OMG, as a guy who bought a '14 RT new and owned it for a few years, man o man, the description given at around 13 minutes about who drives these.....welp, it's hitting close to home!!
2009 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi 6MT: Diane landed her a young buck that's going to be a "defensive tech" at UGA. She drives a Challenger and somehow manages to park it illegally in every single historic downtown area in every single medium and small southern town possible. She likes parallel parking the wrong direction and burning rubber when she makes a u-turn to leave, making sure traffic coming both directions has to stop and watch her. It doesn't matter if there's a traffic light on both sides of her little stunt, she'll just plow through. She's Diane. She won't have to work a day in her life over 30. She's rich, and she's a B*TCH. Her future husband is a big sweetheart though... and his dad's a cop.
Back in 2017 when I just started my job at the Home Depot as a lot loader, I found a white Challenger that had a rear spoiler and the hood was vinyl wrapped with Hatsune Miku. I only saw it twice before never seeing it again. Thankfully I still have pictures of that "muscle" car.
@@Scypher0th genuinely curious where you’re getting your information from. Any quick google search will tell you “out the box” the 6.1’s handle boost with way less issues than the 6.4’s with their plastic intake manifolds. Barely anything goes wrong with the 6.1 due to the fact it doesn’t have VVT/MDS like the 09’+ 5.7’s and 11’+ 6.4’s.
@@wellsfirst64 exactly my thought when i read the comment. The 6.1 is a beast, a friend of mine has a 2006 300 SRT full bolts on with over 300k (in km) the only major thing he did around 220k is the timing belt if i'm not mistaken. heck some people even change their 6.4 manifold to the 6.1
This was a car that benefited particularly from the advent of blindspot monitoring. Never driven one, but I sat in a Redeye at a car show once and was amazed at how little I could see over my shoulders.
I have a 19, this is the first car I've left blind spot monitoring beeps on. And the backup cam is the ONLY WAY you can tell how close you are to the barricade while backing in to a parking spot. And you can't pull in because the spoiler thingy on the front is low enough it'll hit sidewalks or those little cement stops.
I find blind spot monitors to be a absolute headache, even in cars with massive blind spots. A convex mirror is just as effective and not an annoyance.
The Camaro of the same time period (pre-current one) is almost or worse than the Challenger too. I was shocked at trying to reverse park or lane change in one. Felt like my head out to go out the window to see.
@@whiplash308 I can vouch for the Camaro problem. A long time ago, at a dealer lot, I was getting service done and walked around the showroom floor to see what plastic cars were featured that week. Oh, a ZL1 convertible? 'Kay. I sat in it with the top down and was immediately hit with a problem: Where the windshield comes in contact with the top was right there, dead center in my field of view. This meant I'd have to either slouch (killing my back) or tilt my head to drive the damn thing. Same goes for putting the top up/down. Yeah, I'm a little long in the torso at 6'2" but I shouldn't be slapped in the head for it.
When I ride my motorcycle I gently accelerate through other driver's blindspots and if necessary move over in the lane. When I pass Challengers and minivans, I drop a gear and go wide open throttle. However, most challengers are already going 20 over, so they pass me instead.
Everything you said is so true, BUT I still can't help but like the challenger. Big 2 door with a v8 and a manual transmission, it's last of the dinosaurs
Ok, good. The most hateable car. The single worst alternate, “oh well, so I just got out of basic training, and uh, I don’t wanna go with the crowd and get a v6 Camaro like everyone else. Oh wait, why are there 30 other Challengers in the parking lot, and oops was that a curb?” This was people all around me in 2008/2009
In my day Mr I just got out of basic bought a 5.0 Mustang GT at around 28% interest because he was assured by his newlywed stripper wife that they could swing it on an E-2's pay because she was already getting child support in addition to the tips she brought home every night. Good times.
The official car of listening to "Something in the Way" on repeat while trying to act emotionally troubled, but actually just looking like your disappointed father when he realizes he's raised a complete dork.
@@_shundra_3182 the official car of trying to be intimidating while driving to Sunday brunch at grandmas. “Yes aunt Barbra, Stacy made deviled eggs. Can’t talk much right now though, I can’t hear you over the sound of my HeMi!”
@@danskinner9669 Not really. It currently has 170k miles and all I’ve done is regular maintenance. Its never given me any issues. Although its due for its first brake pad and rotor service. Its the 3.5L btw
Yeah, high gloss black is one of my many "It seemed like a good idea at the time" moments. Yesterday I washed, polished out a few scratches, clay barred, and waxed my car. When it was done it was a mirror. Or at least as close as the aging paint could get. But in Florida everything is in bloom. So, this morning, between pollen and the dew I have just a black car.
I feel this. I had a gloss black 2014 C7 from 2014-2017. People constantly said, "why is isn't your car clean?! It's such a beautiful car". I went through the same procedure of clay barring, thoroughly getting every angle just right, and waxing. It was great that afternoon. Next day it looked the same before cleaning.
Oh man right in the feels LOL. My daily is a Black Magic Pearl MK4, defo a "it seemed like a good idea at the time" and WHY IS IT SUCH A HUGE POLLEN AND DUST MAGNET. CAN WE TALK ABOUT SWIRlS? BECAUSE BOY OH BOY, GOOD LUCK WITH SWIRLS AND SCRATCHES AT THAT.
Ugh, I feel that pain on a spiritual level. My Fusion is Tuxedo Tri Coat Metallic in pretty good shape, but only two hours after a car wash it's full again. Such a beautiful color for those two hours though!
Actually the car that cemented retro styling for modern cars and also started the whole movement all together was the Mustang in 2005. The camaro and challenger followed suit a couple years afterwards. All 3 are soooo sexy.
meh... The mustangs now look pretty cool but I hated them when they were first introduced in 05. But honestly I have hated every mustang since the fox body so I guess im just a hater. And the Camero and Challenger look like rolling bricks with tires and lights. I mean the challenger is kinda cool I guess but the camero is so whatever and is sooooo played out. V6 Cameros are today what the LS integra and non turbo eclipses and lancers were in the 90's...
Retro styling for modern cars came before this car and the Mustang. With the new beetle, new Mini Cooper, Jaguar S Type, Rover 75, and a whole other mess of cars that came out in the late 90s. Retro cars are nothing new. Even the cars of the 70s borrowed from the design language of the 1930s. Heck there were neo classical cars in the 60s and 70s. This was nothing new, even in its time.
Actually, y'all are all wrong and imma tell you why. The 1990 Miata was the first retro car of the modern era. The Mazda people can deny it all they want, but the NA Miata is a Japanese Lotus Elan. It's completely divorced from the angular styling of everything else sold at the time. Late 80s early 90s were all about wedges and Mazda popped out a cute, rounded roadster that was straight 60s.
I had this same exact car in black also! My ex loved it so much she offered to take over payments since I drive my RSX type s all the time. 2 months later she burned out the clutch and spends over 100/week in gas. She would tell me she hates my Acura and I need to buy a new car. What she really wanted was his and hers challengers I’m glad we’re not together anymore.
My wife is an English major and this is the **only** channel where we've been able to connect over cars. I *crave* these literary theory takes - has @RegularCars done anything on deconstruction literary theory?
Here and there on the podcast, make sure to check out the PT cruiser review if you haven't, it's my favorite video he's done and there is a lot of literary themes.
he dissected postmodernism in the PT cruiser review, and I think he has talked about literary theory though I dont remember what video. Id try the recent 2000 superduty review
Try the Ford Galaxie 500 review, iirc there was literary analysis in that one but not on the level of the PT Cruiser review. I'm an English major who likes cars and all the cars as literary theory videos are like vitamins to me.
Yeah, the C pillars have their own area code, but having driven both an R/T and owned a Scat Pack, neither with BSM, so long as you check before you merge, or simply hit the gas, it's really not an issue. Harder is getting out into certain intersections enough to see, all the while the hood is jutting out forward. But I drove my Scat over about a quarter of the continental US, without issue. It's a boat, but it's a practical (for a coupe), fun experience that doesn't get old, and a fantastic grand tourer when equipped with a V8.
Gladly agree, as silly European enjoying GT AWD🙂And yes, I miss the V8 rumble (though the V6 is not that slow if you do not want to race everyday - it's surely more a cruiser than a muscle car of course) - in fact R/T with MT would be my dream car...
I got a ride in a Challenger at my college’s car club, and it gave me an appreciation of heavy, powerful cars. They’re awesome cruisers and they sound good.
That moment when you "got in the head" of the old men....THAT....THAT was powerful stuff. That was a Bukowski moment of clarity, sadness, frustration, etc. ALL of it. THAT made this episode for me, by far...ONE of my fav RCR moments. I'm 38yrs old and I had a moment like that last week where ALL...ALLLL I wanted was to go back in time to when I was a few years out of getting my DL, and I still had my handmedown 1993 MAzda 323 Manual hatchback eco-shrimp in Aquamarine. And all I wanted to do was....go places on back roads and look at parts of the region I lived in at a chill pace. That I could relax and chill and see the surrounding farmland and waterlands, mashlands and such and to enjoy the manual shifting and weather and yea.....and good milage. But now....Everybody is in a hurry. Every car looks more like a bad copy of each other, and within me is this Brobdignagian urge to tell the world to BE QUIET with your fake exhausts, fast paced "LOOK AT ME" shout about clout and go no faster than 5- because we have literally JAMMED up the roads.....And all I want is that country road in a small Japanese hatchback on a summer afternoon where I can pull off the road and look down a valley into some family's hamlet and thing "wow....". I named by car BABE the Blue OX [as much as a mazda 323 with 98 BHP EVER could be called an Ox...which I loved to laugh at].
I still want one of these. I have only ridden in a 2010 SRT8 my wife's brother bought one summer, he then proceeded to drunkenly roll it into a field one night. It was the same color as the one in this video and found it to be a very safe and compliant ride. It had gobs of power and torque and made great noises. It's the only muscle car that you can have that retro look, fantastic power, and travel cross country with your wife and kids comfortably. Edit: Just wanted to add that a few people actually daily these Challengers years round-up here in Alaska, and I am not talking about the AWD with the 3.6 either. They throw some sand in the trunk and run studded winter tires. They seem to do just fine as long as the snow is not too deep.
“Nobody buys a challenger for the interior” In the later iterations they honestly did a killer job. I have 2015 R/T with Alcantera seats with suede leather and it’s the most comfortable car I’ve ever driven. Huge kudos to dodge for really giving a fantastic driving experience
Agreed, i was very fortunate and driven one during my college years. The interior change made the vechile much more modern and comfortable. And I believe the seat in these challengers are the most comfortable car seats I have ever sat on.
@@LobotomyTC The 2008+ Dodge Caravan/Town & Country did NOT have this steering wheel, they used a 3-spoke design. The 2001-2007 and 1996-2000 generation Chrysler vans used a completely different wheel. Idk what you guys are talking about 😂
My grandfather has a 2009 with that original orange color with black stripes. He has only put roughly 400 Miles on it!! He was offered 40k from a Dodge dealership in Illinois and he refused the offer. Still has it in his garage just sitting....
That definitely seems like the trend with Dodge interiors, at least until recently. Usually pretty functional, but just parts bin, bland and boring. I like the interior in my 2005 Ram 1500, but it's nothing special, it's just there and pretty boring. Feels very much like a commercial vehicle. Doesn't bother me but I can see why other people would be begging for something a little more memorable. And I can't speak on the 2010s-later stuff because I haven't sat in one, but they look a little nicer.
Doge did the same thing with the 5th gen Viper, (hard to believe there's 5 generations of the Viper) calling back to the 2nd gen, when the GTS package was introduced. The GTS was a huge step up from the ragged and raw RT/10, which had the build quality of a Vector M12, when it was released clear back in 1992.
My dad bought a new 2010 Challenger as a 50th birthday gift for himself. Today in 2022 I'm just over 13 years away from his age back then. Time is a bitch.
The 78-83 second gen is a good looking car, it’s an awesome 80s Japanese car…..but not as a Challenger. And that’s what turns people off from that gen.
So it is that. When he said "2nd Gen" I was thinking- is he really talking about that crappy Mitsubishi they angered so many people by calling it a Challenger. It killed the name. Or the space shuttle exploding did.. can't remember
They were also rwd. They used to be worthless to most people. For the right person though, they were worth more then the conquest is today. The possibilities for a dirt cheap and fast project were endless. Pick one up for like $200 bucks, engine swap, have a cheap fast rocket that most people wouldnt even know what it is.
Its from the dork age of Japanese cars. Its that wierd inbetween of the Hako/1st gen celica/510/RX3/Galant GTO/240z era and the era of the 90s that people go crazy for.
Having bought o ne of these new as soon as 09s arrived because there were so very few 08 rts produced in just the fall of 08 I can say that keep for an rt with no options was 31800 . my options were 20 wheels 1350, manual trans 900, and tor red 295 for a total of 34k and change. Mine has been a show car and wears a Procharger. Only 30k miles and love it to death.
Love your channel and now you have done MY CAR! This was great. In 2009 all the Manual R/T's were considered Trak Pak cars which included the dif. Keep on keepin' on!
@BL Dontmatter it's a long story but I'm a shorten it for ya... I bought it from my mother in law, she used it as a vacation car. Always had preventive maintenance done on time, garage kept. I bought it from her. I daily drive it 300-400 miles a week. All highway.
@BL Dontmatter Even if not being highway driven, it's not difficult to get a non-MDS-equipped 5.7L Hemi to 200k+ miles. They are pretty stout. I've wrenched on a few high mileage ones that had rocker arm ticking and some valve lash on start up, and many tend to use some oil after 100k, but I've always been impressed overall by their durability. Good motors overall.
The official car of listening to "Something in the Way" on repeat while trying to act emotionally troubled, but actually just looking like your disappointed father when he realizes he's raised a complete dork.
I remember a Chinese language car magazine’s editorial lambasted the retro-design of the 2008 Dodge Challenger and Ford Thunderbird to prove that American manufacturers are stuck-in-the-mud whereas Asian and European manufacturers has moved onto hybrids and green energy and whatnots because it‘s the future. This car is the antithesis of a Toyota Prius: it’s loud, it’s gas guzzling, and the scourge of many teenage environmentalists, but it’s fast, looks cool, and heck loads of fun.
In the 2009 Top Gear UK magazine. The a writer drove one of these in the UK (driving on the Left Lane) and wrote it's a handsome car on handsome wheels and prefer the Challenger R/T over an 2008 Aston Martin Vantange V8 due to the seat sulking laid back and clutch problems. Lol this car solved it all to Dodge.
@@echodelta2172 because fun is fun and no amount of moral grandstanding will make fun stop being fun. It's why things that should he considered environmentally tone-deaf relics like Challengers and Camaros and 370Zs and such are still overall, a hundred times more fun than any sterile, Vega leather upholstered buttplug shaped EV or hybrid. You just can't deny the honest and stupid fun that a stick shift RWD sports car is. The mouth says it wants one thing. But the eyes and the heart are a lot more honest when it comes to cars.
Those rear pillars are rather huge. My S197 has tiny little windows on the sides that give you the illusion you might see something out of them, if you have the right angle - but I covered mine with louvers because the first rule of Mustang driving: anyone who is behind you, next to you, in front of you, or especially just walking on the sidewalk next to the road, doesn’t matter.
Drove a manual 2010 Challenger SRT8 for a month. Most fun car I've ever driven, and I work at a tow/storage yard so I've driven quite a few different cars over the years.
Dude! You're 6'7, you don't need a Dodge Challenger to get a Woman (provided you don't already have one). I'm 5'7, I NEED that Dodge Challenger to get a Woman. (Six foot seven talking about you don't fit. You could catch Boppers if you drove a fork lift!)
I drove a 2018 6MT with a hemi while working at Carvana and it was surprisingly pleasant and reasonable when driven normally. Up to that point I hadn't driven anything much more modern or powerful than an '03 Impala. Pretty neat experience
Kevin: The reason everything was better as a kid is that you didn't have to work. You didn't have to deal with other people's problems, you just tried to have fun. Your brain wasn't fully developed so you couldn't understand problems to the point that you would ruminate over them.
I think back to 2014-15 first discovering RCR and I was so amazed and sucked into the content that I didn’t really pay attention to how popular you guys were. Now In 2022 where I’m going back and listening to old Smoking Tire podcasts and hearing the shared affirmation I felt in Regular Car Reviews success as well as your personal early thoughts on your own growth….it’s kind of a trip to see how far you guys have come. Massive props and appreciation for you and keep doing what you do
the blindspot is real on those things. a few almost took me out on my motorcycle because of that blindspot. made me cautious whenever i go pass those things
@7:37 the amount of respect that goes into these cars when he drives them is something to applaud. 👏🏾 The effort that goes into the criticism of them keeps the subscriber count on the incline.
I really love the Dodge Challengers. Out of the big three Ford Mustang Chevy Camaro or the Dodge. I would definitely pick the Challenger. It's just so cool looking.
Good timing on this review. The Challenger is on her way out, discontinued by 2024. This will probably be the last time we ever see a Challenger with an ICE sold new again. Such a shame, and it leads a muscle car enthusiast to wonder if Dodge will manage to make their EV offerings just as attractive.
My brother purchased a 2014 Challenger R/T as an answer to hit over worked and dull life. Best decision he ever made. A few years later and I picked up a 2020 Charger R/T. Best Family car I can think of!
I’m on a binge. I haven’t watched rcr videos since high school and I’m at a point a decade later where I can really appreciate them So everybody is nice and used to it, but that bit about the old guy literally losing his composure was so well acted out like you really nailed that sudden break in mental state. he wants his life back more than the car 10/10
This car brings back good memory's, My dad had a 2006 dodge charger Hemi, Same interior, Same Engine, Same , Love the 2000s Chryslers (Even if they Kinda Suck)
I worked at a tire shop, we had a guy come in, in a Challenger (pretty sure it was an R/T, but not positive). I live in Rural Canada, a car like that gets attention (not a common sight). So first obvious question was why, cause roads in my area are well crap (1/4 of them are dirt), and most people have long dirt driveways, that turn into mud bogs every spring. He said it was his mothers, think he said she was in her 70's when she got it. She got it because the long doors made it easy for here to get in and out of. He was there when she bought it, and was over her shoulder motioning to the sales men to not sell her this car. That was until she noticed and told him to cut it out, well after a few years she went into a home and he got the car.
THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT ITS AGE!!! It's the perfect car for age denilists!! "I'm 33" when you're really 41. You and ALL your friends are rebels without that stupid flag. For the guy that has a Dukes of Hazzard shrine in his man cave. For the guy who romanticizes himself being the last guy on the block to drive a gas powered car & fights for it like a character from the Walking Dead. For the guy who's wife IS the Karen that's always expecting you punch everyone who stands up to her. Love you guys you dodge plague spreaders!!!
As a primarily bookish guy with a secondary interest in cars, RCR hits all the right spots. Truly some of the most interesting and cool content on UA-cam. Deserves to be earning a living making this stuff.
Chrysler Dodge engineering is simply phenomenal. Shove the same lackluster 5.7L in the car for 14 years and counting, without a horsepower improvement. A paltry 375hp out of a massive 5.7L--66hp/L. Very innovatively low specific power. The 5.0L out of the Mustang has been doing about 92hp/L for several years now.
So frickin true with the "Sorry, sorry, sorry, didnt see you there", I drive my sisters '19 AWD Challenger from time to time. Biggest friggin blindspot. My daily is a '00 Durango, that things a fish bowl, I can see everything around me.
I am 54. 2 years ago I bought a 2009 Dodge Challenger. R/T. 5.7 6MT, 62k miles... in Torred. Added a shaker hood and replaced the stripes like the ones on this car with the classic R/T side stripe. I am at peace with the world now.
I have practically this exact vehicle. Different hood, different wheels, leather interior. Same exhaust and decal on the front fenders. This was cool to watch. I can concur with tall people friendly, the interior is actually massive. I put 4 extra tall people into it the day I got it. Wasn't too bad. I take entire trade shows AND the folding table in the trunk... very impressive MPG for a beefy, and 10+ year old car. I wish I had a 1970, but this will hold me over, I have a weird desire for cars that were over 30 when I was born...Also, pretty sure I bought it from the crotchety old guy who was talking around 12:40....
Dodge Challenger (base model) for every drug dealer that leaves you waiting on them for 40 minutes while you wait outside on cop watch, as you overhear the occasional shouting from a woman inside the house. meanwhile, you’re in a honda civic rethinking your career and wondering how a dealer can afford a cooler car than you
As to your opening question, You say it's "the greatest hits of American Muscle" all combined into one car, but I see a 1st gen Celica nose on an Opel GT sitting on Watanabes.
How do you like it? Took my wife to go look at one with me last year and she loved the car but didn't want me to have it, now I'm driving her old CR-V while she drives the new Telluride. Got my old Acura TL 6-speed to have a little weekend fun still but want more lol.
@@Stressless2023 it is a blast to drive fast. To to me it's a more comfortable ride compared to the Charger R/T. If driven conservatively it can get 28mpg the only thing that I don't like very much is the vibration when the VVT is in four cylinder mode and gets a little drone going on. I bought it to replace my Magnum R/T because after years of driving cars and trucks with mediocre hp I wanted something that when I put my right foot down it goes and I got that taste with the Magnum and Challenger gives me more of that.
You forgot the fact that Kevin's Facebook shows he went to "The School of Hard Knocks". Always. Damn near every single one of them. And they always have the Thin Blue Line sticker in the back window. Always.
As a Kevin, who regularly posts on Facebook, I felt the hard truths of this video. I clearly need a dodge Challenger RT.
I froze when he said that. What- how's he know?
I think all us Kevin’s were triggered by this video, especially me cause my daily is a 2009 challenger rt
Well, if it isn't the three Kevins! Are Kevin's related to Kyle's?
The real question here is whether it's pronounced Coe-burn... or not.
bro, cockburn? no way thats your real last name
I love RCR .Every review has some new perspective on cars that i never had in my head
Yes the p/t cruiser, hhr, and grand national blew my mind.
@@kiprandom7208 I rewatch the PT episode from time to time, it never gets old, unlike the original owners of the car.
@@IsaacCoverstone i plan on it being my first car
@@YouSoldMe a PT cruiser? Didnt they make them with the SRT4 Neon engine?
@@Theesvpremekai They did. PT Cruiser GT. I think you could get it w/ a manual transmission too!
OMG, as a guy who bought a '14 RT new and owned it for a few years, man o man, the description given at around 13 minutes about who drives these.....welp, it's hitting close to home!!
2009 Dodge Challenger R/T Hemi 6MT: Diane landed her a young buck that's going to be a "defensive tech" at UGA. She drives a Challenger and somehow manages to park it illegally in every single historic downtown area in every single medium and small southern town possible. She likes parallel parking the wrong direction and burning rubber when she makes a u-turn to leave, making sure traffic coming both directions has to stop and watch her. It doesn't matter if there's a traffic light on both sides of her little stunt, she'll just plow through. She's Diane. She won't have to work a day in her life over 30. She's rich, and she's a B*TCH. Her future husband is a big sweetheart though... and his dad's a cop.
Wtf
Magnificence.
I have yet to see a female driver of one of these!
@@superadventure6297 My wife’s cousin Marie has one. Jersey Guidette, 4 kids, divorced, loud. Surprisingly, none of her ink is on her neck.
@@americanAlienBoy >Guidette
oh shit
Go dawgs
Back in 2017 when I just started my job at the Home Depot as a lot loader, I found a white Challenger that had a rear spoiler and the hood was vinyl wrapped with Hatsune Miku. I only saw it twice before never seeing it again. Thankfully I still have pictures of that "muscle" car.
Based and hatsunemiku pilled
Better that than a blue or green line decal
@@glassimageproduction Official car of "this Sunday I just want to bust and eat funyuns all day".
The official car of that guy who has nothing going for him but good hygiene but pulls ALL of the women outside the local weed and feed on Friday night
that's awesome
$29k in 2009 is about $38k today, which is just about the sticker price for a brand new challenger r/t with a manual.
Overpriced
Well back then the Challenger is atleast new, sorta. Nowadays its just an old car. Cool car but olcar
They only offered one trim level in 2008, the SRT8. 6400 “First Editions”. The 3.5 V6 was introduced in 09’ for the Challengers.
also the srt8's of 2008 had the 6.1l v8 wich is really really crappy and known to blow up not the current 6.4...
@@Scypher0th genuinely curious where you’re getting your information from. Any quick google search will tell you “out the box” the 6.1’s handle boost with way less issues than the 6.4’s with their plastic intake manifolds. Barely anything goes wrong with the 6.1 due to the fact it doesn’t have VVT/MDS like the 09’+ 5.7’s and 11’+ 6.4’s.
Anyone who improves this thread are the people being spoken of in the video lol
@@wellsfirst64 I honestly think most people get there info on the LX/LC chassis from old top gear jokes.
@@wellsfirst64 exactly my thought when i read the comment. The 6.1 is a beast, a friend of mine has a 2006 300 SRT full bolts on with over 300k (in km) the only major thing he did around 220k is the timing belt if i'm not mistaken. heck some people even change their 6.4 manifold to the 6.1
This was a car that benefited particularly from the advent of blindspot monitoring. Never driven one, but I sat in a Redeye at a car show once and was amazed at how little I could see over my shoulders.
I have a 19, this is the first car I've left blind spot monitoring beeps on. And the backup cam is the ONLY WAY you can tell how close you are to the barricade while backing in to a parking spot. And you can't pull in because the spoiler thingy on the front is low enough it'll hit sidewalks or those little cement stops.
I find blind spot monitors to be a absolute headache, even in cars with massive blind spots. A convex mirror is just as effective and not an annoyance.
The Camaro of the same time period (pre-current one) is almost or worse than the Challenger too. I was shocked at trying to reverse park or lane change in one. Felt like my head out to go out the window to see.
@@whiplash308 I can vouch for the Camaro problem. A long time ago, at a dealer lot, I was getting service done and walked around the showroom floor to see what plastic cars were featured that week. Oh, a ZL1 convertible? 'Kay. I sat in it with the top down and was immediately hit with a problem: Where the windshield comes in contact with the top was right there, dead center in my field of view. This meant I'd have to either slouch (killing my back) or tilt my head to drive the damn thing. Same goes for putting the top up/down. Yeah, I'm a little long in the torso at 6'2" but I shouldn't be slapped in the head for it.
When I ride my motorcycle I gently accelerate through other driver's blindspots and if necessary move over in the lane. When I pass Challengers and minivans, I drop a gear and go wide open throttle. However, most challengers are already going 20 over, so they pass me instead.
Everything you said is so true, BUT I still can't help but like the challenger. Big 2 door with a v8 and a manual transmission, it's last of the dinosaurs
Not to mention the comfort
There's a sticker inside the drivers door jam which will tell you the original tire size
To me, they look more like later Challenger wheels than aftermarket
Ok, good. The most hateable car. The single worst alternate, “oh well, so I just got out of basic training, and uh, I don’t wanna go with the crowd and get a v6 Camaro like everyone else. Oh wait, why are there 30 other Challengers in the parking lot, and oops was that a curb?” This was people all around me in 2008/2009
In my day Mr I just got out of basic bought a 5.0 Mustang GT at around 28% interest because he was assured by his newlywed stripper wife that they could swing it on an E-2's pay because she was already getting child support in addition to the tips she brought home every night.
Good times.
Navy says you need a v6 or 4cyl mustang
@@stevegyles3190 🤣🤣 ah memories
and this car still can't blow a V6 Camaro away except on highway pulls
E1s financed the shit out of these at 19%.
The official car of “I saw the Batman once now I want any sort of car that looks like the Batmobile.”
The official car of listening to "Something in the Way" on repeat while trying to act emotionally troubled, but actually just looking like your disappointed father when he realizes he's raised a complete dork.
@@_shundra_3182 the official car of trying to be intimidating while driving to Sunday brunch at grandmas. “Yes aunt Barbra, Stacy made deviled eggs. Can’t talk much right now though, I can’t hear you over the sound of my HeMi!”
Speaking of The Batman: still prefer the Tumbler from the Nolanverse
@@chiefkeef74 bat tank bat tank bat tank bat tank bat tank
it is an awesome batmobile, you must admit
I’ve been dailying a 3rd gen Challenger for 11 years. Pretty solid car imo.
Amen to that.
Good on you! Any common repairs that are needed?
@@danskinner9669 Not really. It currently has 170k miles and all I’ve done is regular maintenance. Its never given me any issues. Although its due for its first brake pad and rotor service. Its the 3.5L btw
What are the biggest issues that u had with the vehicle so far I’m thinking of buying one
@@Wholelottaorange normally electronics issues. Mainly alternators I forgot which years had them most.
“I drive a challenger so people know I mean BUSINESS”
-Some challenger owner, probably
'not BMW 7 series-kind of business?'
@@Shiruvan Nah I work in a DAnGerOUs business.
Honestly you're not wrong 😂
Yeah pretty much lol - A Challenger owner
Not really.
Yeah, high gloss black is one of my many "It seemed like a good idea at the time" moments.
Yesterday I washed, polished out a few scratches, clay barred, and waxed my car. When it was done it was a mirror. Or at least as close as the aging paint could get.
But in Florida everything is in bloom. So, this morning, between pollen and the dew I have just a black car.
All true and yet I could not resist buying my second Midnight Edition truck
I feel this. I had a gloss black 2014 C7 from 2014-2017. People constantly said, "why is isn't your car clean?! It's such a beautiful car". I went through the same procedure of clay barring, thoroughly getting every angle just right, and waxing. It was great that afternoon. Next day it looked the same before cleaning.
My first vehicle was a black F-150. I live in Las Vegas with 115 degree summers. I will never own a black vehicle again.
Oh man right in the feels LOL. My daily is a Black Magic Pearl MK4, defo a "it seemed like a good idea at the time" and WHY IS IT SUCH A HUGE POLLEN AND DUST MAGNET. CAN WE TALK ABOUT SWIRlS? BECAUSE BOY OH BOY, GOOD LUCK WITH SWIRLS AND SCRATCHES AT THAT.
Ugh, I feel that pain on a spiritual level. My Fusion is Tuxedo Tri Coat Metallic in pretty good shape, but only two hours after a car wash it's full again. Such a beautiful color for those two hours though!
Actually the car that cemented retro styling for modern cars and also started the whole movement all together was the Mustang in 2005. The camaro and challenger followed suit a couple years afterwards. All 3 are soooo sexy.
meh... The mustangs now look pretty cool but I hated them when they were first introduced in 05. But honestly I have hated every mustang since the fox body so I guess im just a hater.
And the Camero and Challenger look like rolling bricks with tires and lights. I mean the challenger is kinda cool I guess but the camero is so whatever and is sooooo played out.
V6 Cameros are today what the LS integra and non turbo eclipses and lancers were in the 90's...
"Interesting, tell me more"
- Chevy HHR/SSR, Chrysler PT Cruiser, Plymouth Prowler, and Volkswagen New Beetle
Retro styling for modern cars came before this car and the Mustang. With the new beetle, new Mini Cooper, Jaguar S Type, Rover 75, and a whole other mess of cars that came out in the late 90s. Retro cars are nothing new. Even the cars of the 70s borrowed from the design language of the 1930s. Heck there were neo classical cars in the 60s and 70s. This was nothing new, even in its time.
Actually, y'all are all wrong and imma tell you why. The 1990 Miata was the first retro car of the modern era. The Mazda people can deny it all they want, but the NA Miata is a Japanese Lotus Elan. It's completely divorced from the angular styling of everything else sold at the time. Late 80s early 90s were all about wedges and Mazda popped out a cute, rounded roadster that was straight 60s.
Laughs in 2002 Thunderbird
I had this same exact car in black also! My ex loved it so much she offered to take over payments since I drive my RSX type s all the time. 2 months later she burned out the clutch and spends over 100/week in gas. She would tell me she hates my Acura and I need to buy a new car. What she really wanted was his and hers challengers I’m glad we’re not together anymore.
Your ex sounds cool :)
My wife is an English major and this is the **only** channel where we've been able to connect over cars. I *crave* these literary theory takes - has @RegularCars done anything on deconstruction literary theory?
Here and there on the podcast, make sure to check out the PT cruiser review if you haven't, it's my favorite video he's done and there is a lot of literary themes.
he dissected postmodernism in the PT cruiser review, and I think he has talked about literary theory though I dont remember what video. Id try the recent 2000 superduty review
Try the Ford Galaxie 500 review, iirc there was literary analysis in that one but not on the level of the PT Cruiser review. I'm an English major who likes cars and all the cars as literary theory videos are like vitamins to me.
@Some Asshole on UA-cam your username sums up me very well, dear English Major.
Yeah, the C pillars have their own area code, but having driven both an R/T and owned a Scat Pack, neither with BSM, so long as you check before you merge, or simply hit the gas, it's really not an issue. Harder is getting out into certain intersections enough to see, all the while the hood is jutting out forward. But I drove my Scat over about a quarter of the continental US, without issue. It's a boat, but it's a practical (for a coupe), fun experience that doesn't get old, and a fantastic grand tourer when equipped with a V8.
Gladly agree, as silly European enjoying GT AWD🙂And yes, I miss the V8 rumble (though the V6 is not that slow if you do not want to race everyday - it's surely more a cruiser than a muscle car of course) - in fact R/T with MT would be my dream car...
I got a ride in a Challenger at my college’s car club, and it gave me an appreciation of heavy, powerful cars. They’re awesome cruisers and they sound good.
The 2008 car was actually only SRT8 Models with the 6.1 Hemi. The v6 came in 2009 with the 5.7
That moment when you "got in the head" of the old men....THAT....THAT was powerful stuff. That was a Bukowski moment of clarity, sadness, frustration, etc. ALL of it. THAT made this episode for me, by far...ONE of my fav RCR moments. I'm 38yrs old and I had a moment like that last week where ALL...ALLLL I wanted was to go back in time to when I was a few years out of getting my DL, and I still had my handmedown 1993 MAzda 323 Manual hatchback eco-shrimp in Aquamarine. And all I wanted to do was....go places on back roads and look at parts of the region I lived in at a chill pace. That I could relax and chill and see the surrounding farmland and waterlands, mashlands and such and to enjoy the manual shifting and weather and yea.....and good milage. But now....Everybody is in a hurry. Every car looks more like a bad copy of each other, and within me is this Brobdignagian urge to tell the world to BE QUIET with your fake exhausts, fast paced "LOOK AT ME" shout about clout and go no faster than 5- because we have literally JAMMED up the roads.....And all I want is that country road in a small Japanese hatchback on a summer afternoon where I can pull off the road and look down a valley into some family's hamlet and thing "wow....". I named by car BABE the Blue OX [as much as a mazda 323 with 98 BHP EVER could be called an Ox...which I loved to laugh at].
Nice impression of the way RCR writes their jokes. notice he didnt leave a heart, theres a reason.
@@iamatlantis1 Maybe didn't read it? Beats me. As long as it entertains somebody , makes me happy.
I still want one of these. I have only ridden in a 2010 SRT8 my wife's brother bought one summer, he then proceeded to drunkenly roll it into a field one night. It was the same color as the one in this video and found it to be a very safe and compliant ride. It had gobs of power and torque and made great noises. It's the only muscle car that you can have that retro look, fantastic power, and travel cross country with your wife and kids comfortably.
Edit: Just wanted to add that a few people actually daily these Challengers years round-up here in Alaska, and I am not talking about the AWD with the 3.6 either. They throw some sand in the trunk and run studded winter tires. They seem to do just fine as long as the snow is not too deep.
“Nobody buys a challenger for the interior”
In the later iterations they honestly did a killer job. I have 2015 R/T with Alcantera seats with suede leather and it’s the most comfortable car I’ve ever driven. Huge kudos to dodge for really giving a fantastic driving experience
Agreed, i was very fortunate and driven one during my college years. The interior change made the vechile much more modern and comfortable. And I believe the seat in these challengers are the most comfortable car seats I have ever sat on.
I've got a 16 shaker plus. Love the seats. The size of the interior is a selling point for me.
Just got a 22, The new Interior is definitely better than the older.
Dodge Challenger: Testosterone-fueled rage manifested in car form.
I don't think that any other manufacturer speaks to angry Middle America more than Dodge/Ram.
The Scott Steiner of cars and that's why we love it
@@SpaceGhost1984 Agree. And I want a new Dodge now lol.
That parts bin steering wheel pinched DIRECTLY from a Caravan.
Never change, Doge
Except that it's a completely different steering wheel 🤣 Dodge Caravan had a 3 spoke wheel
@@Stressless2023 Yes, in the 90s. The generation just before the current Town and Country and Caravan models, had that steering wheel.
@@LobotomyTC The 2008+ Dodge Caravan/Town & Country did NOT have this steering wheel, they used a 3-spoke design. The 2001-2007 and 1996-2000 generation Chrysler vans used a completely different wheel. Idk what you guys are talking about 😂
My grandfather has a 2009 with that original orange color with black stripes. He has only put roughly 400 Miles on it!! He was offered 40k from a Dodge dealership in Illinois and he refused the offer. Still has it in his garage just sitting....
The amount of shit that's probably rotted sitting like that is painful to think about.
@@ryang1591 I hear you man, it’s very painful for me!!
40K? I own the same car, same color (srt8). I need to visit my local dealer!
"Rewarmed" implies Dodge could build an interior in the first place.
Dodge, I just drank from my ash can
Even if the car was just a metal husk there would still be an "interior", he wasn't making a judgement of how good it was
The last cool dodge interior was the K car
I know, right. I'm one of the resident old guys here and Chrysler Corp has had a chronic case of the shits with interiors since about 1968.
That definitely seems like the trend with Dodge interiors, at least until recently. Usually pretty functional, but just parts bin, bland and boring. I like the interior in my 2005 Ram 1500, but it's nothing special, it's just there and pretty boring. Feels very much like a commercial vehicle. Doesn't bother me but I can see why other people would be begging for something a little more memorable. And I can't speak on the 2010s-later stuff because I haven't sat in one, but they look a little nicer.
Doge did the same thing with the 5th gen Viper, (hard to believe there's 5 generations of the Viper) calling back to the 2nd gen, when the GTS package was introduced. The GTS was a huge step up from the ragged and raw RT/10, which had the build quality of a Vector M12, when it was released clear back in 1992.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, owning a black car is like a part-time job
My dad bought a new 2010 Challenger as a 50th birthday gift for himself. Today in 2022 I'm just over 13 years away from his age back then. Time is a bitch.
The 78-83 second gen is a good looking car, it’s an awesome 80s Japanese car…..but not as a Challenger. And that’s what turns people off from that gen.
So it is that. When he said "2nd Gen" I was thinking- is he really talking about that crappy Mitsubishi they angered so many people by calling it a Challenger. It killed the name. Or the space shuttle exploding did.. can't remember
They were also rwd. They used to be worthless to most people. For the right person though, they were worth more then the conquest is today.
The possibilities for a dirt cheap and fast project were endless. Pick one up for like $200 bucks, engine swap, have a cheap fast rocket that most people wouldnt even know what it is.
Its from the dork age of Japanese cars. Its that wierd inbetween of the Hako/1st gen celica/510/RX3/Galant GTO/240z era and the era of the 90s that people go crazy for.
You could have always bought a Plymouth Sapporo instead.
This was only $29,000 in 2009? Jeez how times change.
Sticker for a rt is like 38000 today, basically same price when accounting inflation
Having bought o ne of these new as soon as 09s arrived because there were so very few 08 rts produced in just the fall of 08 I can say that keep for an rt with no options was 31800 . my options were 20 wheels 1350, manual trans 900, and tor red 295 for a total of 34k and change. Mine has been a show car and wears a Procharger. Only 30k miles and love it to death.
I purchased my 2010 R/T 6 speed in 2015, simply because I thought it was a beautiful car...
I've still got her :]
124k miles
That was an amazing performance! I loved your impression of the old wretched boomer desperately pining for the return to his youth.
The revolutionary war commercial for this car was the best.
Love your channel and now you have done MY CAR! This was great. In 2009 all the Manual R/T's were considered Trak Pak cars which included the dif. Keep on keepin' on!
My dad has a ‘14 Challenger with the 5.7 6 speed with only 14k miles. It’s a fun homage to the original
Pops sounds awesome
Mr. Regular: It's time to go back to class! Welcome to Literary Theory.
Me: Awesome! My favorite class! *pulls out notebook*
I daily drive my 2010 Charger RT... With 220,000 miles on the clock.... So that being said I will enter multiple times in hopes to win!
@BL Dontmatter it's a long story but I'm a shorten it for ya... I bought it from my mother in law, she used it as a vacation car. Always had preventive maintenance done on time, garage kept. I bought it from her. I daily drive it 300-400 miles a week. All highway.
@BL Dontmatter no major components replaced.
@BL Dontmatter Even if not being highway driven, it's not difficult to get a non-MDS-equipped 5.7L Hemi to 200k+ miles. They are pretty stout. I've wrenched on a few high mileage ones that had rocker arm ticking and some valve lash on start up, and many tend to use some oil after 100k, but I've always been impressed overall by their durability. Good motors overall.
The official car of listening to "Something in the Way" on repeat while trying to act emotionally troubled, but actually just looking like your disappointed father when he realizes he's raised a complete dork.
Fish don't have any feelings
I remember a Chinese language car magazine’s editorial lambasted the retro-design of the 2008 Dodge Challenger and Ford Thunderbird to prove that American manufacturers are stuck-in-the-mud whereas Asian and European manufacturers has moved onto hybrids and green energy and whatnots because it‘s the future. This car is the antithesis of a Toyota Prius: it’s loud, it’s gas guzzling, and the scourge of many teenage environmentalists, but it’s fast, looks cool, and heck loads of fun.
if you could predict the future would be bleak, monotonous and conspiring to rob us of everything we love would you wanna join it?
In the 2009 Top Gear UK magazine. The a writer drove one of these in the UK (driving on the Left Lane) and wrote it's a handsome car on handsome wheels and prefer the Challenger R/T over an 2008 Aston Martin Vantange V8 due to the seat sulking laid back and clutch problems. Lol this car solved it all to Dodge.
and yet when the Chinese international students came to the states, Challengers were ALWAYS in the top 3 cars they bought.
Chinese propaganda
@@echodelta2172 because fun is fun and no amount of moral grandstanding will make fun stop being fun. It's why things that should he considered environmentally tone-deaf relics like Challengers and Camaros and 370Zs and such are still overall, a hundred times more fun than any sterile, Vega leather upholstered buttplug shaped EV or hybrid. You just can't deny the honest and stupid fun that a stick shift RWD sports car is. The mouth says it wants one thing. But the eyes and the heart are a lot more honest when it comes to cars.
Those rear pillars are rather huge. My S197 has tiny little windows on the sides that give you the illusion you might see something out of them, if you have the right angle - but I covered mine with louvers because the first rule of Mustang driving: anyone who is behind you, next to you, in front of you, or especially just walking on the sidewalk next to the road, doesn’t matter.
ALL 6 speed cars come standard with "limited slip." It's optional on the automatics
I wish holden was still in business, cars like this would be awesome, but no, gm stopped all production of holden instead.
Holden sucks
Used Chevy SS (Commodore) are being sold for over 50k.... sad
Drove a manual 2010 Challenger SRT8 for a month. Most fun car I've ever driven, and I work at a tow/storage yard so I've driven quite a few different cars over the years.
As a 6'7" man, it's the only muscle car I can fit in comfortably. Gonna throw you $50 and hope it pays off
Dude! You're 6'7, you don't need a Dodge Challenger to get a Woman (provided you don't already have one). I'm 5'7, I NEED that Dodge Challenger to get a Woman. (Six foot seven talking about you don't fit. You could catch Boppers if you drove a fork lift!)
@@samarch2189 Buy some shoe lifts on Ebay for $10 - You'll be 5'10 in no time if you never wear shorts 😂
I drove a 2018 6MT with a hemi while working at Carvana and it was surprisingly pleasant and reasonable when driven normally. Up to that point I hadn't driven anything much more modern or powerful than an '03 Impala. Pretty neat experience
We challenger folks take the luggage and the wives of the mustang and Camaro owners lol
@@BMan100 hahaha. I'm a Camaro guy (don't have one right now) but that shit is funny, you AIN'T kidding about the luggage space
@@nthgth I need a step ladder to get to the back of my trunk...
@@BMan100 haha, a good problem to have
Kevin: The reason everything was better as a kid is that you didn't have to work. You didn't have to deal with other people's problems, you just tried to have fun. Your brain wasn't fully developed so you couldn't understand problems to the point that you would ruminate over them.
I think back to 2014-15 first discovering RCR and I was so amazed and sucked into the content that I didn’t really pay attention to how popular you guys were. Now In 2022 where I’m going back and listening to old Smoking Tire podcasts and hearing the shared affirmation I felt in Regular Car Reviews success as well as your personal early thoughts on your own growth….it’s kind of a trip to see how far you guys have come. Massive props and appreciation for you and keep doing what you do
the blindspot is real on those things. a few almost took me out on my motorcycle because of that blindspot. made me cautious whenever i go pass those things
Used to own a 2016 with the manual. Not a bad car. Definitely had a surprisingly nice interior and could fit a ton in the back seats.
I had one of those, one of the best daily drivers I've ever driven.
Had a 2016 v6 challenger and loved it. It was fun and comfy. Gave it to my dad though.
I wanna get one of those so badly.
But they're so incredibly expensive here in Germany.
And they are still expensive here in America too
@@shakarussanders9911 i meant any kind of dodge Challenger :(
Even used they are incredibly expensive
@@Birb_of_Judge I agree 2008s & 2009s are like 17 to 26 Grand
@@shakarussanders9911 here you can get a really mediocre condition V6 for about 14k and most V8s are between 25k and 60k
@@Birb_of_Judge Wow! I can't imagine paying 60 grand for a V6!🤦♂️😫
I owned a black 2009 R/T 6-speed with leather. It was one of my favorite cars I've ever owned.
Everytime RCR uploads, I die a lot less inside🙃
This is probably my favorite and most accurate Regular Car Review since the FD RX-7
lmao "Don't burn yourself with all those hot takes, Kevin"
A substitute teacher that almost went postal...it all makes sense now.
I love to see the owners of these cars trying to race people. Watching that boat wobble around is pure comedy
kevin
Yea, the R/T is barely faster than a V6 family sedan too so it loses to just about everything lmao
Maybe they're just having fun.. you don't need to win to have a good time, son
🤣🤣🤣 I'm a challenger, fan, and owner and that was EPIC! Thank you for always crackin me up! You produce some of the best car content on UA-cam!
I would love for a 100% honest, full throttle rant about why you quit being a teacher.
Just got an 09 SRT8 6 MT a few months ago... Absolutely adore it, with all of its flaws and imperfections. It's an experience.
Damn, now I wish I lived in the US. Manual Challenger sounds like a really cool car to have!
@7:37 the amount of respect that goes into these cars when he drives them is something to applaud. 👏🏾 The effort that goes into the criticism of them keeps the subscriber count on the incline.
I really love the Dodge Challengers. Out of the big three Ford Mustang Chevy Camaro or the Dodge. I would definitely pick the Challenger. It's just so cool looking.
This show makes every monday something to kook forward to
Good timing on this review. The Challenger is on her way out, discontinued by 2024. This will probably be the last time we ever see a Challenger with an ICE sold new again. Such a shame, and it leads a muscle car enthusiast to wonder if Dodge will manage to make their EV offerings just as attractive.
Yeah, sad.
But if there's ever to be a factory electric sports car with a clutch pedal.. I feel like Dodge will be the one to make it.
My brother purchased a 2014 Challenger R/T as an answer to hit over worked and dull life. Best decision he ever made. A few years later and I picked up a 2020 Charger R/T. Best Family car I can think of!
5.7 hemi: Objects in unsolicited DM are smaller than they appear.
I’m on a binge. I haven’t watched rcr videos since high school and I’m at a point a decade later where I can really appreciate them
So everybody is nice and used to it, but that bit about the old guy literally losing his composure was so well acted out like you really nailed that sudden break in mental state. he wants his life back more than the car 10/10
Roman always killing it with the songs/anecdotes at the end but taking it to a new level this episode
I nought Challenger and Camaro concept hotwheels back in '07. They're still in the original package and hanging on my wall today
This car brings back good memory's, My dad had a 2006 dodge charger Hemi, Same interior, Same Engine, Same , Love the 2000s Chryslers (Even if they Kinda Suck)
I worked at a tire shop, we had a guy come in, in a Challenger (pretty sure it was an R/T, but not positive). I live in Rural Canada, a car like that gets attention (not a common sight). So first obvious question was why, cause roads in my area are well crap (1/4 of them are dirt), and most people have long dirt driveways, that turn into mud bogs every spring. He said it was his mothers, think he said she was in her 70's when she got it. She got it because the long doors made it easy for here to get in and out of. He was there when she bought it, and was over her shoulder motioning to the sales men to not sell her this car. That was until she noticed and told him to cut it out, well after a few years she went into a home and he got the car.
THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT ITS AGE!!! It's the perfect car for age denilists!! "I'm 33" when you're really 41. You and ALL your friends are rebels without that stupid flag. For the guy that has a Dukes of Hazzard shrine in his man cave. For the guy who romanticizes himself being the last guy on the block to drive a gas powered car & fights for it like a character from the Walking Dead. For the guy who's wife IS the Karen that's always expecting you punch everyone who stands up to her. Love you guys you dodge plague spreaders!!!
Damn. I want a new Dodge to this day and I'm 38, but always say I'm 29 😂
As a primarily bookish guy with a secondary interest in cars, RCR hits all the right spots. Truly some of the most interesting and cool content on UA-cam. Deserves to be earning a living making this stuff.
35 minutes and already nearly 5 thousand views. Wow...you've grown.
Chrysler Dodge engineering is simply phenomenal. Shove the same lackluster 5.7L in the car for 14 years and counting, without a horsepower improvement. A paltry 375hp out of a massive 5.7L--66hp/L. Very innovatively low specific power. The 5.0L out of the Mustang has been doing about 92hp/L for several years now.
I’m glad someone else sees it the same way. Ford has a much higher level of engineering than most car companies
The extremely high belt lines and tiny windows make this car and the Camaro a car i never want to drive. The visibility is a nightmare on these.
The vision on the Camaro is like a tank. The only thing missing is the turret that should have been a factory option.
So frickin true with the "Sorry, sorry, sorry, didnt see you there", I drive my sisters '19 AWD Challenger from time to time. Biggest friggin blindspot. My daily is a '00 Durango, that things a fish bowl, I can see everything around me.
Your vision on your Durango is better than a new Durango
That car comes with a free anti-theft system. A manual transmission.
I am 54. 2 years ago I bought a 2009 Dodge Challenger. R/T. 5.7 6MT, 62k miles... in Torred. Added a shaker hood and replaced the stripes like the ones on this car with the classic R/T side stripe.
I am at peace with the world now.
9:30 How I imagine every challenger, charger, camero and lifted truck owner to act like.
I have practically this exact vehicle. Different hood, different wheels, leather interior. Same exhaust and decal on the front fenders. This was cool to watch. I can concur with tall people friendly, the interior is actually massive. I put 4 extra tall people into it the day I got it. Wasn't too bad. I take entire trade shows AND the folding table in the trunk... very impressive MPG for a beefy, and 10+ year old car.
I wish I had a 1970, but this will hold me over, I have a weird desire for cars that were over 30 when I was born...Also, pretty sure I bought it from the crotchety old guy who was talking around 12:40....
Dodge Challenger (base model) for every drug dealer that leaves you waiting on them for 40 minutes while you wait outside on cop watch, as you overhear the occasional shouting from a woman inside the house. meanwhile, you’re in a honda civic rethinking your career and wondering how a dealer can afford a cooler car than you
Now now. Maybe your Civic is an Si, in which case your car is definitely cooler than a base (V-6) Challenger.
The comment about the fingerless mesh arm warmers resonated hard
As to your opening question, You say it's "the greatest hits of American Muscle" all combined into one car, but I see a 1st gen Celica nose on an Opel GT sitting on Watanabes.
From the front it looks like a Javelin
@@vichedges8858 yeah, I can see that
what?!
I can’t believe you’re reviewing this car I’ve been looking into them just these past couple days. No joke.
you could get the 5.7 or 6.1 in 2008, don't know where you heard it was V6 only for the first year. They sold around 7,000 SRT8 models in 2008
Came looking for this comment. Left satisfied.
It was Automatic only on the first year.
First V6 was 09, with the SE with a 3.5l 250whp V6
I factory ordered a 2010 Charger RT AWD. This platform is fantastic and bulletproof.
3:30 that's why my 2021 R/T has blind spot monitors! Those B pillars are immense, but it's a pony car and to be expected.
How do you like it? Took my wife to go look at one with me last year and she loved the car but didn't want me to have it, now I'm driving her old CR-V while she drives the new Telluride. Got my old Acura TL 6-speed to have a little weekend fun still but want more lol.
@@Stressless2023 it is a blast to drive fast. To to me it's a more comfortable ride compared to the Charger R/T. If driven conservatively it can get 28mpg the only thing that I don't like very much is the vibration when the VVT is in four cylinder mode and gets a little drone going on. I bought it to replace my Magnum R/T because after years of driving cars and trucks with mediocre hp I wanted something that when I put my right foot down it goes and I got that taste with the Magnum and Challenger gives me more of that.
Still find it cool how he does these reviews on roads I drive daily
You forgot the fact that Kevin's Facebook shows he went to "The School of Hard Knocks". Always. Damn near every single one of them. And they always have the Thin Blue Line sticker in the back window. Always.
AUHGR IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE AND THOSE PEOPLE THEY AREN'T LIKE ME!
Damn im kinda surprised and glad this channel is still alive.
The 3rd gen challenger is a punisher logo sticker wrapped in a dishonorable discharge and a misspelled Facebook post about how Kid Rock is a patriot.
My Avenger is having exactly the same alignment angle like this clean Challenger. Lots of love from UK to RCR
I'm a no car over Mopar kinda person. (I like doing more then going straight) Love this channel!
I like how you brought up the SW11 again, so we don't forget!