Dodge Challenger

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Dodge’s pony car, the 1970 Challenger, arrived at the peak of the classic muscle-car era. Closely related to the 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, the Challenger was offered as a coupe or convertible and could be had with an inline-six-cylinder engine or a broad range of increasingly muscular V-8s, reaching all the way up to the legendary 426 Hemi. The market for muscle and pony cars faded rapidly in the early ’70s, and the original Challenger was gone after 1974. The Challenger name reappeared from 1978-83 on a forgettable rebranded version of the Mitsubishi Galant, and the recent reincarnated Challenger arrived as a 2008 model wearing retro-coupe styling inspired by the 1970 original. Dodge discontinued the Challenger after the 2023 model year, but an all-new Charger that comes as a two- or four-door and offers a choice of electric or gas-engine power is taking the Challenger’s and previous-generation Charger’s spiritual places in Dodge’s model lineup.