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A YouTuber dropped a supercharged Hellcat V8 into his 1968 Dodge Charger chasing 1,500 horsepower, and the swap didn’t go quietly — the torque twisted the chassis off the line and blew the supercharger’s intake apart before the video even wrapped. Here’s the story behind ‘Tater,’ one of the wilder modern Mopar engine swaps making the rounds this year.
Only 2,743 buyers ordered the R/T package on a 1971 Dodge Charger, and just 63 of those left the factory with a 426 Hemi under a mandatory RamCharger hood. Steve Dulcich’s own ‘Golden Boy’ is one of the survivors still doing exactly what Dodge built it to do — getting driven, hard, on the open road.
Dodge built the Super Bee as a stripped-price alternative to its own Road Runner, but partway through 1969 it quietly added the 440 Six Pack — three two-barrel Holleys good for 390 horsepower — and only 1,907 cars ever left the factory with that combination. That makes the Six Pack Super Bee rarer than most people assume for a car built around the idea of cheap speed. Whether you got the common 383 Magnum, the scarce Six Pack, or the legendary Hemi, every ’69 Super Bee proves Dodge’s budget muscle car was never actually a budget performer.
Detroit Speed dropped a blown modern HEMI into a 1969 Charger and built out 830 wheel horsepower, a number so high that TheSmokingTire had to publicly correct its own original estimate. Viewers immediately compared it to Roadkill’s notorious General Mayhem, just cleaned up and sent to finishing school. Watch the full build.
A professional car buyer put the 2026 Mustang GT and the 2026 Charger SIXPACK Scat Pack back to back and called the result “Not Even Close.” The Dodge has more power, all-wheel drive, and a legendary badge on the fender — and it still lost on the criteria buyers actually care about. That badge turns out to be part of the problem.
The 2026 Dodge Charger R/T swaps its Hemi V8 for a 420-horsepower twin-turbo six branded SIXPACK, a name Dodge borrowed from a legendary three-carburetor 440 V8 option from 1969. A veteran reviewer tested the ,000 loaded version, and the comment section couldn’t agree on whether it still counts as a muscle car.
Dodge tried going all-electric with the Charger Daytona, and enthusiasts made their disappointment clear. For 2026, the brand is walking part of it back — dropping the Hemi V8 but also the electric-only approach, in favor of a 3.0L twin-turbo inline-six making up to 550 horsepower under a legendary name pulled straight from 1970s Mopar history: SIXPACK. At around $55,000 for the Scat Pack trim, this is Dodge’s answer to enthusiast backlash. Watch to see whether it actually delivers.
Only 63 buyers checked the box on a 1971 Charger R/T order form that guaranteed their car would become a legend: the 426 Hemi, in its final year ever offered in the model. This particular orange, sunroof-equipped example combines two kinds of rarity most Mopar collectors only ever get to chase separately. Read on to find out just how rare rare actually was.
Mr. Norm didn’t just sell performance Mopars out of his Chicago dealership — when this 1971 Dodge Charger R/T rolled off the line with a factory Track Pack, he kept it for himself. That numbers-matching 440ci V8 and A833 four-speed eventually passed to a private owner who held onto the car until 2008, then went through a full rotisserie restoration that brought back its Orange paint and Magnum 500 wheels. The car still comes with its original window sticker, dealer packet, and broadcast sheet. Watch to see what thirty years and a meticulous restoration did for a car Mr. Norm chose to keep.
A grassroots drag strip reel from the channel Wheels captures classic Dodge Chargers, Chevy Camaros, Novas, and Cudas making real, unscripted passes — including a 1967 Firebird whose nose lifts dramatically off the line before settling back down. With nearly 95,000 views, it’s become a favorite for viewers who’d rather watch these cars run hard than sit static at auction. Watch to see which car actually gets fired out of the slingshot.
When Dodge redesigned the Charger for 1968, the gamble paid off far bigger than the sales team expected — the new coke-bottle-bodied car outsold its struggling first-generation predecessor by a wide margin. On this episode of Counting Cars, Danny and his crew build a fully customized tribute to that redesign, while Ryan and Shannon separately restore a father-and-son’s 1959 Harley-Davidson Panhead Chopper. Watch to see both builds come together in the same shop.
Edmunds put a 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack through a full test-track battery — three launch modes, a quarter mile in the 11-second range, braking, skidpad, and a dedicated range test — to answer one question: does an electric Charger actually deserve the name? The car’s Fratzonic exhaust system, built to fake a V8 soundtrack, gets its own verdict too. The results split the difference between genuinely quick and genuinely different.
TheStraightPipes put a 2020 Dodge Charger Hellcat Widebody up against the cars it has no business competing with — a Mercedes-AMG E63, a BMW M5 Competition, and even its own two-door sibling, the Challenger Hellcat Widebody. With 707 supercharged horsepower and a widened stance borrowed from the Demon, the family sedan does not just keep pace on paper. Over 1.2 million viewers have weighed in on whether four doors, a usable back seat, and genuine trunk space make this the smartest way to buy into Hellcat ownership.