- The 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona will come in an array of paint colours, but it launches with just four
- Initially just white, black, and silver would be available off the bat, but Peel Out orange and Bludicrous are now to be included in the order books when they’re first cracked open
- Dodge first started sticking creative paint colour names on its option lists back in the ’70s
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When the 2025 Charger Daytona finally appears on dealer lots, Dodge customers will have a variety of paint colours from which to select. True to form for the brand, many of them are as expressive as they are creatively named. The sole no-charge option in Canada will be White Knuckle, with all other shades costing an extra $695, according to the Dodge build-and-price tool.
On tap in that bracket are Peel Out (orange), Triple Nickel (grey), and After Dark (blue). Destroyer Grey and Redeye should be self-explanatory. There is also DB Black, which officially stands for Diamond Black, but the unspoken inspiration is from a table in the coroner’s office.
You might have to wait for a few of those to show up in the order books, even if they show up on online configurators right now. From what we gather, the launch slate will be limited to White Knuckle, Diamond Black, Peel Out, and a different blue hue, Bludicrous. That’s an improvement over the previously announced palette of just White Knuckle, Black Diamond, and Triple Nickel.
Nonetheless, all of those above options are good for both the $56,190 R/T and Scat Pack, the latter of which is a $32,000 option package in this country. That’s the one which cranks output to 670 horsepower and brings with it the likes of Donut Mode, Drift Mode, an augmented heads-up display, and a 300-km/h speedometer. The electric drive motors work in concert with a single-speed gearbox, so the days of banging through the gears in a Charger Daytona are over for now.
Of course, there will also be gasoline-powered variants of the Charger appearing next year, a car whose timetable has been moved up to placate demand from those of us with a gas tank for a brain. Look for the twin-turbocharged 3.0L inline-six under the hood, likely to be offered in a couple of different states of tune to make between 420 and 550 horsepower. Scuttlebutt also has our jaws flapping about the possibility – as suggested on a Motor Trend tribute to the V8 engine – that all this gear can be yanked out and a Hemi crate engine stuffed into its place. We shall see.
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