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30/12/2024 3:40 pm
...this AI rendering was the new Challenger?
Dodge Challenger 2025
Overview
Body and chassis
Class: Muscle car (S)
Body style: 2-door notchback coupe
Layout: Front-engine, all-wheel-drive (SIXPACK)
Dual-motor, four-wheel-drive (R/T)
Tri-motor, four-wheel-drive (SRT Banshee)
Platform:STLA Large
Power train
Engine
Petrol: 3.0 L Hurricane I6 turbo
420–550 hp (310–410 kW)
Electric motor
2× Permanent magnet synchronous motors (R/T & Scat Pack)
496–690 hp (370–515 kW)] 400-volt
3× Permanent magnet synchronous motors (SRT Banshee)
1,320 hp (980 kW) with Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust 800-volt
Transmission: 8-speed ZF TorqueFlite 850RE 2nd automatic (SIXPACK)
Battery 100.5 kWh Li-NMC
Range: 317 mi (510 km) (R/T)
260 mi (418 km) (Scat Pack)
Unknown (SRT Banshee)
John Kuvakas
Warrenton, VA
30/12/2024 4:06 pm
It looks good but I would just have a modern Chrysler/Dodge V-8 in it and just RWD saving on cost and complexity.
30/12/2024 4:07 pm
No interest in electric cars, don't care how fast it is or how pretty it is. If it requires a charge, then its a pass for me, thank you.
John Bono
North Jersey
30/12/2024 4:30 pm
No interest in electric cars, don't care how fast it is or how pretty it is. If it requires a charge, then its a pass for me, thank you.
Same here…I will never own, drive or even “passenge” an EV…gimme 100% fossil fuel till the day I die…
Zeeky Banutski
The People’s Republic of Maryland
30/12/2024 4:30 pm
John K. Gorgeous bodywork. (Don't hit a bump - look at the fender rim clearance - non existent)
John B. I love ya brother and share your electric views. But if not mistaken (Easy to do since I am the furthest thing from an electric car expert) this is a hybrid where the gas (petrol) motor, supplies electric power to the electric engines??????
30/12/2024 5:49 pm
If it requires a charge, then its a pass for me, thank you.
HA! Even brand-new ICE vehicles need charging if they're not driven much.
Sitting idle 3-5 days a week will eventually kill the battery (because of all that current-draining software ) if you don't use a Battery Tender - trickle charge occasionally. In fact, most newer vehicles have a second, smaller set of vertical battery posts in which a trickle charger pigtail can be permanently attached.
As all of you know.... we're not driving cars (ICE, EV PHEV, etc.. ) any longer, they're smartphones with steering wheels. 🙄 😮
30/12/2024 6:41 pm
I don't view a battery maintainer as a charging station.If it requires a charge, then its a pass for me, thank you.
HA! Even brand-new ICE vehicles need charging if they're not driven much.
Sitting idle 3-5 days a week will eventually kill the battery (because of all that current-draining software ) if you don't use a Battery Tender - trickle charge occasionally. In fact, most newer vehicles have a second, smaller set of vertical battery posts in which a trickle charger pigtail can be permanently attached.
As all of you know.... we're not driving cars (ICE, EV PHEV, etc.. ) any longer, they're smartphones with steering wheels. 🙄 😮
John Bono
North Jersey
30/12/2024 7:10 pm
I don't view a battery maintainer as a charging station.
Agreed. However, I'm pretty lazy.... it's the "effort" I object to. I suspect the day will come when simply driving on any road (that charges batteries ) or parking over a charging device (these are available now ) will suffice.
"Maintenace free" and "No action required" are among my favorite phrases. 😏 😏
31/12/2024 5:57 am
I'LL NEVER OWN AN ELECTIC CAR!
Our phones are headache enough having to be charged all the time, I sure don't need to be stranded in BFE someplace and need to have my car charged.
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
31/12/2024 7:31 am
@sizedoesmatter John and Terry I'm with you both. To top it off, yesterday I had the misfortune to see two Cybertrucks on the road. For the life of me, I don't know the attraction of driving the ugliest thing on wheels. What really upsets me is that my tax dollars are going to help support those who want this EV garbage. Anybody with a brain knows the environmental impact these vehicles will have on mother earth when they are old enough to wear out and have to be junked.
31/12/2024 10:41 am
I'm not particularly an EV fan. If I ever do buy one it will be a fair bit into the future as the technology is relatively new and the inevitable improvements/upgrades of the near future will render the current ones we are discussing redundant and very much depreciated.
01/01/2025 12:24 pm
John, Sleek body with complex, expensive power plants. Not sure what I think about hybrids or electric vehicles. Am perplexed seeing what appears to be a clutch pedal and an automatic transmission shifter, on the console. Comments?
Jack Dodds and Tony Perrone reacted
01/01/2025 10:45 pm
@sizedoesmatter John and Terry I'm with you both. To top it off, yesterday I had the misfortune to see two Cybertrucks on the road. For the life of me, I don't know the attraction of driving the ugliest thing on wheels. What really upsets me is that my tax dollars are going to help support those who want this EV garbage. Anybody with a brain knows the environmental impact these vehicles will have on mother earth when they are old enough to wear out and have to be junked.
Remember when Volkswagen’s “The Thing” was the ugliest car EVER? The Cybertruck walks away with that award, hands down!
Zeeky Banutski
The People’s Republic of Maryland
Jack Dodds reacted
02/01/2025 9:02 am
Agree...but I'm OK with ugly. Some of my favorite cars are considered ugly, my problem is with EV.@sizedoesmatter John and Terry I'm with you both. To top it off, yesterday I had the misfortune to see two Cybertrucks on the road. For the life of me, I don't know the attraction of driving the ugliest thing on wheels. What really upsets me is that my tax dollars are going to help support those who want this EV garbage. Anybody with a brain knows the environmental impact these vehicles will have on mother earth when they are old enough to wear out and have to be junked.
Remember when Volkswagen’s “The Thing” was the ugliest car EVER? The Cybertruck walks away with that award, hands down!
John Bono
North Jersey
Jack Dodds and Tony Perrone reacted
02/01/2025 10:57 am
@sizedoesmatter John, I agree, if it is electric, then it is a now go. Also do not like the design even to call it a Challenger.
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