2026 Dodge Charger Sixpack's Muscle Car Silliness Will Help You Forgive Its Woke Engine

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Dodge doesn't do "woke." It doesn't do bluish hairsbreadth aliases pronouns aliases genderfluidity aliases Zohran Mamdani, yet erstwhile it came clip to put an soul combustion motor successful nan eighth-generation Charger, it ditched nan Hemi V8 (which has seen a resurgence successful nan Ram pickup, Durango SUV and Jeep Wrangler) for Stellantis' twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six Hurricane motor. Despite nan truth that woke is dead, Dodge has soldiered connected pinch the 2026 Charger Sixpack, and you tin telephone maine a crazy lib each you want, but I deliberation nan Charger Scat Pack is each nan amended for it.

Sure, this straight-six is much of a genderfluid-six if you inquire group on X (the everything app), but its comparatively mini package brings pinch it a immense musculus car–like punch that moreover nan astir ardent Fox News spectator will appreciate. What nan Charger Scat Pack is missing successful Hemi V8 noise, it much than makes up for pinch classical musculus car silliness, genuinely good handling and a level of comfortableness that's difficult to hit astatine immoderate price. On apical of each that, location are capable gimmicks packed successful to support moreover nan astir iPad-pilled Boomer entertained for days connected end.

Full Disclosure: Dodge flew maine down to Knoxville, Tennessee, put maine up successful a beautiful edifice and fed maine each truthful I could thrust nan 2026 Charger Scat Pack connected nan Tail of nan Dragon.

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The electrical Charger Daytona is, frankly, not trading well. Dodge moved conscionable 2,776 Daytonas done nan first 3 quarters of 2025. The lackluster guidance has forced nan institution to drop nan lower-priced Daytona R/T exemplary for 2026 and nixed plans for a halo SRT Daytona Banshee. It besides trim Daytona Scat Pack prices and really moved up nan Sixpack's merchandise day to thief get nan money flowing again. All of this is to say, nan Charger Sixpack is incredibly important for Dodge.

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Like successful different Hurricane-equipped vehicles, location are 2 output levels to take from: Standard and High. Since I only drove nan High-Output Scat Pack, I won't interest myself pinch nan 420-horsepower R/T. While immoderate of you Real American Patriots will constituent retired that there's nary replacement for displacement, I'd for illustration to constituent retired that nan 3.0-liter Hurricane makes much powerfulness than nan 5.7- and 6.4-liter Hemis that were nether nan hood of nan erstwhile Charger and Challenger. In High-Output Scat Pack guise, nan inline-six puts retired a beardown 550 hp and 531 lb-ft of torque pinch nan thief of 30 psi of boost. That's an betterment of 65 horses and 56 torques complete nan aged car.

All of that powerfulness is routed done a quick-shifting ZF eight-speed automatic transmission and a mechanical limited-slip differential. And I know, nan Sixpack's all-wheel thrust is sacrilege successful nan world of musculus cars, but I committedness that there's nary request to worry. In Sport mode, nan Charger tin wholly disconnect its beforehand wheels and move into a existent rear-wheel-drive monster that tin toggle shape rubber into a fine, inhalable mist.

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There's nary getting distant from nan truth that nan Scat Pack's motor doesn't sound astir arsenic bully arsenic nan Hemis of days gone by, but it surely makes an absorbing noise. Since you're reference this and cannot perceive nan written word, I'll opportunity that from wrong nan car, it sounds benignant of for illustration a Nissan VQ motor erstwhile you rev it out, but there's besides a batch of very invited turbo noises coming from nether nan hood. Oddly, connected nan outside, there's a wholly different sound floor plan that's overmuch much akin to a modern BMW inline-six. I cognize what you're thinking: So, it sounds for illustration import crap, not American muscle. Well, nan full dual-mode exhaust strategy carried a deeper baritone little successful nan rev scope than you mightiness expect from an I6. At idle, it honestly sounds a spot V8-ish.

And don't you interest astir state mileage. You tin still ain nan libs pinch your substance consumption. Over astir 110 miles of driving nan Charger, I averaged a Patriot Approved 9.6 miles per gallon. Right now, neither Dodge nor nan EPA has fixed substance system estimates for nan Sixpack Scat Pack.

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The Charger Sixpack Scat Pack is not a sports car, but it's besides not arsenic dogshit arsenic a accepted musculus car should beryllium connected a roadworthy for illustration nan Tail of nan Dragon. Don't get maine wrong, if you overcook it, nan point will still understeer for illustration a pig. But if you study to spell easy into a corner, beryllium deliberate pinch your turns of nan very vague-feeling and very quadrate steering wheel, and works your ft connected exit, you tin person a genuinely nosy clip successful this car.

If being a hooligan is nan goal, nan Charger excels astatine that, too. Dodge group up a drift people for us, and I was shocked astatine really controllable it is. There's nary clutch kicking aliases Scandi flicking involved. This is aged school. Come up to a corner, commencement to turn, and mash nan throttle. It'll spell sideways really quickly, but nan car's magic is successful really easy it is to clasp those drifts.

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There are 5 thrust modes to take from: Auto (woke), Eco (woke), Wet/Snow (Wo/ke), Sport and Custom. When you've sewage it successful Sport aliases Custom, nan Charger really comes alive. The steering ne'er gets much communicative aliases thing for illustration that, but you tin disable nan beforehand wheels and spell RWD only, which makes everything very silly. Turn traction power off, and boy, nightmares tin hap very quickly. AWD is for winning races, and RWD is for looking for illustration you're having a awesome clip while losing races.

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Because of nan AWD and that eight-speed auto, nan Charger Sixpack hooks up for illustration you wouldn't believe. Dodge says its 0-60-mph clip is 3.9 seconds, and it'll dispatch nan quarter-mile successful 12.2 seconds. Put nan hammer down, and it'll deed 177 mph. Not bad for a coupe that weighs complete 4,800 pounds.

I brought nan car to an 1/8th-mile resistance strip, and aft warming up nan rear tires utilizing line-lock, I laid down a 7.924-second clip astatine 90.84 mph, and that was pinch astir 450 pounds worthy of group successful nan car. While it mightiness sound for illustration immoderate import crap from nan outside, connected nan inside, you'll beryllium grinning for illustration Laura Loomer astatine a MAGA rally.

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At first glance, it's beautiful damn difficult to show nan Charger Sixpack isolated from the all-electric Charger Daytona. Dodge did this connected purpose, and it built nan car pinch a communal assemblage building to let for elasticity erstwhile it came to nan powertrains. Of course, nan easiest show is retired back. The Scat Pack has dual exhaust pipes, and while I'm judge Dodge designers played astir pinch nan idea, nan Daytona doesn't. The rear bumper now sounds "CHARGER" alternatively than "DAYTONA," but I wouldn't expect galore to announcement that since reference is for squares, conscionable for illustration turbochargers.

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There are plentifulness of creation changes up front, too, including a caller beforehand bumper and hood. The R-Wing pass-through successful nan hood is simply a defining creation constituent of nan Daytona, but Dodge dropped it from nan Sixpack for evident reasons. It didn't request those aero gains, and it would person taken up valuable abstraction wherever nan motor needed to go. That intends nan Sixpack gets a taller hood pinch a spot of a powerfulness bulge successful it, connected nan backside of which is simply a mendacious vent pinch "SIXPACK" written connected it.

Dodge went to activity pinch a Sawzall connected nan beforehand bumper to get much aerial into nan motor bay and different parts of nan car. Engineers opened up nan little fascia and grille, and trim a message slot betwixt nan 2 to ram arsenic overmuch aerial into that motor arsenic possible. It besides added brake duct cooling lanes on nan correct and near sides of nan bumper to support brake temperatures nether control.

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Other than that, nan 2 cars are precisely nan aforesaid connected nan outside. It still looks awesome from immoderate angles and not truthful bully from others. The beforehand and rear head-on views are still my individual favorites, and they tie nan astir inspiration from nan Dodges of Nixon's America. The coupe still deals pinch nan awkward rear three-quarter perspective that makes nan rear wheels look excessively small, nary matter what you do. There's conscionable truthful overmuch bodywork. Luckily, this is fixed by going for the four-door Charger sedan, which is $2,000 much costly than nan two-door for some nan Sixpack and Daytona. While coupes are cool, nan sedan is astir apt nan 1 I'd bargain for conscionable that perspective alone. No matter which you choose, you still get that awesome liftback tailgate, and nan exterior dimensions are precisely nan same. Of course, styling is subjective, truthful your results whitethorn vary.

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Much for illustration nan exterior, nan Charger Sixpack's interior is very akin to nan Daytona's. That is to opportunity that it's nary luxury car, but it's surely a measurement up from nan aged Charger and Challenger, and it feels a spot amended screwed together than those piles were. The only giveaways that this is simply a state car are nan "L" fastener connected nan shifter and nan tachometer successful nan monolithic 16-inch integer gauge cluster. (A 10.25-inch surface is standard.) To nan correct of nan gauge cluster is nan 12.3-inch infotainment show moving Stellantis' Uconnect 5, and supra it is simply a head-up display. Overall, nan trio of screens are fine. They're easy capable to navigate and customize, but there's a spot much lag successful nan systems than anyone would really like. On each broadside of nan halfway screen, location are capacitive touch buttons for heated/cooled spot controls, and they gave maine specified a difficult goddamn time. I don't cognize if it was because of nan acold temperatures, but it took a batch of attempts to get them to registry my touches. At slightest location are beingness measurement and tuning knobs, and a slew of buttons beneath nan surface for your different ambiance controls.

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The Sixpack besides gets nan beautiful suite of information tech recovered successful nan Daytona, including worldly for illustration a surround-view camera, adaptive cruise control, blind-spot involution and lane-keeping assist. All of nan systems really activity really good together, and Stellantis really has 1 of nan amended Level 2 driver-assistance systems successful nan industry. It does a awesome occupation of keeping you successful your lane and retired of nan car successful beforehand of your bumper. Factor successful nan highly adjustable and supportive bucket seats of nan Scat Pack (pulled correct from nan Daytona), and you've sewage a delightfully comfortable long-distance cruiser. You're going to person to extremity for state beautiful often, but astatine slightest it'll beryllium comfy. I cognize comfortableness is for babies, but I won't show anyone if you don't.

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The rear seats, while alternatively spartan, are cavernous. There are oodles of abstraction backmost there, including 37.2 inches of legroom, which is simply a 4.1-inch betterment complete nan Challenger. Adding successful nan 36.9 inches of headroom intends that, contempt nan truth this point only has 2 doors, I tin fresh comfortably successful nan rear seats down my driving position, and I'm 6-foot-1. While location isn't overmuch going connected backmost there, astatine slightest passengers will beryllium capable to look done nan optional fixed solid tile aliases astatine nan 64 selectable ambient lighting colors that bounce oh-so-nicely disconnected nan c fibre connected nan doorway panels.

Behind those seats and nether nan superb liftback, Dodge says you tin put 22.8 cubic feet of your bugout supplies successful nan trunk. If you scheme connected being off-grid for a spot longer, driblet those rear seats and it expands to 37.4 cubic feet. You won't find a coupe pinch much trunk room than that.

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If I'm speaking your language, and you want to get nan musculus car pinch nan woke centrifugal (you should, it's rather good), I've sewage fantabulous news. Dodge says it's going to commencement shipping nan Charger Sixpack Scat Pack very soon. Prices commencement astatine $56,990, including destination. That mightiness sound for illustration a lot, but Dodge says it's nan cheapest 550-plus-horsepower car you tin bargain correct now, and I'm reasonably definite that's correct. Regular Sixpack R/Ts are slated to commencement astatine $51,990, truthful you mightiness arsenic good walk nan other 5 expansive for each that power.

Of course, you won't get each of nan goodies connected my trial car for $56,990. You'll person to salary nan piper. Right disconnected nan bat, my car's Bludicrious will group you backmost $695. Then, there's nan $4,995 Customer Preferred Package 22B. It has thing to do pinch Subaru, but it does travel pinch ventilated beforehand seats, heated rear seats, capacity pages successful nan infotainment system, nan 16-inch gauge cluster, a wireless charging pad, nan surround-view camera, nan head-up display, that ambient lighting, and astir a cardinal different things. Get this package. You request it.

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Next, adhd connected nan $1,095 Blacktop package, which gives nan Scat Pack achromatic exhaust tips and acheronian exterior badging. Then, you're going to want to click connected nan container for nan $1,995 Carbon and Suede Package, which gets you precisely what you'd think: heated and power-adjustable mirrors pinch a carbon-fiber screen and exterior puddle lights pinch logos.

We're not done yet, friend. You'll request to walk $1,095 connected 20-inch wheels and $995 for nan afloat solid roof. Last but not least, fork retired different $1,495 for nan 18-speaker Alpine stereo system. All of this comes retired to a expansive full of $69,355.

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You're paying a batch of money, but this is expected to beryllium a batch of car, aft all. Dodge wants nan Charger Sixpack to beryllium your do-everything vehicle, and successful a batch of ways it tin be, but it doesn't ever return nan astir orthodox approach, truthful you get things for illustration nan inline-six alternatively than a V8 and nan liftback alternatively than a trunk. For a institution that is mostly averse to taking risks, nan caller Charger is simply a monolithic 1 successful general, truthful Dodge does merit immoderate in installments for that.

There's small uncertainty successful my mind that Tim Kuniskis and his merry set of engineers will yet shove a Hemi V8 backmost nether nan hood of a Charger pinch a Symbol of Protest badge slapped connected nan fender, but I deliberation that'll beryllium a mistake. I interest that 1 time we'll look backmost connected nan Charger Sixpack Scat Pack arsenic a weird interlude successful nan Charger/Challenger lineup — a conveyance sandwiched betwixt 2 V8 offerings erstwhile nan Hemi inevitably returns. I dream that isn't nan case, because nan Hurricane Charger is bully capable to guidelines connected its ain 2 legs, but I don't cognize if it tin outrun nan world its automaker created for it.

The Hurricane inline-six suits nan Charger, and nan Charger suits nan Hurricane. Of course, nan aged adage is "go woke, spell broke," but hey, astatine slightest it's not electric.