November 9th 2016
If you have been waiting desperately for the next-gen Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger to arrive, we regret to inform that won’t happen anytime soon. The automaker has plans to delay the production of its most popular muscle cars till at least 2020.
The news comes directly from an internal FCA source and an FCA supplier who revealed the information from a document sent out to the Canadian auto workers union, Unifor by FCA. The source also mentions FCA is going to discontinue one of its large sedans by 2020 which will probably be the Chrysler 300. After that, the new next-gen Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger will be launched.
The redesigned Dodge Challenger and Charger will ride on the company’s new Giorgio platform, which underpins the recently launched 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia. Although, the Giorgio platform will be stretched and widened in both the models, but it will be made to reduce the overall weight of the cars. Moreover, the Giorgio platform is flexible enough to support a convertible layout, thus we can expect an open-top variant of Dodge Charger or Challenger to arrive in the future too.