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The Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger and a long list of other Chrysler Group vehicles that rely on the Hemi or Pentastar engines will skip their normal summer downtime in order to keep up with the high demand for these engines

The Hellcat head logo has become the most recognizable aspects of the 707 horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, but a great many people forget that this familiar face of the Hellcat package wasn’t on the car when the car was first introduced or when the first examples were built.

After introducing the new 2016 Dodge Viper American Club Racer last week, the Chrysler Group has begun taking orders for the most track capable street legal Viper of all time – with a price starting at $117,895.

Today at the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant in Detroit, the 2016 Dodge Viper American Club Racer made its grand debut with a host of features that the company promises will make the new ACR the fastest street legal Viper ever – and that is a serious claim.

This past weekend was one of the worst for the modern Dodge Viper endurance racing teams, with a fluke accident a few laps into the race taking the #33 Viper Exchange GT3-R out of commission, but the team continues prepping for their 24 Hours of LeMans entry later this year.

The sales numbers from the Chrysler Group are in and with 6,771 Dodge Challenger models sold last month, April 2015 is officially the best sales month ever for the modern era of the Challenger.

The sales boom for the 2015 Ford Mustang continued in April 2015, posting the best sales figures in almost a decade while once again comfortably outselling both the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger – and Mustang sales are likely to continue to improve as we get into the summer months.

The Chrysler Group is planning a voluntary recall of select Dodge Viper, Jeep Wrangler and Jeep Liberty models that were built with a manual transmission over a concern that the clutch pedal interlock system may not work correctly – possibly causing the car or SUV to lurch forward unexpectedly when started.

The 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and the 2015 Tesla Model S P85D sedan are two of the best performing sedans on sale today and the folks at Motor Trend have just rolled out a great new video showing these two very different American super-sedans duking it out in a variety of tests and – surprisingly – the Charger gets the nod from MT as the baddest sedan on the block.

A new video has surfaced on YouTube showing a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat blasting down the quarter mile in just 10.71 with no modifications other than “racing tires” – a time which the video claims is an unofficial record for the 707hp Mopar muscle car.

The new 2015 Dodge Charger funny cars continued their dominance of the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series this past weekend with yet another all-Charger final round – with Ron Capps grabbing the second win of the second and his NAPA Charger bringing Dodge its 5th win in 6 events.

The 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is the most powerful, the fastest and the quickest stock 4-door sedan in the world, but a new video online shows the 707 horsepower muscle sedan succeeding at yet another motorsport – drifting.

The 2015 Dodge Viper GTC offers bespoke design options like no other American production car before it and to let customers experienced just how crazy you can get with the Viper GTC package, Dodge has put together a unique configurator site online that proves to be a great way to kill time on a slow afternoon.

This past weekend, 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat owner Ricci Cavallaro took his stock Mopar muscle car to Pittsburgh Raceway Park for the first time and with nothing more than Nitto NT05 tires, his first run down the track was an incredible 10.97 at 129 miles per hour – followed by two more runs in the 10 second range.

Imagine if a full size electric truck was produced by Ford, Dodge, Chevy or Toyota. How many truck fans would buy them? Would they help to make EVs widespread?

Over the past few weeks, word has spread around the internet that the Chrysler Group’s Ram Truck brand was working on a new large truck-based sport utility vehicle that will be named the Ramcharger, but Im sorry to inform everyone who didn’t realize this at first that the Ramcharger is yet another stupid April Fool’s joke pulled by a publication looking to score traffic with fake news.

There were two examples of the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat available at this weekend’s Mecum collector’s car auction in Houston, with one selling for $80,000 and the other selling for $110,000 – both of which are considerably higher prices than MSRP.

Dodge brand CEO Tim Kuniskis recently spoke with the LA Times about the popularity of the 2015 Dodge Charger and Challenger with the 707hp Hellcat Hemi, and when addressing the huge backlog of orders coupled with more people who want to place orders, Kuniskis stated very clearly that the automaker will “make them all happy."

After receiving a handful of emails from people who have recently ordered a 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat or 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat, it seemed like a good time to explain the difference between ordering a car through the order bank and simply placing an order with a dealership – as orders being accepted right now aren’t getting you much closer to owning a 707hp Mopar muscle car.

The 2015 Dodge Challenger and 2015 Dodge Charger made their video game debut last month as part of the new Forza Fast and the Furious standalone expansion pack, but today, the cars of the Fast and Furious series come to the full Forza Horizon 2 game as part of the April DLC car pack.

The 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat driver who took a beating from a new Tesla Model S P85D a few months back has gotten his rematch and this time, the 707 horsepower muscle car handed the world’s quickest EV a proper beating.

The 2015 Dodge Charger funny car continued its domination of the 2015 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, as Jack Beckman was the first car driver across the line in all three rounds of the 2015 Four Wide Nationals – making it four wins in four events for the new Charger race car.

The Dodge Challenger did something in March 2015 that it has not done before, outselling the Chevrolet Camaro for the first time since the 5th generation Camaro was introduced for the 2010 model year – showing just how big of a difference the light refresh and the extra injection of Hellcat horsepower made as Challenger sales numbers continue to grow.

The 2015 Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger powered by the 707 horsepower Hellcat Hemi remain locked out of the order banks at dealerships around the country, but in an effort to meet the crazy high demand of these record-setting muscle cars, Dodge has ordered 1,000 examples of the supercharged Hemi to be built – although it is unclear what number that 1,000 is being added to.

The new Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is the quickest and fastest 4-door production sedan in the world, but when the newest Alpina version of the BMW M5 arrives later this year with 591 horsepower and 590lb-ft of torque, it will have a top speed that will challenge that of the 707 horsepower Charger.

Today we bring you a look at some of the Dodge Magnum show cars in attendance at the recent 2015 Spring Festival after featuring the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger over the past two days – with the sporty wagon not being as common at the show, but Magnum owners made sure that their cars were as well represented as the others.

Today we bring you the second installation in our Top Ten of the 2015 LX Spring Festival, looking at the ten Dodge Charger show cars in Irvine, California that I found to be the coolest in the massive crowd of modern Mopar performance vehicles.