Chrysler Is Once Again Building a Performance Car

Ever since the Pacifica minivan debuted back in 2016, Chrysler has been in a bit of a new product lull. That is officially going to change on September 13th however, as an “extremely limited production” vehicle is slated to arrive just in time for the Detroit Auto Show. Thanks to some clever detectives online, it’s all but confirmed that said vehicle will be a high-performance variant of the ever-present Chrysler 300.

The excellent @TamerlaneBlog was the first to make Chrysler's plans public, posting screenshots to Twitter from a teaser email sent out by the automaker earlier this week. The message itself notes that the automaker is gearing up to release its most luxurious and powerful special edition models to date. That wording suggests that this is indeed not a new vehicle, but rather a send-off for one of the automaker’s aging products. Despite the continued enthusiast cries for a Pacifica Hellcat, it’s far more likely that such a project would be related to the Chrysler 300. This is all but confirmed by the filename for the teaser image, which lists the model in question as a 2023 Chrysler 300C on the automaker's website. That sedan does share its underpinnings with the Dodge Charger, which itself is no stranger to special edition models. The image attached to the message itself doesn’t provide many hints beyond that, though it does feature a sporty looking Chrysler wheel sitting in front of a red-painted Brembo brake caliper. That caliper isn’t the same unit as the one currently found on the Charger Hellcat product line however, which all but confirms that this car won’t carry the fan-favorite supercharged 6.2-liter V-8. The caliper instead looks like something you’d find on the "lowly" Scat Pack model.