Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept car
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DETROIT — Dodge on Wednesday unveiled a new concept car known as the Charger Daytona SRT as a preview of its first all-electric muscle car, anticipated in 2024.
The two-door coupe is the first have a look at what the forthcoming car, which can replace Dodge’s present gas-powered Challenger and Charger muscle cars, is predicted to seem like. The car additionally options a number of new applied sciences meant to make it really feel and drive like a standard muscle car.
“This car, we imagine, will redefine American muscle,” Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis, who’s identified for over-the-top autos akin to the model’s 700-plus horsepower Hellcat models, stated throughout a media briefing.
The concept car appears like a futuristic, but retro, model of the current Dodge Challenger with a extra aerodynamic, however muscular, design. Most notably, the entrance finish options a big opening for air to cross by way of, which the firm is asking a “R-Wing.”
The “R-Wing” of the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept car incorporates a Fratzog emblem in the center of it.
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The entrance wing in addition to the car’s “Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust” and “eRupt” multispeed transmission – names becoming for “Back to the Future” films – are patent pending, in keeping with the firm.
The multispeed transmission and exhaust are particularly distinctive, since electric autos drive in just one “gear” and are comparatively silent apart from required security noises.
‘Not a science mission’
Automakers routinely use concept autos to gauge buyer curiosity or present the future route of a car or model. The autos are usually not meant to be offered to customers.
However, Kuniskis says a lot of the Charger Daytona SRT’s applied sciences and design components are anticipated to make it right into a manufacturing car.
“This is just not a science mission,” he stated. “It appears like a Dodge, appears like a Dodge and drives like a Dodge.”
Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept car
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Kuniskis stated the 2024 manufacturing electric muscle car is predicted to launch with three totally different efficiency ranges however finally broaden to 9. The concept car options an 800-volt “Banshee” propulsion system.
Dodge declined to launch anticipated efficiency metrics for the concept car or the yet-to-be-named manufacturing muscle car.
The forthcoming EV in 2024 will replace Dodge’s gas-powered Charger and Challenger muscle vehicles, which the automaker on Monday stated could be discontinued at the end of 2023.
New tech
The car’s patent pending applied sciences are supposed to retain the sound and driving traits of Dodge’s present gas-powered Charger and Challenger for any forthcoming all-electric muscle vehicles, in keeping with Kuniskis.
While EVs may be quick with a “linear acceleration” that produces astonishing 0-60 mph times, they usually lack the driving dynamics that many efficiency car house owners get pleasure from. It’s an issue auto executives have privately been trying to resolve as the trade transitions to EVs.
Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept car
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“We stated, ‘OK, if it will occur, let’s do it like Dodge,'” Kuniskis stated. “We’re not going to go there and do the similar factor. Dodge goes to get misplaced if we attempt to do the similar factor as everyone else.”
The exhaust system on the concept Charger, which Kuniskis stated is as loud as a Hellcat engine, pushes sound by way of an amplifier and tuning chamber positioned at the rear of the car. He in contrast it to a wind organ with chambers and pipes.
The eRupt know-how, he stated, is a multispeed transmission “with electro-mechanical shifting” that “delivers distinctive shift factors” like right now’s muscle and efficiency vehicles.
The improvements could assist Dodge retain its efficiency traits in addition to its patrons, who’ve purchased thousands and thousands of Challengers and Chargers over the years, in keeping with Stephanie Brinley, principal analyst at S&P Global.
“It is precisely what you’ll anticipate a Dodge EV two-door to be,” she stated. “It appears the half, it sounds the half and it is fairly thrilling.”
Heritage cues
Much of the concept car was impressed by Stellantis-owned Dodge’s historical past, in keeping with officers. The identify itself — Charger Daytona SRT — is made up of nomenclatures Dodge has generally used.
The “R-Wing” was impressed by the “nostril cone” entrance finish of the 1969-1970 Charger Daytona. And whereas right now’s Charger is a four-door car, the authentic generations starting in the Nineteen Sixties have been two-door, like the concept.
Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept car
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The “Fratzonic” exhaust is a reference to a emblem Dodge used from 1962 by way of 1976 known as the “Fratzog,” — a phrase made up by a designer. It incorporates a break up deltoid product of three arrowhead shapes that type a three-pointed star.
Kuniskis stated a few of the design components and applied sciences are anticipated to affect the electric vary of the autos, nevertheless it’s not one thing Dodge is essentially apprehensive about.
“Don’t care; it is badass … it is a muscle car,” Kuniskis stated.