All good things must come to an end, and the end is nearing for the muscle engines currently behind the most popular Dodge vehicles.
According to Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis, "I will have this car, this platform, this powertrain as we know it through the end of '23. There's two more years to buy a Hellcat, then it's history.”
The LX platform Charger entered production in 2005, and will thus have been in production for eighteen years when the curtain call comes. It's a nearly unprecedented production run for a modern vehicle, though upgrades and facelifts along the way did much to keep the Charger moving with the times.
The Challenger is getting long in the tooth, too, having been on sale since 2008.
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