front trunk

The frunk is actually quite small. We've got a still shot of that. Sorry about the lack

of focus in these. I was doing some of them with a 35mm camera. It doesn't focus as well

You will know it when you hear a charger coming down the street

If you're wondering why I have so much footage of chargers running down the track

it's because they were pretty much constantly in use. Unlike, say, the Volkswagen that you occasionally see

there was a longer line for the chargers. There was always somebody waiting, and it seemed like they were always being driven

and they weren't resting at all. And it might be that the previous SRT trademark of a car that you can race all day

is still in force, even with an electric. Anyway, this is Dave signing out for Motels