Dodge Challenger, Charger Might Not Be Going All-Electric After All

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But you can still kiss V8s goodbye…

Dodge sure has done a good job of getting media outlets to spread the news it’s killing gas engines for the next-gen Challenger and Charger. These shocking stories have been all over not just automotive pages but mainstream news outlets, getting all sorts of people worked up. But back on March 28 I predicted this wasn’t the real plan, that Dodge would instead throw the inline six-cylinder Hurricane engine into these so-called future muscle cars. Now it’s leaking out that’s exactly what Dodge will do.

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But Tim Kunikis, head of Dodge, has been telling automotive journalists the Mopar twins are going all electric, so people just accepted that as gospel truth. Thing is Timothy says a lot of things, just like most auto executives, and when Dodge’s PR department wasn’t echoing his wild declarations, I knew it was just hot air. That’s how this game is played, everyone.

Australian car website Drive claims to have seen internal documents from Stellantis, parent company of Dodge, which indicates the Hurricane six-cylinder engine will absolutely be used in the Dodge Charger and Challenger. But why would Kuniskis lie about such a thing?

I believe this has all been carefully crafted to get people worked up about the supposed shift to pure electrification, then to make them happy that gas engines aren’t going away after all. That might sound weird, but consider this: if Dodge simply announced it’s downgrading from Hemi V8s to inline-sixes, people would be mad and disappointed. This way Dodge can act like it’s some sort of hero. It’s brilliant, really.