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Challenger boasts the DNA of its legendary predecessor, flawlessly sculpted with improved proportions, plus modern comforts and cutting edge technology. One look and you'll find:
Dual round headlamps
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Performance hood
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Available racing-style fuel door
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Signature full-width taillamp
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Front buckets with aggressive bolstering
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Angled center console
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Available contemporary pistol grip shifter
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High-performance instrumentation
Challenger's unmistakable profile, coupled with outstanding comfort, cuts through the monotony on the road. The only thing better than seeing Challenger out there? Driving one.
Challenger's interior might throw back to another era, but when it comes to comfort, it's on the leading-edge. Challenger delivers:
Awe inspiring and most definitely capable, Challenger is also practical with multiple storage areas to store your gear:
Challenger puts its best foot forward with a powerful lineup of wheels and tires. Lending to Challenger's commanding stance, these dancing shoes grab hold of the pavement and flex some serious muscle.
It is no secret that the exterior of the new Dodge Challenger was designed around its muscle car ancestor, but the interior also shows clear similarities to the early 70s version, but with a twist of technology and modernization. As you open the door and climb into the car, you do not have the stale look that can often come with copying an older model, but instead, it is a sharp angular take on a retro muscle car feel. The leather, high back seats have a sunken in, ribbed look, just like the seats which came in the 1970 Challenger. These seats wrap around the driver and passenger to provide more comfort and support than do the old model, and provide more grip under spirited driving. The shift console takes cues from the muscle car era as well, but again, with some minor enhancements to improve functionality, without losing its retro aesthetics. As you pull the door shut once you are settled into the drivers seat, the doors also carry a retro look, with the molded arm rests set in the inner door panels, and the door handles are mounted in the underside of that molded armrest. The door panels are trimmed in brushed silver to match the rest of the interior, as opposed to the muscle car era Challenger, which was mostly trimmed in wood grain.
Like the seats and the center console, the dashboard carries strong resemblances of the muscle car era. One of the most popular steering wheel options of the Dodge Muscle car era was the Tuff Wheel. It was a leather wrapped steering wheel with a matching leather horn button. Connecting these leather wrapped portions were three brushed aluminum spokes, at a slightly more than 90 degree angle from the bottom spoke, to each of the side spokes. The modern Tuff Wheel has actually been used before, on both the Dodge Magnum and Dodge Charger, which is fitting seeing as how they are also both reborn Dodge legends. The new Tuff Wheel still carries the thick black grip, with the matching center section, but the center section of the new wheel has been enlarged, and affixed with a chrome Dodge badge. the three brushed aluminum spokes are still present, but the side spokes have been moved down the wheel slightly, forming a 90 degree angle with the bottom spoke, and the three spokes are shorter due to the enlarged center section. Like the vintage Tuff Wheel, the new wheel is connected to the dashboard by means of a ribbed plastic cuff, which also matches the steering wheel color.
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