Is there no market for an electric Challenger?
Said another way, I don't understand why going electric precludes muscle cars.
If anything, it seems like they have an opportunity to make them even faster when they are electrified.
Said another way, I don't understand why going electric precludes muscle cars.
If anything, it seems like they have an opportunity to make them even faster when they are electrified.
Electric cars just can't reproduce that. they can be faster, quicker, better off the line...but they don't FEEL the same.
EVs are not completely silent, but often times the sounds of the environment are louder, thus making EVs harder to notice through hearing.
0: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/ford-exec-says-this-is-why-it-s...
1: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/feu/en/news/2021/12...
https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/dodge-charger-electric-...
I think that hobby is more what draws folks than the raw performance.
More seriously, a successful electric car needs a chassis that's been engineered to be an electric car. You can convert a normal front engine, rwd chassis, but it's always a compromise.
For example: Blaring Whitesnake.
"My neighbor is enjoy this song so much, he through a brick through my window to hear it better!"
No, the reason there's no market for an electric Challenger et al is because the electric one doesn't sound right.
Around here, it seems pretty much every other pony car (Challenger, Mustang, Camaro) has reworked the exhaust system to "sound better", so it can be enjoyed by everyone else within a mile as they do their full throttle runs down empty street at night.
It should also be noted that Cadillac has already (year or so ago?) stated they won't be making any more ICE performance cars. All of their future ones will be electric. I doubt this is GM wide, pretty sure the ICE Corvette is filed in GMs "cold, dead hands" drawer.
It does seem a bit smaller, never saw the two side by side. But stylistically, it's a Challenger.
Safety standards are getting strict enough that they do influence the physical shape of the car, because the physical shape of the car influences your options for how to dissipate energy in a collision.
They'd probably have real problems with a Barracuda.
The Charger/Challenger were the same way. Th '70s originals were built on the old Dodge Coronet platform-low and wide. The new (current) ones, built on the Chrysler LX platform shared much of their hidden sheetmetal with the Mercedes W210/W211 E-class; so instead of low and wide, they're tall and narrow, more like a German luxury sedan. Without, you know, the good visibility.