This car had a performance tuned suspension, four piston Brembo brakes with red calipers, Dodge’s performance pages with configurable drive modes and a sport mode three mode electronic stability control. The bottom line was the Charger R/T Scat Pack looked good, real good. It looked like it was slicing through air even when parked.ĭodge said it had “Charger’s bold signature Dodge “face mask,” larger “flying buttresses” and Coke-bottle silhouette are now complemented with new LED fog lamps, turn signals and LED racetrack tail lamps” The front end overhang was taunt, the rear was tapered and the car was aerodynamically smooth. It had an aggressive look with the nose pulled towards the ground. Our Scat Pack had a black performance spoiler, a bulging hood with a duct center air intake, new fenders, new performance fascia fore and aft, side sills and 20-inch forged aluminum wheels. Sightlines were great, cornering was good, braking was outstanding and acceleration was breathtaking. Just the slightest pressure on the accelerator and we went speeding on down the road. Our test car had an option package that included a 552 watt 10 speaker premium audio system, an infotainment system with 3D navigation, HD radio, satellite radio and an 8.4 inch touchscreen. The Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack had a base price of $39,995. There is a Dodge Charger SRT 392 it is better equipped for $7,300 more but it has the same engine. The car had a zero to 60 mph time in the mid four seconds range and a top speed of 175 mph. It had an EPA rating of 15 mpg in the city, 25 mpg on the highway and 18 mpg combined. We knew upon start up that there was something special under the hood. It also had a dual chrome tipped exhaust with performance note. Power was funneled to the pavement through an eight-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters. The Scat Pack’s engine was a normally aspirated 6.4-liter V8 with sequential multiport fuel injection and a fuel saver mode. The car had 475 pound feet of torque which it delivered at a respectable 4,200 rpm. In other words, it is capable of carrying four people comfortably. #392 SCAT PACK CHARGER FULL#What’s even better is that the Charger Scat Pack is a sleek four-door full blown sedan. #392 SCAT PACK CHARGER PLUS#The Charger Scat Pack might be the best deal around we it comes to the horsepower per dollar ratio when looking at cars with 400 plus ponies under the hood. We used this ratio on a car with 500 plus horsepower and a six figure sticker. It had a tremendous dollar per horsepower ratio. They both still felt huge, and their size would surely be intimidating in wheel-to-wheel racing, but they're great fun for club runs against the clock.DETROIT – The Dodge Charger Scat Pack 392 is a wolf in not so sheepish sheet metal. Neither car really seemed to "shrink" on the track. Both transmissions self-selected the optimal gear for every corner when left to their Track mode programming. The programming is the same, so the difference is likely attributable to higher engine and transmission inertia. I also preferred the quicker, crisper shift quality of the 392's 8HP70 transmission to that of the Redeye's beefier 8HP90, which is fortified with stronger clutches and larger shafts. We ran with the traction control in Street mode, and I felt it intervening frequently in the Redeye almost never in the Scat Pack. The Redeye Widebody's combination of mechanical grip, huge straight-line speed, and looser nose had me charging into some corners too hot and blowing the exits. On the 15 undulating curves and multiple hills of Club Motorsports' 2.5-mile course, the Scat Pack Widebody's limits feel a bit more accessible-or perhaps just better aligned with my natural slow-in-fast-out driving style. Note that by contrast, the Redeye Widebody is just a Widebody package on a Redeye with no fundamental tuning changes. New Bilstein three-mode adjustable shocks are borrowed from the Hellcats but are uniquely tuned to match this spring/bar setup, the weight of the lighter naturally aspirated engine, and to work with the big 305/35ZR20 Pirelli P Zero three-season (or P Zero Nero all-season) tires. These hollow bars are now the same diameter as the Hellcat's solid ones. The anti-roll bars are stiffened by increasing their diameters from 32 to 34mm in front and from 19 to 22 in back relative to base Scat Packs. Its rear springs are shared with the Hellcats. At 359 lb/in, these are the stiffest front springs on any Challenger, up from 313 on the Hellcats and 284 on the base Scat Pack. His team ended up with a completely new spring/damping/roll-stiffness setup. "This started out as a project to just put the Widebody package on the Scat Pack, but then we thought, 'Why don't we try to go a bit further,'" explains SRT vehicle dynamics chief Erich Heuschele.
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