For years, Toyota has been talking about its plans to make hydrogen fuel-cell cars and, more recently, fuel-cell ships and commercial trucks (big rigs). General Motors has been working on similar lines, and recently announced a new “Hydrotec” line of hydrogen fuel cell products for a wide variety of purposes.The benefits of hydrogen are it … Read more
When Dodge first introduced the two-year Never Lift Plan, the company hinted to a new enthusiast role within the brand titled the Chief Donut Maker. Earlier this week, the search for that unique position began in the form of a contest that every Dodge lover can enter by simply making a short video. That video … Read more
While most automakers are using existing brands for electric vehicles, GM has taken created not one but two new brands—Hummer, which was brought back from the dead, and BrightDrop. Chevrolet is still making battery-electrics, too, including a forthcoming pickup with impressive specs and a dull name.BrightDrop is GM’s new brand for electric light commercial vehicles, … Read more
Erick Lawrence of the Detroit Free Press, or Freep as it’s commonly known, recently did an interview with Chrysler CEO Christine Feuell. She referred to a future expansion or revitalization of the brand, which dates back to 1924. The original Chrysler car was built off pioneering work by Frederick Zeder, Owen Skelton, and Carl Breer … Read more
Mopar is now selling WiFi-capable 240-volt chargers for owners of Jeep® 4xe vehicles and the Chrysler Pacifica PHEV; available in plug-in or hardwired versions, they can provide a full charge in a little over two hours, around six times faster than 120V chargers. Adding WiFi gives owners the ability to monitor and control charging via … Read more
We have talked a great deal over the past few weeks about the Direct Connection performance packages for the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and Redeye, but there has been no word on whether or not other models would be included. Sources involved with the project told us that the Charger would be included at a … Read more
Dodge announced today that March 9th is the day on which the Power Brokers network will officially go live and on that day, the Direct Connection performance packages for the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and Redeye will go on sale.The kits for the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redye and the SRT Super Stock will go … Read more
The Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock was introduced as an answer for anyone who wanted to buy a new Mopar muscle car that was set up for the drag strip. The Super Stock is somewhat similar to the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon, but the Super Stock doesn’t come with the PCM that unlocks the 840-horsepower … Read more
This past weekend, the 2022 Legion of Demons event was held at Houston Raceway Park and while the event is designed to cater to the 2018 Demon, it is open to other modern Mopar vehicles. One of the non-Demons in attendance was the “007” Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat of the Epling Garage family race team … Read more
During Stellantis’ electric car information day, faint line drawings of a Charger and a Ram were shown. We don’t know if these represent actual prototypes or CATIA diagrams, or just artists’ renditions; but if one takes the rear view of the Charger and connects some dots, artist YBNormyl suggests, one can come up with something … Read more
The Legion of Demons is an organization run by owners of the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and each year, the group holds a weekend of racing. At first, the event was only open to Demon owners, but over the past four years, the organizers have expanded the event to include other modern Mopar owners. … Read more
After the community of Mopar drag racing fans has collectively held its breath for a few weeks, the announcement that we were all hoping for came through from Stellantis this morning – Tony Stewart Racing has partnered with Mopar for his new drag racing team. This means that Leah Pruett and Matt Hagan will continue … Read more
We have talked a great deal about the return of the Dodge Direct Connection program, which includes high performance upgrade packages for the Challenger Hellcat and Redeye. The “standard” Hellcat has two package options (Pre-stage, Stage 1) which lead to 757 horsepower, while the Redeye also has a Stage 2, lifting the output to 885 … Read more
Before the Jeep Wagoneer was released, some believed that the Grand Wagoneer would not simply be a higher-trim version with a much bigger engine, but that it would be longer, as well. That would fit the tradition of Grand Caravans, Grand Voyagers, Grand Cherokees, and, of course, Grand Wagoneers (though the last one was complicated—see … Read more
Dodge has dominated the consumer-level drag racing scene for the past few years thanks to the introduction of the Challenger and Charger Hellcat models, but along the way, the brand has issued several muscle cars that were designed to lay down incredible stock quarter mile times. Of course, the first was the 2018 Challenger SRT … Read more
If you follow the Dodge brand on Facebook, you likely know that the social media channel is quite busy, often posting information about the current models along with sharing images of owner’s vehicles from their own social media accounts. Earlier today, the Dodge Facebook account shared a “story” showing a bingo board with a long … Read more
