New Dodge Charger EV vs 1969 Charger

40 thoughts on “New Dodge Charger EV vs 1969 Charger”

1. I love it…I want one! Just waiting for my ship to come in.

2. The real reason is because they no longer wanted black people fucking up the Dodge brand. Simple as that.

3. I don't see anybody doing hood slides or climbing through the window of the charger ev

4. Ahahhahaahhaha…..hahahahahaha

5. I didn't blame Dodge, I blamed Stellantis.

6. the ev grill is a horrible look for this car imo

7. To the new Cahrdger…. my PS One called—it wants its lousy racing game sounds back.

8. first off regarding the name, if you're gonna make an electric car, especially an electric muscle car, charger is the one that comes to mind. I like the Mustang Mach E, it's a good car, I've driven it actually feels like you're sitting in a Mustang, but they should not have used that name. Mustangs are not SUVs.

   That's not the case for the charger. The charger was always a big car, my dad had a 67 charger fastback, and we could carry a lot of stuff in that car. It would've benefited from being a hatchback, but the trunk lid was so large it came close to being a hatchback. The backseats were really big, my mom used to drive that car, and I would sit in the back, and there was plenty of space. And so in a lot of dimensions, this charger is very similar to that one. That was a big two-door car.

   Regarding the price: yes, it is a very high price for this car. Especially when you have similar or better performance from a Tesla for $30,000 less. I don't know how much Challenger costs, but I believe it is also a little less than this car, at least with similar options.

   All that said, I'm one of the people who has one of these. I leased it just prior to the ending of the incentives. Comparing it to other similar vehicles, the amount that I put down, and the amount that I'm paying a month, that was a very good deal. The net sticker for a Daytona RT ended up being around $44,000. That is very close to the average cost of a car today. And it is very similar to the net cost of competing electric vehicles. All cars are more expensive today, so I don't think it's fair to try to see this as a $28,000 car, but definitely at $85,000, or at $60,000 even, it is a fair criticism to say that's very expensive for what this delivers.

   Regarding comparing it to the 69 charger, I don't think it's entirely fair to say it doesn't live up to that name. In my opinion it absolutely Does. It's Fast, it's comfortable, which my dad's 67 charger was comfortable, it's stylish, it's big which isn't necessarily a good thing, but that was true of the 60s chargers as well, and the question is who is this for?

   I owned a 98 Mustang GT convertible automatic, and I currently also own a Fiat 500 E. I ended up with the Mustang because I came into some money I could buy a brand new car. It was the best combination of convertible, acceleration, an OK amount of storage space, and cool to look at. For the time, it was the best two-door convertible in my opinion. I like the noise that it made in tunnels, and I liked how I could accelerate in traffic. That said, over the years I spent a lot of money on rebuilding an engine, replacing a transmission, and at a certain point, I could no longer afford to do the repairs, which is why I ended up with the Fiat 500.

   A lot of people put the Fiat 500 E down because it was a compliance EV. That means it didn't have all the advantages of electric vehicle, and the range is about 85, maybe 100 miles if you're lucky. But I like that little car. The car itself, which is also available as a gas version, is tiny, easy to park, surprisingly spacious inside for things like going to Costco. It is not spacious inside for people. It's really a two seater, even though it has four seats. More than once I've considered taking out the back seats to permanently increase the storage. The electric version has plenty of pick up between zero and 30 miles an hour. It is limited to 88 miles an hour top speed, but that's never really been a problem for me. My commute is 17 miles each way a couple times a week, and then the rest of the time I work from home. with charging at home available, the 85 mile range is more than enough to do 90% of what I wanna do.

   The only problem is sometimes I wanna do something which will take me further, and while charging from 28 to 80% on the Fiat only takes about a half an hour 45 minutes, I wouldn't wanna drive it a few hundred miles say from Los Angeles to San Diego. So I would rent cars for those kind of trips. And I would rent Evies, so I'd end up with a polestar, or a Tesla, or a Mustang. I hated the Tesla. I don't like having so much in the touchscreen, the seats were uncomfortable, but the worst part was for some reason I got motion sickness while driving. WHILE DRIVING.

   So I'm doing well enough that I can afford a lease payment, and I keep the Fiat because a lease is just a long-term rental. I ended up with the charger EV for these reasons:

   It looks cool
   The fake engine noise is silly, and I turned it off, but it is very funny
   It is comfortable
   It's Fast
   It drives really well
   It has easily over 200 miles of range, and if you use it the whole battery you should be able to get 300 if you need it
   With DC fast charging, you can go from 20 to 80% in about an hour

   so it's not the perfect solution for everyone's EV needs, but it does what I needed to do which is a similar logic for me and the Fiat.

   And I wanna make something really clear about how it drives: this is a big car. But it does not drive like one. They've tuned the steering in such a way so that you don't have to go handover hand 13 times to make a turn. It's really quite impressive how easy it is to point this car where you want to go and have it go there. My guess is that's just a feature of most new vehicles, but I will say that in the Mustang, you have to turn the wheel twice or more around to make a U-turn. with the charger, I don't think I've ever had to turn the wheel around twice to make any kind of turn or U-turn. In any case, it drives really well it steers really well.

   There are some other knit pics, like how the parking warning system works, and some other infotainment bugs, but overall, I'm very happy driving it.

   In two years, a lot of these EVS will have come back from their leases. Given the way people feel about them, I'm willing to bet that they will be very cheap, just like my Fiat was(I got it used). I think people should look at this car again in two years. If you can find a lightly used one of these for under $20,000, you should really seriously consider it.

9. Wonder if they took care of Randy's car for helping them out or just sent home broken

10. only if car companies would understand we dont and will never want futuristic look on cars they can be the most hideous things/object yes a change is good but why why just why

11. Why not just get a Tesla model s it has more hp and has more faster acceleration

12. I prefer the old, slower, less reliable, less fuel efficient Charger any day.

13. The 69 is a charger!! The 2025 is a junk ass Fiat !! 🤣🤣🤣

14. The lease deals on these right now are insane I might get one just because of the price. Lol

15. It's unfortunate that stellantis is junk

16. that 69 Charger reminds me of the general lee from the dukes of hazzard movie

17. Id give two left nuts for a 69 dodge charger 😢

18. Might be faster, but it lacks every drop of sound and soul, and tries to fool people with good looks. I’d never say it looks bad, but it makes it worse in a way, because you know it has no heart, personality, or emotion. And it’s $25-30k more than it should be. It’ll sit where it belongs – a few unfortunate showrooms and the write-off column of expenses and losses for the year.

19. Bro this car is so lit 🔥 got mine last week …no regrets..

20. Should have put rich Corinithian leather in there and called it a Cordoba.

21. No off-road?

22. It’s just not really a charger 🤷 I mean dodge wanna make this as an suv sure but it is NOT what it used to be

23. 3:40 Nolan: “It’s actually an SUV in charger clothing”

    Soooo it’s a sheep in wolf’s clothing?

24. If they remade the 69 made it look the exact same it would sell sell

25. If I had $100k to get a new Daytona Charger EV, I would get a 1970 Plymouth HEMI Cuda

26. Them naming an EV after a combustion vehicle, and naming it after the daytona? It's almost the same garbage Ford did with the "Mustang" Mach-E

27. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO A VIDEO OF THE 1970 DODGE SUPER BEE VS THE NEW DODGE SUPER BEE OR DODGE HORNET

28. I'll take the 69

29. Beautiful Piece of Engineering. Problem is your selling a smartly put together piece of machinery to Mopar Heads. It’s like selling microwave to a troglodytes.

30. One came in to the local Dodge dealer a few months ago, in Canadian dollars it was $107,900… sorry I would rather put that kind of money into another asset, like a down payment for a rental property that will make me more money.

31. It's a pretty awesome car, but it's also pretty expensive

32. The Thumbnail really defines how horrible the Ev looks, thats rough

33. No one wanted the gas powered Charger and Challenger to go away. No one asked for an all electric Charger yet Stellantis felt they could slam it on us at a price that is so absurd, it's laughable. The financial pain they are feeling right now is 100% self-inflicted.

34. It has a fake exhaust sound 🤣🤣🤣 Omg that’s gay

35. EV's are a niche market. In the drag race, just 'warming up the tires' cost a thousand dollars worth of rubber. Like on an actual dragster.

36. 11.64 at 118 is not fast lol

37. People who think ev is better on the environment clearly haven't seen a lithium mine

38. Nope you can keep your ev junk

39. So new charger sucks. Got it thanks

40. 🤮this thing is such a turd, I heard rumors that they are scrambling to figure out how to make a gasoline variant so they don’t lose their asses.

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