Tested: Is the New Electric Dodge Charger Daytona Any Good on Track?

[@jackwicker]

This thing is so ludicrously heavy. Will absolutely eat tires.

[@j.g.pasterjak1782]

Look it may weigh 5800 lbs, but it drives like it only weighs 5300.

[@Nathan_King]

The only winner here is the tire manufacturer. Going to sell twice as many sets of tires because of the weight.

[@future62]

To put the weight in context, a Kia EV9- a 3 row AWD crossover with a similar sized battery- weighs less lol. A Model 3 AWD is damn near 2000lb less. What a joke!

[@Grassrootsmotorsports]

Jokes tend to be funny. This is more performance art.

[@rennkafer13]

To give it more context... it's 40% heavier than the weight of my '71 Dodge Coronet (which is basically a 4 door '71 Charger, 3,478lbs on my corner scales)

[@asymsolutions]

to put it in further context, it's 2,600lbs heavier than my c6z06.

[@turbobros_online1561]

I just picked up an EV6 GT and it's 1000lbs less!

[@RyanGallager]

Nobody asked for this car

[@jackwicker]

Dodge doing its best to retake the title of "captain of the seas" after being briefly mutinied by the BMW M5. Well played, Stellantis!

[@kingdomcoomies518]

Oh wow this is gonna sell like shit

[@_Chev_Chelios]

Weighs as much as an Escalade ESV Platinum. 🐷

[@michaeldecker2725]

240 mile range?? Not if you drive enthusiastically. Can’t wait until someone replicates that sound track in a Yugo. 😂

[@bandwagon240]

Not like Yugos actually still exist, Mikey. They barely existed when they came out, your reference is more outdated than Wayne's World references.

[@Grassrootsmotorsports]

Under 200 miles usable range :(

[@michaeldecker2725]

@ well a Remember a bunch of them around here at the time… well…gotta go party on. Excellent!!🤪

[@YancySmithTurboRexPerformance]

I want a full straight cut gear drivetrain soundtrack! That or the sound of the Batmobile. Either one would probably put a smile on most drivers faces.

[@rennkafer13]

And compared to those "huge, heavy cars from the 70's"... I have a 1971 Dodge Coronet (basically a 4 door '71 Charger), it's about an inch longer overall than the 2025, five inches lower at the roof, two inches narrower, V8/automatic, and weighs 3,478lbs. It doesn't need phony sound generators. Also does about an extra 100 miles on a tank.

[@garagecedric]

If you test it properly dont forget before and after pics on the tyres, thats alot of mass to haul around :). As much weight as my daily+track day car+dirt bike, and i could put another dirt bike in there and still be lighter, pretty wild..

[@Grassrootsmotorsports]

At the end of the day, the Dodge crew burned down what was left of a set of tires for photo ops. It, uh, didn't take long.

[@cbollinger8755]

Still waiting for an EV soundtrack = The Jetsons

[@whiteyshark5826]

Ha Gaaaaaaaayyyyyy

[@chrispaterson_Product]

Wonder how much the optional towing package will cost 😂

[@LGB-FJB]

I can't wait to see one of these get totalled feom driving in the snow.

[@MrMoparWagon]

Electric muscle car is an oxymoron. The vast majority of people dont want the battery charger. They want a rwd gas version.

[@j.g.pasterjak1782]

How did we completely overlook the nickname "battery charger?" Bravo, sir.

[@_Chev_Chelios]

Right! Everyone knows that electric cars don’t make muscle car power. And they don’t have any possibility of being fast obviously. They’re all just “golf carts“ obviously.

[@pa60pilot]

Muscle cars are pretty boring, honestly. I had zero interest in anything Dodge has produced in the last 50 years, but the Banshee version of this car might be good enough to be my next daily driver. The current versions are a little lacking in power, given the mass.

[@michaeldecker2725]

I’m guessing a switch will make it any driven wheel style you want.

[@stephbarbershop2518]

This thing will be used for street takeovers and high speed police chases. ASP troopers will need to learn to handle Lithium fires.

[@clintonhayes670]

Yeah that’s why tire rack is there to see how well tires hold up on a three ton truck yum car

[@MrKook]

This thing weighs more than a 2003 Suburban.

[@ALMX5DP]

It also weighs more than a 2025 Suburban.

[@americanAlienBoy]

My 2001 F350 diesel weighs only 150 lbs more.

[@chuckp8705]

The car they should have really been building when they had the hemi.

[@bandwagon240]

Complete your sentence.

[@timking2822]

It'll take a while for ICE manufactures to catch up to the technology of EV industry leaders such as Tesla.

[@LGB-FJB]

I'll buy one...for a dollar.

[@razormaku8045]

dodge, what are you guys doing?

[@bandwagon240]

I'm so tired of these overweight vehicles and their manufacturers trying to normalize their portly mass. Looking at you, BMW.

[@ferrocerium83]

should have compared it to a 2023 dodge charger on the track, this video was nonsense

[@jaredhuang2225]

17 ft and the rear legroom is still atrocious.

[@Grassrootsmotorsports]

Actually the rear legroom is pretty solid. We had three large size dudes in the back of one at the launch event and everyone had a surprising amount of space. It's one of the few things they really leveraged the giant platform for properly.

[@Turshin]

Good legroom what are you on about?

[@jaredhuang2225]

@@Grassrootsmotorsports Thanks for the note, I've only seen press photos of the rear and they always have the front seats all the way back to so its hard to tell. I'm glad they finally made it livable back there.