Designer envisages 2026 Dodge Charge SRT8 with a glorious Hemi

If Dodge wants to win the hearts of enthusiasts with the new charge, this should examine these rendering closely

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Design a car that seems modern while paying tribute to its predecessors is a delicate balance. Except too hard on nostalgia, and this may look like a pastiche; Push too far into the future and heritage is lost. Dodge, however, seems to have struck a solid common ground with the new charger.

It clearly channels the heritage of the brand’s muscular cars while incorporating many contemporary design clues, preparing the way for a model that could stay for years. Of course, the new electric charger did not exactly blunt the criticism in terms of driving dynamics, but at least it seems the game.

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However, for a designer, the new charger is not aggressive enough. David Baylis Recently, he wanted to imagine what a petrol gas version could look like, and that’s what he found. It looks shiny and shows how Dodge could make the powerful car muscle even more bizarre with future variants.

The front whole has been revised. It takes an influence of the emblematic Dodge Charge of 1969 and the first challengers. Like its classic predecessors, it has subtle headlights nestled behind blackened gates, giving it a sinister and almost hidden shine. The contribution of bumper and lower air have also been enlarged, ensuring that the car can swallow a lot of air (or perhaps one or two birds in the process).

Illustrations David Baylis Design

There is also a new hood that adds more and more attitude. It is inspired by the previous generation charger Hellcat and includes massive air consumption in the center and two air extraction vents on each side. The talented designed also imagined also considered the charger with flared wheel arches, which gives it a wide and planted position recalling the old broad body of Hellcat. The rear changes are more limited, although a new diffuser and larger exhaust pipes add to the aggressive aesthetics of the car.

Given that the charger of the new age only recently arrives on the market, Dodge has only shown it in a selection of configurations at two and four doors in the forms of internal combustion and EV. But as the model evolves, it is almost inevitable that more hardcore variants follow.

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A successor to the old Hellcat is certainly in the field of possibility, although any future high performance version will not have supercharged V8. Instead, it would rely on an amplified version of the new six -cylinder double turbocharger from Dodge (unless the next CEO of Stellantis suddenly makes an 180). That this configuration can be up to Hellcat’s inheritance is another question entirely.