![]() Throttle response sharpens and the transmission shifts quicken with a touch of the “Sport” button on the lower dash, and manual shifts are summoned with a tug on the zinc paddles. From a stoplight, it remains oh-so-easy to light up the optional three-season Goodyears, skinny as they are with only 245 mm of width, though the rear end hooks up quite quickly with a more judicious application of the gas pedal. Still, like the SRT 392, the Scat Pack feels spectacularly quick. Hoping for lower weight with the (slightly) lower-rent decor? Sorry, but Dodge claims that the 4400-pound Scat Pack is only 10 pounds lighter than the SRT 392. Best of all, the Dodge Performance Pages-and launch control-are present and accounted for. A unique Scat Pack “splash screen” comes on at startup in the instrument cluster, too. Inside, the SRT’s rad, flat-bottom steering wheel is replaced by a so-called “performance” flat-ish-bottom wheel, which has a thick, contoured rim and perforated leather, and the gray fabric seats feature the Scat Pack bee on the front seatbacks. ![]() Styling is virtually identical, however, save for the Scat Pack’s black rear spoiler and Scat Pack grille badge. The 20-inch wheels change in design but not in diameter, although tire width drops considerably from the SRT’s 275/40 Pirelli P Zeros to 245/45 Goodyear RS-A all-seasons, with Goodyear F1 Supercar rubber optional. The SRT’s computer-adjustable Bilstein dampers give way to fixed-rate Bilsteins, and the front brake rotors shrink slightly to 14.2 inches with four-piston Brembo grabbers, down from the 15.4-inch/six-piston Brembos on the SRT 392. Some of the SRT 392’s amenities, like leather upholstery, heated front and rear seats, a power-adjustable steering column, and HID headlamps, move to the options list. As with its coupe counterpart, the Challenger R/T Scat Pack, the Charger R/T Scat Pack is just as heavy on the power as the SRT 392 model but goes a bit lighter on the frills. But we want to make sure that that performance element is there. ![]() “We’re now putting the 6.4 at a price point people can afford,” said Dodge exec Bob Broderdorf. Dodge is making that good thing more widely available by putting it into another model-the Charger R/T, this time-and lowering the price of entry. And we’d argue that its 485-hp 6.4-liter Hemi V-8 is a very good thing. ![]()
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