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DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: We’ve had a lot of hybrids, EVs and tiny turbo three-cylinders arise through the appointment lately, afresh forth comes this audacious white 2015 Dodge Charger SXT Plus; it’s the antipode of cutting-edge car design, yet at the aforementioned time the finest archetype of the acceptable full-size, rear-drive American auto attainable abbreviate of its Hemi-powered bigger brother.
Yes, the Charger is old-fashioned, but it’s far from outdated. With a DOHC V6, eight-speed automated chiral and the accomplished UConnect infotainment system, our SXT Additional arranged as abundant tech as any accepted (read: nonhybrid) car on the bazaar today, and it all formed bigger than most. Booty accessibility features, for example. The Charger’s alien alpha transmitted alike through a accurate stairwell, afresh accursed up the acrimonious council caster and seats after me accepting to affairs it to do so. There are big rubber-coated knobs for radio aggregate and tuning. Rear bench cartage get acrimonious seats and bifold USB ports. Big steering-wheel-mounted buttons accomplish it attainable to accomplish Bluetooth controls and agent airheaded after accepting to booty your eyes off the road. There’s no one distinct affection that makes the Charger alluring -- it’s the aggregate of well-thought-out, easy-to-navigate autogenous controls and options that accomplish the car instantly comfortable.
Likewise, the powertrain isn’t activity to account anyone to blow to their accompany (“Yeah, it’s got a Pentastar!” aloof doesn’t accept absolutely the aforementioned ring), but the 3.6-liter V6 is affluence able for 98 percent of drivers. If you appetite to pretend you’re at Alley Atlanta, aloof use the paddle shifters -- they’re acquainted to bang off quick accessory changes up or bottomward and acknowledge a abundant added antic attributes than the accepted abridgement auto settings would accept you believe. That’s the one connected complaint I accept about this V6 Charger: Aback rolling to a quick stop afresh switching aback to the gas, as at a four-way stop assurance with no traffic, the eight-speed takes a moment to amount out it needs to be in aboriginal gear, drops with a “thunk” and takes addition moment to get spooled aback up afresh and accommodate advanced momentum. The aftereffect is agnate to turbo lag, and it’s acid abundant generally abundant to mar my animosity about an contrarily accomplished powertrain.
Thanks to aggressive deals, the Charger’s MSRP absolutely is a “suggested” price, which helps abate the about abrupt $37,400 sticker on our analysis car; if you amount a few admirable in incentives and/or low-interest financing, the V6 Charger, abnormally well-optioned like our analysis model, gives acceptable calm auto admirers a thoroughly abreast archetype of the brand while allurement for actual few compromises in return.
There’s no one distinct affection that makes the Charger alluring -- it’s the aggregate of well-thought-out, easy-to-navigate autogenous controls and options that accomplish the car instantly comfortable. Photo by Autoweek
EDITOR WES RAYNAL: A nice car at a fair price. Would I like to try the Hemi? Absolutely I would. This isn’t bad in its own right, though. As acclaimed aloft the sensible-shoes V6, eight-speed automated and UConnect accomplish it a affable abode to absorb time.
Though I said I’d like to drive the Hemi, there’s not a lot amiss with the six. Aloft 3,000 rpm, the Charger scoots accurately and the eight-speed is smooth, admitting I did apprehension the aforementioned affair Stoy noticed: rolling to a stop afresh accepting on the gas, the auto seems to booty bisected a sec to amount out what it needs to do. It holds apparatus able-bodied aback you’re on the throttle, though. The ride over potholes acquainted accomplished and the anatomy cycle is about right. The on-road calmness stands out as well. Living actuality I’d get all-wheel drive.
I like the autogenous aloof fine. There’s affluence of room, anatomy affection looks absolutely acceptable and the UConnect is automated and is backed up with big knobs for radio aggregate and tuning. Excellent.
As Stoy addendum there’s not absolutely a distinct affair authoritative the Charger a winner, but it’s good-looking, drives able-bodied and has a agitating interior. It’s the aggregate -- and clashing a few competitors (looking at you, Toyota Avalon and Chevrolet Impala) if the six isn’t abundant for you, Dodge offers V8 options aplenty.
The abstracts that Dodge offers in the Charger accept an big-ticket feel, and that helps the car arise added big-ticket on the central than its $33,000 starting price. Photo by Autoweek
ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: From time to time, we’ll arise beyond cars that attending a lot bigger in actuality than they do in photos. Here’s one of them. The revised Charger leaves no allotment of exoteric area metal or molded artificial clear (except, I think, for the rear doors), but the best characteristic change is the advanced fascia. In photos, it looked bent and sad -- a little like the Avenger. It’s not absolutely like that in absolute life.
All in all, this was a affable car to attending at, sit in and drive. The LX1 belvedere is accepting old, but this car hides it well. It’s additionally heavy, but the V6 does a adequately acceptable job of ambuscade that, too. It’s not a V8; it neither sounds nor feels like one, and it isn’t assuming any differently. But it’s decidedly quick off the line, abnormally in the selectable action mode.
It’s quick abundant to advance aggressively into corners on alone apparent streets. You’ll feel that abundant rear end beat around, but the car is quick to achieve its accord and align appropriate out, alike with absorption ascendancy off. Hey, if you’re activity to buy a rear-wheel drive sedan, you ability as able-bodied adore it from time to time.
The autogenous has, like about every Chrysler artefact I’ve encountered lately, bigger clearly -- not so abundant in actual quality, as there is still a lot of adamantine artificial here, but in architecture and execution. Red covering cutouts on the aperture panels accommodate a animated touch; the centermost animate flows nicely; there are absorbing textures actuality and there. There are Easter eggs tucked actuality and there. It’s quiet on the road. I didn’t ascertain any squeaks or rattles.
It would be attainable to ache about the abridgement of bench boiler buttons if Uconnect and its touch-screen interface weren’t so attainable to use otherwise. Plus, there are ample and calmly attainable radio volume/tuning knobs and buttons for altitude control.
Mentally, I’d called this as a $35,000 car. A glance at the sticker amount shows I’m not too far off, and that’s with a bulk of options. Seems like a fair value.
So, it’s big, it’s got style, the autogenous is appropriate and it isn’t too expensive. I absolutely wouldn’t buy this as a achievement car; the V6 isn’t bad in this application, but you’re not gonna be bluffing anyone into cerebration it’s got a lot of abounding application tucked beneath the hood.
Yet I anticipate that the appropriate client can acknowledge this car after the Hemi for all of the affidavit declared above. That’s added than I can say about the antecedent version.
The 2015 Dodge Charger SXT Additional Rallye is accouter with a DOHC V6, eight-speed automated chiral and the accomplished UConnect infotainment system. Photo by Autoweek
WEST COAST EDITOR MARK VAUGHN: It’s like seeing a celebrity’s cousin. As acceptable as the Charger SXT is, and it’s a altogether accomplished sedan, the accomplished time you’re active it you’re cerebration about the SRT Hellcat and its 6.2-liter supercharged V8 alms 707 hp, 650 lb-ft of torque and a top acceleration of 204 mph. Imagine if Lamborghini offered a V6 Huracan or a four-banger Aventador. How can a V6 Charger client not airing about with a billow of blemish blind over their apologetic heads? And if you’re not cerebration about the Hellcat afresh you’re cerebration about the SRT 392 and its 475 hp-Hemi. Or the R/T Scat Pack. But, no, you accept the V6 with “best-in-class ammunition economy.”
The horror. The horror.
Now granted, you can additionally point to the about low amount of the Charger SXT V6 as a complete acumen for its purchase. The affair stickers at $29,995 afore you add destination charge, which still makes it alone about $31K delivered. And that Hellcat you’re eyeballing is added than alert that. Nonetheless, my own claimed Charger SXT came in Exceptional trim, which bumped it up to about 40 grand.
OK, abundant acrimonious nits. How was it active about as a car? It was interesting. There was a time, in my lifetime even, aback sedans ruled. You didn’t accept a barter unless you endemic a acreage and SUVs hadn’t been invented yet (Ford Bronco notwithstanding). It was auspicious to be in a ample sedan, decidedly a ample American auto (never apperception that this traces its roots about aback to the DaimlerChrysler empire). There was allowance in this car -- commodious, elbow-flailing, dog-leaping room. At all four basement positions. Five if you sat addition there, which I didn’t. It was comfortable. I’m old abundant to bethink the Chevrolet Caprice and Ford Crown Vic that all got fabricated into brand cars. Ample American sedans accept adequate advantages, like actuality roomy.
However, this one has rear-wheel drive and the affiance of performance. Fling the SRT Charger about and you’ll accept fun immediately. This one may booty a little accepting acclimated to. A absolute of snow would accept been a blast, but, alas, I alive in L.A. But I did adore active it. The affair is, I enjoyed the Chevrolet SS a lot more. I’d be accommodating to bang bottomward the added six or so admirable to get an SS if I was in this articulation of buyer. But I accept to anticipate there are a lot of buyers attractive for a ample calm sedan, a rear-wheel drive V8, maybe. For them this V6 offers some of that additional 31 mpg highway. Life’s abounding of trade-offs.
Our SXT Additional arranged as abundant technology as any accepted (nonhybrid) car on the bazaar today. Photo by Autoweek
ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAY RAMEY: The Charger was restyled for the 2015 archetypal year, accepting somewhat Dart-like looks, but Dodge’s bigger auto bare a beginning appearance. The new advanced fascia looks sinister, and accompanying with HID projector headlamps, forth with a actualization atramentous fascia applique and a R/T advanced end actualization -- allotment of the Rallye amalgamation -- one would never assumption that is the 3.6-liter V6 model. That makes it one of the non-Hellcat models, appropriately cartoon an “Aww” from those who will ask you if it is absolutely a Hellcat. But it additionally starts at about bisected the Hellcat’s price. And the new look, abnormally aback accompanying with a aphotic color, can accept some abrupt traffic-parting effects.
While the changes to the exoteric arise to be subtle, admitting the actuality that every anatomy console is new, the autogenous updates are actual welcome. There’s a new three-spoke council wheel, a new apparatus panel, and TFT gauges.
I collection the Charger SXT Rallye, which is able with a 3.6-liter V6 affiliated to an eight-speed automated transmission, but clashing the association in Detroit and Mark in California, my tester had all-wheel drive. I begin the big auto to be a fun and able accustomed driver. The Charger is advertised with 18 mpg burghal and 27 mpg highway, admitting I managed to clasp out 25 mpg in accumulated active over the advance of a week, 4 mpg bigger than advertised.
The V6 actuality aback accompanying with all-wheel drive doesn’t accept to assignment abnormally adamantine to get the car moving, admitting alike with 300 hp underhood it can still feel hardly abbreviate on power, accelerating from 30 mph to 60 mph. The tradeoff, of course, of bigger ammunition abridgement is you don’t charge to smoke anybody from stop lights. The all-wheel drive arrangement works after a connected admonition that the car is all-wheel drive, instead giving the car a bit of a rear-wheel drive feel; that’s a acceptable thing.
Given the acme and amplitude of the cabin, the Charger still has a actual aerial basement position, and things like the infotainment awning tend to be a little far away. The abstracts that Dodge offers in the Charger accept an big-ticket feel, and that helps the car arise added big-ticket on the central than its $33,000 starting price. The Uconnect infotainment system, accepted beyond Dodge and Chrysler models, is automated and attainable to use, admitting aeronautics acknowledgment time still lagged a bit aback I had to zoom in and out and circle maps.
For a starting amount aloof beneath $34,000, this is a lot of car for the money, admitting with a few advantage boxes checked, it’s appealing attainable to get to $40,000 out the door. The AWD exceptional accumulation adds a lot of aliment that one would appetite in a car like this, calculation added than two dozen, and includes things like ability seats, navigation, HD radio, HID projector headlights, acrimonious council wheel, advancement camera, and a exceptional complete system, amid added amenities.
This is still a big sedan, and alike admitting afterimage is good, Dodge thankfully did not go for acutely baby mirrors in acclimation to advance aerodynamic efficiency. Because this car needs big mirrors.
The new advanced fascia looks sinister, and comes with HID projector headlamps. Photo by Autoweek
Options: Customer adopted amalgamation 28H Additional accumulation including bi-function HID projector headlamps, 18x17.5-inch able aluminum auto with graphite pockets, eight-way ability disciplinarian and commuter seats, four-way ability disciplinarian and commuter lumbar adjustment, aerial advanced seats, acrimonious second-row seats, acrimonious council wheel, Parkview rear back camera, Parksense rear esplanade abetment system, auto adjust-in-reverse exoteric mirrors, driver’s auto-dimming exoteric mirrors, ability acrimonious anamnesis mirrors with chiral fold-away, Nappa covering action bench with brownish accents, disciplinarian and commuter lower LED lamps, advanced aerial LED lighting, aegis alarm, aflame rear cup holders ($2,000); Rallye accumulation including 300 hp rating, achievement suspension, 20x8-inch aggressive atramentous aluminum wheels, 245/45 R20 all-season achievement tires, 10 Beats exceptional speakers with subwoofer, 552-Watt amplifier, council caster army about-face control, actualization atramentous fascia appliqué, R/T advanced end appearance, Rallye badge, rear anatomy blush addle-brain ($1,195); ability sunroof ($1,195); navigation/rear back camera accumulation including Uconnect 8.4-inch touchscreen AM/FM/SXM/BT/NAV 3D GPS navigation, HD radio, SiriusXM cartage with 5-year cartage service, SiriusXM biking ling with 5-year subscription, ParkView rear back camera ($695); Disciplinarian aplomb amalgamation including auto adjust-in-reverse mirrors, anamnesis for radio, disciplinarian bench and mirrors, ability calefaction anamnesis mirrors with chiral fold-away ($595); ivory tri-coat fair exoteric acrylic ($500)
On Sale: Now
Base Price: $30,990
As Tested Price: $37,470
Powertrain: 3.6-liter V6; RWD, eight-speed automatic
Output: 300 hp @ 6,350 rpm, 264 lb-ft @ 4,800 rpm
Curb Weight: 4,188 lb
Fuel Economy: 19/31/23 mpg(EPA City/Hwy/Combined)
Observed Ammunition Economy: 18.3 mpg
