At Speed Week 2022, Dodge debuts its all-new muscle car, the Charger Daytona SRT EV concept. Never miss a deal again! See CNET’s browser extension 👉 bit.ly/39Ub3bv Subscribe to our channel: / @cnethighlights
@@PeaceMastah because it's a premium brand with name recognition. If I were to say Bowers and Wilkins or Klipsch then a lot less people would get the joke. Do you have any sense of humor? Or do you need all jokes explained to you?
Saddest day in history will be when it hits the showroom floor looking completely different than this. Kudos to Hyundai for keeping their production cars close to the concepts.
@@blakenovinsky1387 it’s not amazing looking, but it doesn’t look bad and it makes sense for their goal to make a more practical car that people will buy
@@spuppy21 “Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing filled with used pinball machine parts.”
This is hands down the best looking EV on the market. I’m sure you’ll see custom mods to the sound. It needs some powerful subwoofers to sound like a real v8.
Yeah well like it or not everything is going to EV in the next 10 years so at least it looks like an actual charger or some kind of cool car for it being EV all the electric cars just look whack this actually looks good
It will probably scream as the banshee nameplate implies while actually driving and not being for show. I dont think it sounds quite right, atleast not here, but i give them props for developing a something more than a basic speaker or pumping it into the cabin alone.
I think it sounds weird cause they rev it while it's going walking speed, doesnt match. I wanna see & hear it actually driving, and hope it actually looks like this in production
I don't expect the production car to look much different from the concept car on the outside. It's the interior where most of the production compromises will probably show up. Love the way the concept looks!
It’s a 2 stroke so it will sound like a 4 joke v8 a 6000 rpm while this 2 stroke v8 is going 3000 rpm. I never liked American muscle cars anyways but this kinda got my attention
This car for some reason reminds me so much of the Knight Rider car KITT even though it’s a different make and model. But I know they were shooting for the car from the movie The Wraith.
One of the best looking cars I’ve seen in a while but it’s gonna takes me years to get over that sound.. it’s like a transformers sound effect played too loud on a radio system
I love the sound. I always liked high pitch noises. There is definitely nothing that sounds like that on the road. I will be looking at it if the price is good, probably not
Love the look of this car. Definitely feel the Dodge heritage, but has a hint of Camaro in there as well somehow. Sound thing seems a little hokey and gimmicky, but I'm not really into loud engines anyway. Not sure about the transmission if it's just to regress the smooth experience I have with my Charger today to the jerky shifting of years past. Maybe they figure they need something to force you to still come in for servicing. Push to pass? I don't get it.
Yes, Dodge making cars that look like everyone else's cars is what will make this thing successful. They need to make it more Mopar and less European/Tesla. The grille is the only thing "muscle" about the design.
it's about time. Why couldn't Dodge do this when they first brought back the Charger. The back end could be a little longer as the Dodge Charger was in the 60s and 70s.
Looks good. Video is just a little awkward with how they silenced all audio from the event and just kept looping a prerecorded sound bite of the exhaust audio for several minutes until the presentation started.
This thing sounds like the dodge M4S interceptor. The car from The Wraith a 80's movie with Charlie Sheen in it. The car sounds unique and cool. The movie is cool I have watched it like 100 times in my life.
Wait. Electric cars did away with a transmission. The weakest point of every dodge for the last 50 years. So Dodge puts a transmission, the one part it cannot figure out, in its EV. 🤣
i think the patended exhaust stuff is going to be a simple physical amplification of the electric motors their noise, making the sound resonate and vibrate through some sort of tubery.
Exactly like a tuner 2 stroke pipe! Electric motors are a magnetic rotary for of 2 stroke cycle engine. A 1 cylinder rotor 3 phase motors fired 3 overlaps 120 deg per revolution do it’s a virtual rotary magnetic 3 cylinder 2 stroke!
I officially declare this vehicle my first car. I love everything about it, except for the exhaust. When the CEO says "Our next goal was to make this car SOUND like a Dodge"... I find it strange for the iconic muscle cars to sound like V8s and then a ev turns around sounding like a V10 with a camshaft upgrade. It sure is a good thing that Kuniskis is aware of this, so theres furthermore exhaust tuning so that when the car hits production it sounds like a v8.
@@jasongooden917 ever saw its price? For us everyday folks that car is non existent. Also, it is already sold out from what Mate told to Nico 'Beat hamilton in equal machinary in 2016' Rosberg. Even if you have money, you are not getting one.
@@superninja252 muscle cars became mainstream by their engine block, output and displacement. Very few notable muscle cars exist and did not set the trend for “muscle cars” the only worthy muscle car with a V6 was the GNX among one or two others
The V8 is going away. But the Mustang will probably be the last one to go. CAFE for 2025 is 54 mpg -- that will kill off all the V8's. Mercedes stopped selling every V8 they had in the USA this year.
@@InSaN3ViSioN ask any true car guy. V8 is never forgettable. A Tesla will never sound like a V8 or have the same driving experience. I like and appreciate innovation and the future but V8s are very special.
@@InSaN3ViSioN EV can do 0-100 in 1 second and we still don't care. muscle cars are about emotions, sound and experience that your battery with wheels can't provide.
Can’t believe there are people who actually like this. Not even a single feature of this car is worth for a like button. Car industrie is dead, RIP 1879-2022
Uhhhh… Honestly, to me, personally… it almost looks more like the old 2nd Gen Dodge Chargers from 1968-1970. Y’know? The iconic ones that we all know and love?
I'm extremely glad they created that exhaust system. I was scared that they'd make it silent and boring, but it seems that dodge might've actually done it right! Sure, some people aren't a fan of it, but I mean come on dude. You gotta admit it's pretty cool.
Absolutely perfect. Beautiful long lines that curve just right. The return of the Fratzog. A Charger that finally LOOKS LIKE A CHARGER. Long tail lights that remind you heavily of the original. I'm hoping that this new transmission they designed is supposed to behave like a manual because it would be nice to shift through the gears. The exhaust note is weird but holy crap Dodge really won't go silently into that good night. Weird or not, I still kinda like the sound and I'm glad they made an effort to keep the Charger loud for the foreseeable future. I just hope they don't change too much of this car between the reveal and production.
@@HEMGATOR Yeah it is electric? Would you prefer Dodge run itself to the ground and never sell another car again trying to fight change? I'm usually the first person to dunk on electric cars but this actually looks like it has promise. Two door like the original, still has an exhaust sound, and it'll still be fast. Not to mention it seems to have escaped the tendency of electric cars to look like big ultra-futuristic lumps. I'm happy with it. It's the closest we'll get to the originals. If you don't like it, swap it all out for an actual ICE.
Everyone is talking about the sound, but I'll take that sound any day over no sound at all. It's such an important part of the whole driving experience of a combustion engine car!!! At least now we know that there is an electric car that stays true to driving experience!!!!
Not gonna lie, I love how they made it have a different type of "engine note" sounds like a futuristic motor of some sort and I think it fits what it is, having no noise is just bore
My dad was a tow truck driver all his life from 1980 till now. I also have 17 years. The car and truck that would break down most was Dodge. We bought Ram 1 time and once the dealer found out it was converted to a tow truck they cancelled the transmission warranty. Then Hyundai then Kia came out and took the break down title. If you buy a EV dodge when it comes out that is 2 fools meeting at the same time. The buyer and the seller...
Looks amazing!! There’s no doubt that this new car is gonna get lots of haters because of the sound it makes but that’s okay because we all get to new changes, like your phone not having a headphones jack
For me I don't like the sound because I know it's fake. There's no replacing the sound of a V8 anyway, I'd rather them just embrace the EV platform and focus purely on performance. Still, happy to see a company trying to cater to the car enthusiast crowd with their EV rather than most of the boring options that exist right now.
@@ThePegasusAirforce Nailed it. Like how in the video he's talking about exhaust... EV's don't have exhaust. Hybrid's barely do. Making the noise 100% fake.
I saw this 1970 charger at a gas station, took a picture right next to my SRT. The old version look pretty beat up but damn it looks good. Can’t wait for the new era coming soon.
I get that people are disappointed or otherwise upset that this is basically the future of muscle cars, but I think this is just Dodge trying to conform to the changing times. This is their first attempt at remaking muscle car aspects in an EV, hopefully it gets better, but I don't think we should just blame Dodge for doing this and trying to keep up with the times (unless there's something else about them that brings them down that I don't know of)
You were absolutely right, Dodge is just trying to conform to the future path all automakers are going, but in their own way. Here’s my take on it though… they should have went electric with all other vehicles and went electric on the muscle car space last because car guys are the last people that want electric. However, the performance of electric may have changed their minds because it will be faster than any Dodge and they won’t want their new electric grocery getters to outperform their muscle cars that are supposed to be their performance line. Just my 2 cents.
Manufacturers arent just going e out of conformity. Mercedes amg team has shared that they think they cant pull much more powet out of combustion, and that electric is probably a more efficient space to power ratio going forward.
Sweet, it looks gorgeous and is a 2dr again, just needs an LS swap to sound proper and be realistic in my rural area (charging stations are too far and few between)
Yup I love all 3 V8’s Mustang, Camaro, and Mopar and now the Camaro is gone mopar is gone and the only one standing is the Mustang GT but I’m sure pretty soon the V8 mustang will also be killed off sad days for us V8 lovers ☹️
Kudos to dodge for honestly surpassing my expectations for an EV dodge. I expected them to do a much better job than ford did bringing the EV 'muscle car' to market because they generally dont give a crap what the industry thinks. But they've added first time features that the industry hasnt even thought of brining to the consumer market at and made a car that giggles at the mach-e and manages to piss off tesla fanboys for being the opposite of minimalist. I have a tesla now, had a charger previously, and it's hilarious watching EV enthusiasts up in arms despite the 'big bad gas guzzlers' finally going electric. They cant understand why everyone wouldnt want to be drivng a silent boring bubble around.
That “rev” was one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. This car should have its own Netflix comedy special. Bo and Luke Duke are rolling in their graves. 🤦🏽♂️
