Guide returns to Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat for ultimate shift

The Dodge Challenger is on its method out after the 2023 mannequin 12 months, together with the associated Charger, and simply in time for the ultimate 12 months, the Challenger SRT Hellcat will probably be obtainable as soon as once more with a handbook transmission.

The handbook was dropped from the Challenger SRT Hellcat for the entire of the 2022 mannequin 12 months. The explanation was as a consequence of a revised calibration being developed, a spokesman stated when the information was first reported in late 2021.

The spokesman stated the handbook would finally return, and Automobile and Driver reported on Wednesday that the return is going on for the 2023 mannequin 12 months.

The handbook is a 6-speed from Tremec. It continued to be obtainable on different Challenger variants just like the R/T and R/T Scat Pack, which characteristic 5.7- and 6.4-liter V-8s, respectively. The SRT Hellcat is powered by a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 rated at 717 hp, and in 2018 Dodge stated roughly 35% of all orders are with the handbook.

Dodge has many extra adjustments for 2023 to mark the ultimate 12 months of manufacturing of the Challenger and Charger muscle automobiles. All Challengers and Chargers constructed for the 2023 mannequin 12 months will characteristic particular goodies signifying them because the final of their variety. Whereas this may differ from mannequin to mannequin, all will include a commemorative plaque below the hood bearing the scripts “Final Name,” “Designed in Auburn Hills,” and “Assembled in Brampton.” Fashionable shade choices may even return, together with B5 Blue, Plum Loopy, and Chic.

Dodge may even provide seven particular editions with restricted manufacturing that reference traditional Challenger and Charger fashions. The primary six are the Challenger Shakedown, Charger Tremendous Bee, Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger, Charger King Daytona, and Challenger Black Ghost. The ultimate seventh particular mannequin, which will probably be based mostly on the Challenger, will probably be revealed within the close to future after lacking its November debut on the 2022 SEMA present. The explanation for the delay? Dodge has been blowing up engines in the course of the improvement.

Additional out Dodge will change to electrical energy, and that future has already been previewed with the Charger Daytona SRT idea unveiled in August and anticipated to spawn a manufacturing model in 2024. A high-performance model of the idea, dubbed the Banshee, was proven in November.