2013 Dodge Charger New Car Review
2013 Dodge Charger New Car Review
By Bob Plunkett
On a blacktop race track at Chrysler's Michigan vehicle test facility, a juicy 2013 SRT8 Super Bee edition of Charger -- Dodge's 4-door sports sedan wearing the nameplate of a 1966 muscle car icon -- runs the straightaway at lickety-split speed in our special test drive.
This modern muscle car flashes the menacing face of a bulldog and wears shapely body bulges over the sleek profile of a coupe despite a pair of doors hanging off each side.
It also carries the formidable credentials of a street-legal racer: A lowered chassis with taut suspension tweaked for performance, massive 20-inch alloy wheels wrapped in Goodyear Eagle RS-A performance tires, big four-piston brake calipers and a humongous 6.4-liter V8 engine that's a high-tech rendition of Chrysler's fabled HEMI plant with hemispheric combustion chambers.
The 2013 Charger SRT8 Super Bee special edition, named after Dodge Super Bee muscle cars produced from 1969 to 1971, deletes some luxury equipment and electronic gadgets from the 2013 Charger SRT8 to pare the price tag and forge a leaner muscle machine dressed in a distinctive can't-miss-me paint job.
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