2025 Dodge Charger Daytona coming March 5

The production-spec 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona will make its public debut on March 5 – about 18 months after the 2022 Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept broke cover for the first time.

Confirmation of the reveal date was first published by Automotive News and then later verified by Motor1, the former of which interviewed Dodge/SRT sales and marketing senior vice-president Matt McAlear at the JD Power Auto Summit in Las Vegas.

“This is the next generation of muscle,” he told Automotive News.

“We’re not going for the lowest drag co-efficient, we’re not going for the highest mileage. We’re going to truly set a new bar.”

The bar in question is muscle car performance and with the recently teased top-spec Daytona set to inherit a Maserati Folgore-derived tri-motor powertrain good for more than 660kW, it’s fair to say Dodge isn’t messing around.

Speaking of the pre-production car, McAlear said the production version would look “extremely close” to the vehicle shown in the teaser images, with the wheels and wing mirrors set to be the only alterations to comply with government regulations.

The imposing looking coupe will back up its supercar performance with old-school muscle car performance to match, given the controversial ‘fratzonic chambered exhaust’ (FCE) is being retained and destined for the production cars.

“Having that vibration, that sound, truly makes a muscle car what it is,” McAlear said.

“It’s just as loud as today’s Hellcat. We’re not building a commodity, we’re building personas.”

Supposedly good for up to 126 decibels, the FCE is essentially a throttle-influenced sound generator that will more than likely work in tandem with an ‘eRupt’ multi-speed transmission intended to retain the visceral experience of gear changes in a similar fashion to the Hyundai IONIQ 5 N’s ‘N e-shift’ system – though McAlear didn’t reference this feature in his interview.

As we’ve previously reported, the new Dodge Charger will be available with a force-fed six-cylinder petrol engine outputting up to 373kW/644Nm, while the Daytona versions will all be battery-electric, comprising single-, dual- and tri-motor configurations.

The base single-motor set-up is reportedly good for about 300kW, the dual-motor for 500kW and the aforementioned Maserati-based tri-motor set-up for more than 660kW.

Sadly, it’s highly unlikely the new Charger will be factory-built in right-hand drive or officially offered in Australia following the game-changing muscle car’s release in the US later this year.

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