Chrysler Paint Color Gecko Green
Base price: $29,090 (including destination)
Price as tested: $36,165
Drivetrain: 3.6-liter V-6, 292-300 application @ 6,350 rpm, 260-264 lb.-ft. torque @ 4,800 rpm; 8-speed automated transmission; rear-wheel or all-wheel drive
Curb weight: 4,233 pounds
Assembly: Brampton, Ontario
The accepted Dodge Charger has been about for continued time, activity all the way aback to 2006, but what keeps it activity ability be the boundless cardinal of abeyant configurations that are possible.
There are a lot of choices one has to accomplish aback architecture a Charger at Dodge.com. There are eight trim levels. Four engines with anywhere from 292 to a tire-melting 707 horsepower. Rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. Thirteen exoteric colors (including some of the coolest choices in the automotive world). Five autogenous choices.
There are choices for actualization packages, technology, stereo and alike action abeyance choices. Amongst all trim levels, there are eight caster choices.
One affair for sure, buy a Charger and you’re absurd to see one aloof like it actual often.
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Dodge has done a lot to accumulate the Charger — and it’s belvedere mates, the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Challenger — accepted afterwards 12 years aback their introduction. The additions of an all-new V-6, eight-speed manual and a 2011 accommodate accept kept the Charger current.
As is archetypal with this platform, the council is a little too ablaze and the abeyance is a bit too compliant. Those attractive for a sportier feel will appetite to attending at the either the Super Track Pak ($495), the Rallye Group ($1,695) or the Blacktop Actualization Group.
A lot of buyers are absolutely absorbed in disciplinarian abetment appearance such as blindspot monitoring, cross-path apprehension and rear parking assist. Those appearance are included in the Disciplinarian Confidence Group for $1,095.
Chrysler offers an accomplished apartment of disciplinarian abetment appearance including adaptive cruise control, avant-garde braking assist, advanced blow warning, lane abandonment admonishing and lane accumulate assist, but it’s allotment of the cher Exceptional Group, costing $5,995.
We collection an all-wheel-drive SXT, the trim akin one aloft the abject SE. The SXT is geared for those who appetite the basal Charger with some of the up-level appearance such as dual-zone altitude ascendancy and admission to options that are not accessible on the SE, but don’t appetite to move up to the V-8 options.
Wearing a average red alleged Redline, this Charger consistently admiring attention. If you appetite anybody to apperceive that you’ve arrived, accede selecting Go Mango, Yellow Jacket or Go Green or TorRed.
There’s no accepting about the anticipation that the autogenous is boring. The 2011 redesign was an improvement, but the basal appearance of the birr is actual plain. It does affection appropriate amplitude for the accepted biking clutter and the accessory controls assignment well.
While active a leash of Dodge cartage including this Charger, a Challenger and a RAM 2500, we acclaimed a few glitches with the UConnect infotainment system. A brace of times the arrangement comatose and once, in the Challenger, the advancement camera froze with an angel ashore on the screen.
The exceptional bolt seats ($95) were adequate for continued trips, such as a 6-hour roundtrip to Michigan’s Thumb. The fast rear roofline makes accepting into the aback bench difficult. Already aback there, there’s appropriate legroom, but allowance is a little pinched.
A lot of bodies ability scoff, but the 292-horsepower V-6 has accomplished power. No, it’s not a 370-horsepower V-8, but it adjoin its V-6 competition, it acquits itself actual well. It has acceptable complete and catapults the car from the band quickly.
While Chrysler’s 8-speed automated manual is usually a accommodating partner, consistently accessible with the quick downshift aback requested, the one in this Charger seemed a bit reluctant. It ability aloof charge a computer update.
The Charger SE starts at $29,090 (including destination). The SXT adds $2,000. All-wheel drive is a $2,250 option. Redline acrylic ($595), Disciplinarian Confidence Group and exceptional bolt seats accompany the as-tested amount to $36,165.
Were it ours to choose, here’s how we’d advantage it. We’d alpha with the SXT, but skip the AWD. We’d add the Super Track Pak, which additionally requires the Plus Group (2,495), abacus exceptional wheels, achievement tires, rear esplanade assist, ability advanced seats and several added upgrades. And you can’t go amiss with the sunroof ($1,195). So optioned, this Charger would backpack a $35,615 sticker price.
Dodge has managed to accumulate the old boy accepted with the technology appearance and achievement that buyers want. A advanced array of styles, options and the broadest alternative of colors accessible on aloof about any consumer-grade car keeps the Charger a aces advantage a dozen years afterwards it aboriginal debuted.
Bryan Laviolette is a Detroit breadth freelance writer. Join the chat at facebook.com/MichiganWheels.
