Dodge Is Nonetheless Determining the Charger Daytona EV’s Exhaust Notice

Again in August, Stellantis revealed the (deep breath) Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Banshee Idea. The automotive carries an absurd variety of names, however in some way that wasn’t probably the most maligned a part of its reveal. No, that honor went to one thing else: the automotive’s sound.

I ought to know, after all. I used to be a kind of early detractors, as a result of to my ears, the automotive’s “Fratzonic” exhaust simply appeared like missed alternatives. All mids and highs, no chest-shaking bass, and most significantly, nothing new or distinctive. It sounded prefer it couldn’t resolve whether or not to duplicate a Hemi or go full-on future, and determined to half-ass each.

It appears I’m not alone in disliking the Charger Daytona SRT Banshee Idea’s exhaust observe. Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis spoke with Motor Pattern
earlier this week and introduced the automotive’s sound up as one thing that the corporate is “nonetheless engaged on.” To listen to him inform it, the Fratzonic tone all of us heard at launch is neither the primary nor the final sound to exit that electrified physique: “We now have modified the sound of that automotive 1,000 instances, and we’ll proceed to.”

The query then turns into, what is going to it sound like subsequent? Kuniskis talked concerning the automotive’s “idle,” and the way completely satisfied the corporate is with its V8-like tone. If that’s in a very good place, then it appears Dodge is probably going specializing in the CDSRTBC’s exhaust observe because it revs out — good considering, provided that its high-RPM tone introduced a lot of the audial disdain.

With years till any electrified Charger hits the market, Dodge has time to find out precisely what exhaust observe will finest swimsuit the automotive. Perhaps, whereas the corporate is at it, it may well discover room for a pair extra names on that trunk lid. Absolutely nobody’s utilizing “Superbird,” proper?