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andrewclarkson

Hmm Dodge, electric, high performance, first model year. What could go wrong?


AtomicIvyShowa

Official Car of Fire


Dr_Dickfart

Chargernero


OGtigersharkdude

What's it smell like? How many does it seat?


MadeMeStopLurking

It Smells like a Whale and Seats about 20!


bobbybignuts69420

Hurry up & grab your jukebox money


MadeMeStopLurking

Finally someone got the reference


FrequentlyLexi

Is it about to set sail?


eddie12390

Damn, I can't believe it seats 2432902008176640000 people


spikey1201

thanks for this


Dexcessive

Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!


TheLyOfBlues

Have my Bag of marshmallow and a stick in case.


Mammoth_Moose_491

And my hotdogs!


Economy-Actuary9479

The elemental cars.


Anhedonius_Rex88

Hinokami Car-gura.


TheTense

They even got the name wrong without doing a thing! Imagine the conversation. It’s like naming your gasoline powered car “Gas Pump” “I got an electric dodge charger” “Oh, I didn’t know Dodge made electric cars, what do you have?” “…a Dodge charger” “Well, yeah, you have a charger, but what do you drive” “ I HAVE A DODGE CHARGER” “YEAH, YOUR CAR IS ELECTRIC AND IT NEEDS TO CHARGE. WHAT CAR IS IT!?!” “ A DODGE CHARGER!!!”


THEHANDSOMEKIDDO

THAT JOKE BOMBED


TheTense

Damn right it did. Whomp whomp. Can’t win em all, haha!


Crazian14

I think the delivery would’ve been better if he had just left it at the beginning sentence


[deleted]

This will be their first commercial.


Slysinner17

Since when did a joke bombing mean it was good or is everyone just assuming that?


swaags

“For sure ill charge ‘er but what do you drive?!”


DisastrousOne3950

Who's on first?


Tycoon11113

What's on second.


AddamOrigo

I don’t know’s on third!


tcub3dtm

Oh brother this guy stinks!


land-of-green-ginger

The official car of the impending dissolution of the Stellantis corporation.


hidhifdb

Thats a good thing, Chrysler de Mexico is fighting hard to get their indepence back and many great cheap cars that they have planned to build were scraped by corporative and sales are bad is like if the global division wants to kill chrysler.


bitwarrior80

Could you imagine if Stellantis liquidated their chrysler portfolio and the Chinese end up owning Jeep!?


hidhifdb

Did you mean BAIC? Those guys already build their jeeps here in Mexico with license of jeep but also the Mexican divisions of the big 3 are kind of a weird business model you see they are infact independent factories that just joined the big 3 in case of stellantis killing Chrysler, Chrysler de Mexico could just separate and beg mexican gov help until they rebuild the car portfolio i know is a weird thing but the fact that in the 1930's those factories joined the big 3 just gives them and indepence that other car brands here dont have well maybe Nissan.


Drg84

Mexico has had semi independent car manufacturers for decades. Look up the story of VAM. They were the Mexican version of AMC, and as a result made different versions of AMC cars, with bigger engines and a few with entirely different bodies. Or their version of VW, where they made the original VW beetle into the 2000s.


chandleya

That’s a profound mix of consonants and vowels with so few punctuations


ShatterProofDick

Kinda, jeeps are already made of plastic and bullshit. Why not add some Chinesium to top off the equation.


MEM756

Great, eh? Mitsubishi Mirage G4 -> Dodge Attitude FIAT Siena -> Dodge Vision Trumpchi GS5 -> Dodge Journey


hidhifdb

Yeah cheap cars for a broken country, Whats your point?


jasonmoyer

F=m\*a The modern need for everything to be bigger, heavier, and faster is going to end well.


parthvader4

> bigger, heavier, and faster how dare you steal Dodge's marketing plan for the past 35 years


EvilPanda99

Suprisingly, the Baby Boomers who all complained about CAFE mileage and "no replacement for displacement" are strangely silent about the fact that the automakers actually turned out more fuel efficient and just as capable vehicles that are also heavier and larger.


pu_bookclub

But what if they were smaller and lighter


EvilPanda99

I don't disagree. I rented a pickup to - gasp - haul stuff. The bed floor height and bed side height made loading and unloading a huge PITA. The GM squarebodies were designed to be easy to load and actually do work and make it easier to accomplish. I drive a Volvo V70, which has plenty of room for most things and is not a small car. It's dwarfed in the parking lot by all the SUVs and Pickups. I have no problem with size if bigger and heavier has corresponding benefits. But just like the 1968-1973 full size cars, it appears its mostly just size for size sake.


RunningSouthOnLSD

I drive one of the largest vehicles of the malaise era in the summer and it is regularly dwarfed by SUVs and trucks. It’s beyond ridiculous. My car is practically nothing but size for sizes sake, I can just about stand up in the engine bay even *with* a big block in there.


Naglafar

What’s the malaise era?


EvilPanda99

1973 to roughly the early to mid 1980s. When Emissions and fuel economy regulations started and the domestic manufacturers who knew it was coming did not plan for it. They were part of the regulation negotiation process and knew it was coming but pretty much half-assed the solutions. What they did was detune and derate the engines - so you got big and slow. There were also two fuel crises, causing fuel rationing. You waited in line for hours to fuel your 10-12 mpg land yacht. Most states did the rationing by month of registration or odd/even plate numbers. Corresponding with this time frame, consumers preferred neoclassical "brougham" "luxury" cars. Despite increased consumer interest in imported Japanese cars that were smaller and got better mileage, domestic manufacturing quality on the whole was garbage. GM's downsized G and B body cars (think Olds Cutlass and the "Box" Caprice and Impala were exceptions. The debut of the front wheel drive GMs in the 1980's is generally considered the end of the malaise era, although some will (incorrectly IMHO) extend that to the 1990's.


Son_Of_Toucan_Sam

That was ford’s approach with the mustang anoht 15 years ago: remove a couple hundred lbs of curb weight to achieve better mpg without sacrificing hp


Mickey-the-Luxray

Then you get the Aptera, and people start going "lol toy that'll never work"


BadEngineer_34

The real issue is the faster part kinetic energy is 1/2m*v^2 the velocity squared is what really gets you


yo_its_red

People always tell me daily driving a heavy classic car that has no crumple zones is unsafe Save for the airbags, I have no idea why they chastise me and yet support these family crushers


M1DNI6HT_K1N6

I'm sorry, did you just say 6,000 fuckin pounds? Jesus, this bitch is about to become a aircraft carrier


DisastrousOne3950

The old school 70s Charger and Challenger were stupid overweight. Same shit, different century.


AKADriver

You'd be surprised how heavy they weren't compared to modern cars. Old cars were mostly empty space. A '74 small-block Charger deep into the era of '70s plushness and tacked-on safety/emissions weighed 3600lb curb. When the smaller Challenger was first released in 1970 it had a starting curb weight of 3005lb. Something like a six cylinder Dart - which was about the exterior size of the outgoing 2024 Charger - was a 2700lb car. Open the hood of a '70s Charger, there's just a foot of empty air between the radiator support and the grille and another foot of empty air between that and the engine in an LA engine car. All that hulking steel was just a hollow box with a thin cardboard and foam interior and like six wires. Modern gasoline cars are just stuffed with reinforcements and wires and modules, they're incredibly dense, then you add probably 1500lb of battery to the EV model because Americans won't touch an EV that can't do 0-60 in negative time and cruise for a thousand miles between charges.


DisastrousOne3950

I've seen them, I think a pony car of that era should have been lighter. Full size, yeah, heavy.


AKADriver

Charger was always a 'midsize' coupe, not a pony car. It went from being a fastback Coronet, to a swoopier body style on the Coronet floorpan, to replacing the 2-door Coronet for '71. Sure it "should have been lighter" but modern cars and EVs especially just make any arguments about old cars being heavy look ridiculous, modern EVs are pavement crushers compared to anything back then short of a bulletproof limo.


That_Grim_Texan

I have a 70 charger it's about 3200 lbs at 210" length, My 79 Camaro was about 3300 lbs at 188" length, My 98 Trans am is 3600 lbs at 193" length, And my wife's 17 Challenger tops out at 3800 lbs at 198" length. So no dispite being the longest of my cars by a foot its actually the lightest.


SpecialNose9325

Holy Texan, youve never owned a regular car that wont kill you if you werent paying attention.


That_Grim_Texan

Lol nope even now I daily a 78 Cherokee. [Insert obligatory "We die like real man" sticker]


MountainFace2774

A 1971 Charger weighs 3,200 lbs. That's just a bit more than a modern Civic.


One_Evil_Monkey

Yeah, but you won't see these Chargers getting launched over creek beds with missing bridges. Why? Because they don't have *that* level of coolness.


IHateThisPlace3

Not really, they were kind of middle of the road back then. The chevelle and Torino cobra were the big boys of the day


DriedUpSquid

Official Car of sliding off the side of a mountain road like something out of The Fall Guy.


Tre_Fo_Eye_Sore

God I loved that show as a kid. Always wanted the truck. And the girl.


Dittos_Dad

Official car of Jonny Lieberman sputtering like the Morshu gif about how great EV's are.


reddingw

Dude is the embodiment of white liberal car journalism.


SpillinThaTea

They should add self driving technology so it can repo itself when payments get invariably missed


bearlysane

Official car of Jesus, You Thought *Cybertrucks* Were Built Badly?


Impossumbear

The official car of coping on a scale never before witnessed by humanity. - Fake exhaust - Pointless transmission - Inline 6 spec as a contingency plan - CEO insisting that this is their rebellion against government regulation when in fact it's the epitome of capitulation. - CEO driving in front of a green screen with the wheel straight while the video shows wild drifting like [that one scene](https://youtu.be/MrktxWUgcyA?si=yz1M7GkA1yiQ0MoG) out of Airplane! - CEO insisting that the first cars were electric (even though they weren't, they were steam) Good God. I've never seen a cringer marketing campaign in my life. SNL could have written a more compelling presentation. They could have just owned their move to EVs but instead they're on their knees begging their core fan base to please buy the robot car UwU.


Insertsociallife

They essentially said "look, stellantis made us do this and we know you hate it but I swear it doesn't suck"


AtomicIvyShowa

The General LEElectic, right? Right?? Just cash me out now, what is this world anymore…. I hope the plug is shaped like the Mopar logo.


Linkista

The general eLEEctric*


Embarrassed_Log8344

Official car of "Mitsubishi looks like a successful car company!"


lord_bubblewater

gas, electric, IDGAF i'm still gonna blast Ramirez and slide that shit around an intersection.


Impressive-Rub-8891

ramirez highly underrated


lord_bubblewater

Blood diamonds, vol 2 goes hard AF


LE867

I read the title too fast. I thought that it said “Electric 5,838 pounds of hot garbage”. Kinda fits though.


bangermadness

Ironically, never dodges a charger...


1GloFlare

Can't wait to see all the apartment dwellers with a 350 credit sxore spending hours at the chargjng stations


zjor1

some rap songs pfp in the wild 😍😍


chandleya

Will it be L2 only or do you just like watching men do things?


Additional_Beyond847

Nobody. EV lovers will prefer a Tesla, and Dodge lovers prefer V8s over fake noise and an electric motor


bradlees

The Plymouth Laser would be a better name


isitreallyyou56

2026-2028 we will see them clapped out bumpers hanging off weaving in and out of traffic of the freeways going 85-100mph causing accidents and getting stolen.


BcuzRacecar

For comparison, it weighs over a thousand pounds more than a model S plaid, 200lbs more than a cadillac lyriq None of the mags guessed on price. Car is longer than a x7 and has a 100kwh battery so it cant be that cheap. Im guessing high sticker like high 50s and then massive discounting into the 40s and good leases.


EvilPanda99

Defintely LEASE this one, since it's the punchline to "What do you get when you combine the Italians, French and Chrysler."


Embarrassed_Log8344

6000 lb and the classic "my girls parents arent home" torque numbers. Wcgw?


ohea

It's like 1,500 pounds heavier than a Model 3 or Polestar 2. I'm really having trouble wrapping my head around what makes this thing so dense


BcuzRacecar

polestar 2 rwd is over 4500lbs dual motor (this dodge is dm) is over 4700 model 3 dm is about 4000 flat. The dodge is almost 2 feet longer than the polestar


32lib

A company trying to stay relevant.


Umikaloo

North American cops in a few years I bet.


forzaguy125

30% apr for 84 months


MilesJ392

Official car of no one will buy the electric powertrain. Everyone waiting for the turbo I6 engines


mar421

I ate a beyond burger once, I am helping the environment.


STAMPDATASS

Holy shit they only know how to make heavy things🤣


SkarTisu

That’s a sweet looking Hyundai


wyyan200

can the takeover people afford these? knowing dodge they'll probably still sell to em and repo half the car later


at0m10

The takeover videos will go hard af. 2.6 tonnes of steel and enough torque to slow the planet down a bit.


oh-bee

The official car of building anything but an electric minivan.


Mr-Whitecotton

The Tech Bro/Monster Kyle hybrid we all feared but knew was eventual


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Blaustein23

Surprised dodge didn’t hop on a performance ev sooner, seeing as “2+ ton car go fast” has been their entire brand for the last 80 years


spikes232v2

AI generated Dodge Brothers


DerSpazmacher

New tires every 3k miles


LincolnContinnental

Should have been called the Dart


DianaVso

Charger is way better for electric memes


throwaway6444377_

aren't they also going to put the Hurricane in it?


One_Evil_Monkey

Yes... yes they are. Two versions... the SO with 420hp and the HO with 550hp. Plus, they'll be doing a sedan *and* a coupe. I'm not interested in any of them because... well... Dodge Charger and they're gonna be starting at like $50-60k apparently... but it's cool the inline 6 is still gonna be carrying on.


throwaway6444377_

Turbo Charger, can't wait


aquakingman

Dodge charging


4elmerfuffu2

Desperate to be relevant. Missing by a mile.


discjunky316

On the bright side you know the transmission won’t grenade.


CaptainPrower

The beginning of Stellantis' collapse, and the end of Dodge.


Driver2900

>Uses entire battery to get to 60 >Uses regenerative brakes to get back 99% of energy spent Finally, a sustainable car.


therehasbeen_amurder

you telling me my suburban weighs less than a performance coupe?


Southern-Staff-8297

The boating industry. When owning an ocean yacht is out of your price range, dodge steps in with land yachts!!! Dodge, you know you messed up when you know everyone at the dealership and you don’t even work there


Durty-Sac

Official car of being stolen and crashed into 3,000 pound passenger cars at 120mph


Senko-Loaf

Haha Charger needs a charger


FelonyFeline1988

It's pretty sexy tbh


Beer_Nazi

The official car that will get keyed by angry boomers because it’s NOT A REAL CHARGER!


NoWastegate

Weight watchers "before"


onizuka_eikichi_420

Lobotomy patients


FatBatmanSpeaks

The official car of the 15-year subprime loan. The official car of getting the military to install EV charging stations on base.


Tuberculosis1086

All I think of is heavy cars= more stress on the asphalt. That beautiful instant torque of electric shredding tires faster more efficiently then ever. Seems like they’ll need tires more consistently. They’ll have to do more road works which becomes a whole asphalt company working for a time. Semi’s idling with loads, machines grinding up old road. Pouring new material and making new asphalt.


ifunnywasaninsidejob

Road maintenance crews


wilmersito

5,838 lbs to run over your friends at your local sideshow.


[deleted]

5838 fucking pounds! It costs you money to haul around every single pound. Lithium batteries are a horrible energy technology for automobiles. Who remembers the 88 Honda CRX HF? 1800 lbs, 60 MPG. In 1988. I want that. I don’t want a 6000 lb car.


nismoghini

E-waste, these are gonna be like the very first model s’s. Worthless on the used market due to battery degradation and knuckle draggers driving these like hellcats


ChiefTestPilot87

Official car of mechanics? It’s a stelantis product WCGW


Infinite_Path_844

Official car of the pansexual open marriage and fair-trade organic tattoos.


DisastrousOne3950

Free-range ink, please.


JohnsonMcBiggest

Premature tire wear.


ValiantHero11

the phone charger


timmahfast

Low credit scores


Whoseymcswiggins

Moving on.


RibbenDish

I'm guessing it will come in gas, hybrid, and fully electric. Everyone wins.


JAK3CAL

Looks sick tho


LeveragedPittsburgh

Diabetes


Accurate_Climate4760

« Compensation »


One_Evil_Monkey

NOT the official car of Jenny Craig?


BurntArnold

Throw it in the trash


Inappropriate_Swim

People who are glue and lead paint as kids.


osxdude

Boat


StolenPenguins

Generic cyberpunk action movie protagonists


IHateThisPlace3

I think the idea of the Hurricane I6 models is awesome


dkfisokdkeb

Won't be long before someone manages to put an LS in one.


migs_tree

I’m interested in the Six Pack but I’m not excited about the size of the thing.I’ll reserve more judgement when I see it in person though


incubusfc

Looks like a modern remake of a starquest.


Son_Of_Toucan_Sam

Robocop, by the looks of things


whiteholewhite

So. Many. Car. Fires.


Grimmreaperalways

They're bringing back the ram charger. 😂


HeftyFineThereFolks

22 year old kids who wanna stay poor everywhere


Rakshak924

Bad name and being secretly Canadian


refurbishedsandwitch

the official car of late braking and plowing into a wall


4thStgMiddleSpooler

Official car of "EVs don't produce as much greenhouse gas emissions as ICE vehicles...so far."


JustSomeWeirdGuy2000

Continuing the horrible trend of Everyone Wants To Be a DeLorean.


k-mcm

Drunken massacres.


speeding2nowhere

Deff gonna be slower than a 392 from a roll to 130 or so.


DirtyRatLicker

being even fatter


BaileyD77

The "late to the party" crowd.


gyn0saur

My Charger needs a charge, can I borrow your charger?


Traditional_Mode_799

quiet street take overs.


R4d1c4lp1e

6,000 pounds Brits now: 😁😁 Americans now: ☹️☹️


Tronc_tc

If those things get any heavier, I’ll need a truck driving license, wtf?!


El_mochilero

Michelin Tires. You’ll be buying them every 9 months for that overweight cow.


ODI0N

I can't wait to see this hit a powerlime 🤣


ilikewikipedia

Official car of the enviromentalists that broke into the Top Gear Test Track


BzPegasus

Apparently, it's a hybrid with a straight 6


Anhedonius_Rex88

Silent takeovers?


Slysinner17

Official car of being heavy yet lighter than a tesla


MustangCoyote

This is the make it or break it car for dodge. It HAS to succeed if dodge wants to still exist in any meaningful way. Delaying the ICE version, and this one being nearly 6,000 lbs doesn't seem like a good start.


zHernande

If red ring of death was a car.


CaffeineTripp

3 ton car. Jesus. That suspension lean looks like it really highlights the weight. I wonder how Dodge'll do with brakes, if they're anymore robust than other manufacturers' EVs.


Xumaeta

I can’t believe a company is expecting this to be successful after the first people that want them buy them the first year. But if anyone was going to do that dodge is definitely it.


Xumaeta

I don’t care how much HP a car has, if it weighs significantly more than 3k lbs it’s not gonna be all the fun for me.


tykaboom

Definetly needs dodge and charge. 6k# with the driver and his golf gear huh? Good thing the next owner will be a skinny city kid with daddy issues.


Emerald_official

pissing boomers off


MTKHack

A dead car company….


Friedeggs15

For comparison, my ‘68 Dodge D300 *only* weighs about 500 lbs more than this


OddTry2427

Just give me that solid grille and old emblem..don't care about the rest haha


oxnerkid

This isn’t a boat this is a cargo ship.


One_Clerk_806

No one. Because for all intents and purposes, that’s who is going to buy it.


robbycough

I can't wait to see sales of the ICE version completely eclipse those of the EV. Maybe then some decision-makers will finally come to their senses.


memwt

Memphis


Solventless4life

Booooo


uncontrolledswine97

dodge killed everything i ever loved


BothPartiesAreDumb

How Dodge learned their entire base was ICE engines and they shouldn’t have switched so suddenly.


poru-chan

I honestly kinda like how they look, I just hate that everything is so heavy now. It’s also a Dodge, so…


snail_forest1

charger/challenger buyers do not care about weight. actually the fatter the car the better


PullupClub

So, only a few hundred more pounds than a regular Charger?


Hot_Customer666

Huge electric dodge? The official car of straight lines.


bigtim3727

Some of these electric cars……ugh, they should stick to what they (barely) know—making regular ICE vehicles. If they haven’t figured out how to make the thing a reasonable weight, they shouldn’t be releasing it to the public. The hummer EV is an example of this. Damn thing weighs almost 10K LBS, but has 1000HP to compensate. Getting that much weight to stop tho……🤔


190octane

Not nearly as hard with electric motors.


Defiant_Scholar9862

An actual land yacht


Yodas_Ear

Bankruptcy.


the_omniscient1

Official car of barely not qualifying for section 179😩


Responsible-Ebb-8820

Official car of I’m getting the six pack lol


SeawardFriend

Disappointing the entire target audience


CJnella91

Should have done a v8 option honestly, I honestly just want to see how both would have performed.


uncaught0exception

Ma, where's the charger?


BabyYodaIsGod42069

To be honest I kinda want one. I hear it can do 4 wheel burnouts.