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Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Yahoo
Dodge Charger Sows Chaos For Arkansas Troopers On Independence Day
Read the full story on The Auto Wire A guy in a Dodge Charger Scat Pack gave Arkansas troopers a real run for their money on Independence Day this year. Dashcam footage of the chase, which involved quite a few ASP units, shows the guy really uncorked the performance on his Mopar muscle car, almost literally running circles around dashcam footage starts with our camera car waiting for the purple Dodge Charger Scat Pack to come along. Sure enough, it blasts into the frame and the trooper gives chase as they both find their way around slower traffic blocking both lanes. From there, the suspect gaps the trooper big time, then disappears on the horizon. In other words, the guy just smoked the trooper after ditching one right before. Thankfully, ASP has troopers stationed all over and they're looking for the distinct Mopar. One spots the suspect, who'd probably feeling pretty smug by that point, and another chase ensues once the trooper goes code three. It's the same story as before, the Scat Pack easily gapping the cop car. However, that trooper stays on the suspect along with some other nearby units. From there, the footage jumps from one ASP unit to another because none of them can keep up with the guy. But ASP is swarming the area in an effort to put an end to the dangerous chase. We see one trooper almost run into a bystander's car, thankfully stopping just in time, as well as other close calls. At one point, towards the end of the pursuit, the suspect dodges a Stop Stick as it's thrown right in front of him, so the guy has good reflexes. Funny enough, what takes out the fleeing Dodge Charger Scat Pack in the end is a roundabout. The guy must've not realized one was coming up, and at his breakneck speed he just couldn't navigate it, wrecking out into the curb instead. Image via Police Pursuits/YouTube Join our Newsletter, subscribe to our YouTube page, and follow us on Facebook.
Motor 1
26-06-2025
- Automotive
- Motor 1
‘I've Got a Scat, I Love It:' Dealership Customer Asks About a ‘Shelby' They Spotted on the Lot. Then They Found Out the Price
A woman recently proved that the customer actually isn't always right. That doesn't necessarily mean a good salesperson should correct them, however. Car salesperson Kate (@callmekate92) recently shared a taste of what she has to deal with on a daily basis with customers who think they know more than her. Get the best news, reviews, columns, and more delivered straight to your inbox, daily. back Sign up For more information, read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use . 'A customer just pointed to a Widebody Scat Pack under the awning and asked me how much that 'Shelby' is over there,' Kate says in a TikTok about the experience. Kate says she told her that it's $52,500. The woman wasn't having it. Kate says she replied, 'That is way too much for that car.' 'How do you know? You don't even know what it is,' Kate points out in the video. She doesn't appear to have said this to the woman. 'Not in the mood to argue today—if you say it's a Mustang, then it is,' Kate adds in the caption. What Kind of Car Was It Really? Trending Now 'It Saved Me Money:' Woman Goes to Discount Tire for New Tires. Then She Pulls Out Her Costco Card 'I've Already Made A Payment:' Woman Purchases Lexus RX 350 from Carvana. Then They Send Her Another One In a follow-up video, Kate shows the car. The purple muscle car is not a Mustang. It's not even a Ford. It's a 2023 Dodge Charger Widebody Scat Pack, specifically the Super Bee special edition with a 6.4 liter V-8. The vehicle, she says, has 32,000 miles. Kate says the Charger has suede and leather interiors, remote start, an 8.4' touch screen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and Alpine audio. Delivery is free in Texas, but they can also ship it to you out of state, Kate says. What's so Special about the Super Bee? This car was part of a special lineup of limited edition 'Last Call' models honoring vehicles that brought 'buzz' to Dodge over the decades, Dodge Garage reports. There were only 1,000 of the limited-run Chargers made: 500 Widebody Scat Packs in B5 Blue and 500 Scatpacks in Plum Crazy, like the one in Kate's video. The Super Bee was first introduced in 1968 and then again in 1971 as a Charger model. '[The Dodge Super Bee] reached legendary status in its brief original four-year run by giving customers an ultra-high-performance vehicle that could serve as both a daily driver and a weekend warrior at the track or drag strip,' Dodge Garage notes. Dodge discontinued the gasoline-powered Charger after 2023 in its move to transition to more electric vehicles , arguably making this vehicle all the more special. Carvana is selling the same model car with 1,000 miles on it for $59,590. Car and Driver reports that the 2023 Dodge Charger Scat Pack Widebody Super Bee should cost roughly the same amount. It actually would've cost far more than $52,500 if the vehicle was a 2023 Shelby, like the woman thought. That year, Ford purportedly only made 98 Ford Mustang Shelby Super Snake Speedster Editions. The manufacturer's suggested retail price is $153,140. Although the woman was wrong about the make and model of the car she was looking at, at least one person agreed that Kate handled the situation the right way. 'Clients are always right,' they said. Motor1 reached out to Kate for comment via TikTok direct message and comment. We'll be sure to update this if she responds. More From Motor1 Dodge Charger EV Owners Are Reporting Unintended Acceleration You'll Have To Wait Longer for the Dodge Charger Sixpack The New Dodge Charger Sedan Is Here. And It's Powerful The Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV Is 'Postponed' for 2026 Share this Story Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail Got a tip for us? Email: tips@ Join the conversation ( )
Motor Trend
04-06-2025
- Automotive
- Motor Trend
2026 Dodge Charger Daytona EV Sedan First Look: Now With 4 Doors
As expected, Dodge has officially confirmed the four-door version of the electric Charger is arriving later this year. Additionally, the company has revealed previously standard features like the Track Package will now be options, which should bring down base prices across the board for the 2026 Dodge Charger Daytona EV lineup. The sedan will reach dealers later this year and should help bolster sales numbers simply by virtue of attracting customers who want four doors, which is most of them. More Doors The four-door Charger EV is anything but a surprise. Dodge has been clear from the jump the Charger would come in both two- and four-door bodies to replace both the outgoing Charger sedan and Challenger coupe. The actual difference really is as simple as the number of doors, with Dodge explaining the roofline, hatchback, and front and rear styling are the same. Like the two-doors, the four-door will come standard with both front and rear electric motors and therefore all-wheel drive. Because the R/T trim level has been cancelled for the 2026 model year, all Charger sedans will be Scat Packs and will therefore come with 670 hp and 627 lb-ft out of the box. Similarly, because the sedan uses the same 100.5-kWh battery as the coupe, range is likewise a maximum of 241 miles. Dodge says it'll charge from 10 percent to 80 percent in 24 minutes on a DC Fast charger, but in our testing, getting from 5 percent to 80 precent took 44 minutes, so color us doubtful. With the same power and similar weight and aerodynamics, Dodge says the Charger EV sedan will hit 60 mph in 3.3 seconds. We measured a Charger Daytona Scat Pack EV coupe at 3.2 seconds. Being the same means the sedan will also come with the controversial 'Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust,' which is actually a speaker that plays V-8 noises. It also means the sedan will have a Drift Mode but will still not be able to do standing burnouts. Less Money? Because the two body styles are the same underneath, all the same options apply. Dodge hasn't announced any changes for 2026 yet, and 2025 options include the convenience-oriented Plus Group, the appearance-oriented Carbon and Suede Package, and the performance-oriented Track Package. Critically, though, the Track Package is now optional on both body styles. For 2025, it was standard (you literally could not uncheck the box) on Scat Packs and added $4,995 to the price of the car. Dodge hasn't announced 2026 pricing yet, but we're hopeful making the Track Package optional will knock thousands of dollars off the base price. For reference, the 2025 Charger Daytona Scat Pack coupe starts at $75,980. The entry level R/T model, which has been discontinued for 2026, started at $61,590. Dodge says 2026 Charger EVs are available to order now, but the new models have not yet appeared on the website. Deliveries are scheduled for some time in the second half of this year. Both two- and four-door EVs will come with a day of free driver training at Radford Racing School in Arizona. Gas-Powered Chargers Coming Gas-powered Charger Sixpack models, which feature a twin-turbo inline six-cylinder 'Hurricane' engine under the hood and no electric motors in sight are also still on schedule to arrive later this year. We're led to believe the four-doors and gas-powered cars will show up around the same time. Pricing for these models, which will also be available in two- and four-door bodies, hasn't been released yet, either. New Dress Up Options Dodge also used this announcement to introduce two new exterior design options for 2026. The more elaborate is a Fratzog stripe package which features two matte black stripes with red accents and repeating Fratzog triangles inside the stripes. The other is a hand-painted gloss black hood option.
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Edmunds' Long-Term Dodge Charger EV Accelerated By Itself, Which Isn't Good
Earlier this year, Edmunds spent almost $86,000 to add an all-electric "Redeye" red Dodge Charger Daytona to its long-term test fleet. Just as a reminder, many consumer evaluation sites like Edmunds maintain long-term fleets. The idea is to understand the actual ownership experience, rather than simply driving the vehicle around for a week and creating a review. The Charger Daytona is a big deal for Dodge, as it proposes to translate the uniquely internal-combustion legacy of this storied muscle car to the new age of electrification. Unfortunately, Edmunds' testers have reported a major issue: their car accelerated when it wasn't supposed to. They don't know why, and this isn't good. Evidently, the Charger started to throw some warning lights, lost regenerative braking, and then began to increase speed while the driver wasn't stomping on the accelerator. Luckily, the Charger didn't tap into its full 670 horsepower (Edmunds went for the Scat Pack performance package), sending the driver and his son in the passenger seat back to the future. Read more: The 2025 Land District Might Kick Off A New-Era Of American Moto I emailed Dodge for comment and will update when I hear back, but I have a pretty good idea of what's going on here. For the record – and Edmunds also noted this – owners in Dodge forums have claimed to experience this glitch, so Dodge knows about it. My following analysis is speculative, but based on my time at an electric vehicle startup. Cars have been heavily computerized for decades, but EVs are a completely different ball game. The key distinction is that internal-combustion technologies were developed and largely perfected during the analog era, with various computer systems bolted on later, as the electronic architecture of vehicles evolved. Modern EVs, by contrast, have always been digital, with computer modules controlling just about everything. It's probably a software issue, because the whole thing is run by software. As our president so eloquently put it while checking out a Tesla Model S back in March, "everything's computer." Back in the day, if something glitched on your old gas-burning car, you went to the dealership and they plugged in some proprietary diagnostics to fix it. But in 2025, EVs are connected 24/7, so chances are pretty good that Dodge has accessed the vehicle logs for Edmunds' Charger and is remotely evaluating what went wrong. Edmunds performed a basic reset to regain full control of their Charger (not a full reboot, however). The problem hasn't recurred. But if you visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's site and review the page on the Dodge Charger EV, you'll find that although there have been no complaints, nor any investigations or recalls announced, there have been 25 manufacturer communications, mainly regarding the electrical system. The root cause here is likely some sort of software conflict, or an electrical system miscommunication with a critical drivetrain component and triggering an error or series of errors. The startup I worked for wrestled with these problems, and we were hardly alone: despite copious presale testing, required by regulators for certification, it seems that almost every EV endures software bugs. Even Tesla, pioneers of over-the-air updates to solve problems, had a gaggle of glitches and recalls with the Cybertruck. The good news is that the fix is often quite straightforward, a matter of reprogramming one supplier's software to get along better with another's. If the fix isn't at the level of a simple software update, then the automaker will typically advise NHTSA and initiate a recall. Not that I'm making excuses for Dodge; unintended acceleration is scary! But we are only just entering the era of the "software defined vehicle" and are at the early stages of learning what goes wrong with EVs. And because they are so mechanically simple, it's often the digital code that is causing trouble. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Motor 1
03-06-2025
- Automotive
- Motor 1
Dodge Charger EV Owners Are Reporting Unintended Acceleration
Two words an automaker never wants to hear: Unintended acceleration. It nearly sunk Audi in America in the 1980s, and was a huge scandal for Toyota in the in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Both cases were totally unfounded, caused by user error, damaged both brands' reputation regardless. Now, a handful of Charger Daytona EV owners, including have reported unintended acceleration in their cars. Edmunds's 2024 Charger Daytona Scat Pack, which it owns and reports on as part of its long-term test fleet, had a case of totally unexplained unintentional acceleration in the hands of one of its writers . The writer reported seeing a number of warning lights, and an indication that the car was going into a "low-power" mode, what seems to be a limp mode that allows you to drive the car slowly in case of a major fault. When depressing the accelerator pedal, the car accelerated "very sluggishly" according to Edmunds, but when lifting off the pedal, instead of slowing down with regenerative braking, the car continued to accelerate. The writer estimates at a rate of about 1 mph per second. The writer's son captured a video of the incident, and you can see the driver's foot away from the pedals, yet the car still accelerating. To slow for a stop, the driver reported having to press down on the brake pedal harder than normal, but the car did come to a stop. But when he lifted back off the brake pedal, the car crept forward as normal, than continued accelerating up to 45 mph without any accelerator pedal input. After parking and power cycling the car—shutting it off, locking the doors, waiting 10 seconds, then getting back in—the problem went away. We asked Dodge if this is a problem it knows about, and if it is a problem, if there is a fix on its way. Instead of answering either question directly, a Stellantis person sent over the following statement: "In the rare event of an accelerator-pedal fault, Stellantis has implemented a 'drive-by-brake' safety feature, which allows the driver to control speed through the brake pedal. In this instance, the feature worked as intended, and the driver was able to safely maneuver the vehicle off the road. This feature has been in Stellantis internal-combustion-engine vehicles for many years and has been carried over to battery-electric vehicles." Does this statement acknowledge this incident was a fault on the car's end, and not simple driver error? We reached out asking for clarification and will update this piece when necessary. As Edmunds points out, supposed Charger Daytona owners report on a forum of similar issues , including one where the poster says the unintended acceleration led to an accident. Obviously, this is all anecdotal, and without looking at data from the car, it's impossible to say definitively whether the Charger Daytona has a genuine issue. But, Edmunds is a reputable outlet, and its video and reportage is a strong indication that the car may actually have a problem. The publication, for its part, says the Charger Daytona is going back to the dealer "posthaste." So far, the Charger Daytona has been a disaster for an ailing Stellantis . Muscle-car fans have by and large made it clear that they want Hemi V-8s, not EVs, and there are already huge discounts on the Charger Daytona —never a good sign for a new model. Plus, the Charger Daytona rides on the STLA Large platform that already underpins the Jeep Wagoneer S, and a ton of future vehicles, including the Jeep Recon, and next-gen Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio. If this unintended acceleration is indeed a vehicle fault, it casts doubts on Stellantis' ability to deliver quality EVs. More on the Charger You'll Have To Wait Longer for the Dodge Charger Sixpack The Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV Is 'Postponed' for 2026 Get the best news, reviews, columns, and more delivered straight to your inbox, daily. back Sign up For more information, read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use . Share this Story Facebook X LinkedIn Flipboard Reddit WhatsApp E-Mail Got a tip for us? Email: tips@ Join the conversation ( )
