Photo: Stellantis company
Stellantis has reached an important milestone. At the plant in Brampton, Canada, production of three related models, which for a decade and a half were the embodiment of the Chrysler and Dodge brands, has ceased. The final bell has rung for the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger sedans, as well as the Dodge Challenger coupe.
The last Chrysler 300C from the farewell series with a V8 engine was released in early December
“Three Hundred” was the oldest in this trio: production began in January 2004. Charger joined him in the spring of 2005. Both sedans underwent extensive modernization in 2010, but technically remained the same. The Dodge Challenger coupe entered production in the spring of 2008 and was periodically updated, but visually it remained almost unchanged over all the years of production.
It was the Challenger that became the last car to leave the gates of the Canadian plant. The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 coupe, as in the title photo, but in Pitch Black color, put an end to the history of this family. Essentially, this is a road-legal drag racing machine. This Demon covers a quarter mile in just 8.91 seconds! All thanks to the legendary V8 Hemi 6.2 engine with a screw supercharger, which, when running on an E85 mixture (85% ethanol), produces 1039 hp. and 1281 Nm. Back in June, Dodge held a charity auction, where the reserve for the last example of the commercial Challenger was sold for a fabulous 700 thousand dollars. While the list price of the Demon 170 version is $96,666.
Thus, in the Chrysler brand range on the US market there is now only the Pacifica minivan, and under the Dodge brand there are only Hornet and Durango crossovers. Although the new generation of the Dodge Charger was announced in 2022, it is not yet ready for production. But there are rumors that, along with the purely electric version of the Charger Daytona, a gasoline modification with a Hurricane inline turbo-six will also hit the production line. As for the Canadian plant, it will undergo a large-scale reconstruction: $970 million will be spent on re-equipment for the production of electrified models. The restart of the conveyor is expected in 2025.
2023-12-25 16:36:23
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