Yes, it does, it’s still a big, heavy car though so don’t expect miracles. it’s absolutely glorious.ĭoes the Widebody make it a better drive? Press down the gas pedal in Sport mode and all hell breaks loose, as do the tires if you’re not careful, and the exhaust bellows like the god of thunder……. On startup, it burbles and rumbles and there’s no whiny supercharger as in the Hellcat, it’s just natural aspiration at its best. Yes, the exhaust is loud, obnoxious, and I love it. Mated to an excellent and quick-shifting 8-speed automatic transmission this car will do 0-60 in 4.3 seconds, which is not far off the Hellcat’s 3.6 seconds, all due to the traction issues the Hellcat has on its street tires. My 2020 Dodge Charger Scat Pack Widebody, uses the same naturally aspirated, 392-cubic-inch (6.4 liters) V8 and produces 485 hp 6000 rpm and 475 lb-ft 4200 rpm. The exhaust is loud, obnoxious, and I love it.īrakes are now taken from the Hellcat, massive 15.4-inch two-piece front brake rotors with six-piston Brembo calipers and four-piston rear calipers stop the car extremely well with the 60-to-zero stopping distance reduced to only 107 feet, impressive for a 4,400 lb car. Dodge has modified the springs, sway bars, and shocks so the front spring rates are now 27 percent stiffer than before, with a rear sway bar that’s up from 19 mm to 22 mm in diameter, along with re-tuned shocks with revised valving. But there are many more changes, the 2020 Charger Widebody now has electric power steering, a revised version of the SRT-tuned Bilstein three-mode adaptive damping suspension. The Widebody adds 3.5 inches of width to the Charger, and some much-needed bigger tires. So to keep the big Charger fresh Dodge has introduced a Widebody package, similar to what is available on the Dodge Challenger Scat Pack and Hellcat. The Charger’s retro looks, and big powerful engines have worked wonders in luring people into dealerships and away from buying the ubiquitous Crossovers seen everywhere. People are still buying big rear-wheel-drive cars and Dodge has one they want, being one of the few manufacturers who still make affordable large sedans. So far this year, despite Covid 19 crippling auto sales, Dodge sold 30,084 Chargers through the end of June.
In 2019, Dodge sold 96,935 Dodge Chargers in the US, an increase of 21% over 2018. In the fourth quarter of 2019 for example, Dodge sold 25,829 examples of the Charger, that’s an increase of 23% over the same three-month period last year. The Dodge Charger has been around now for 15 years and despite the overall demise of large and small sedans, Dodge is bucking the trend.
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