In an age when cars are becoming more homogenized and, as a result, less compelling, the 2015 Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack goes an entirely thrilling and bold direction — by refusing to evolve.
Don’t get me wrong. This special edition of the Charger is packed with prime engineering and technology. For example, even with just its standard features and no personalization or upgrading, the Scat Pack offers a 6.4-liter V8 SRT Hemi MDS Engine. To use and control that power, Dodge includes four-piston Red Brembo Brakes, high performance-tuned suspension, and dual bright exhaust tips.
Those bells and whistles aren’t developed casually, and they’re not offered haphazard. This is a car engineered from the start to take the standard Charger – already a well-regarded basic muscle car — and drive it insane.
And, for a ride starting out at $30,099, insane is exactly the term for the Scat Pack. And, it’s a wonderful, grinning, in your face insanity. It is a true muscle car — a wonderful and awesome dinosaur facing the brink of extinction. In a world full of self-worshiping, sniveling false intellectuals, environmentalist fascists who become more oppressive with every incoming piece of evidence that their cause is a lie and de-balled, fainting sheep afraid to embrace their own freedom, the Scat Pack powers past them without offering even the respect of a pitying look over its shoulder.
The driving experience is more of a jolt to the heart that any double-padded defibrillator. The car is explosively loud, relentlessly powerful and unapologetically big. It doesn’t handle as well as the Charger Hellcat – its more expensive and track minded sister — but that sells for significantly more money, too. This Scat Pack is not built for the track. It exists to dominate the streets, to crush rivals on the quarter mile between stoplights and to frighten children.
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The only complaint I can muster is a true manual transmission is not available in the Scat Pack. There’s a sport-tuned automatic stick on the floor, but you can’t clutch and grab a gear out of that roaring, exploding 6.4 liter engine. That’s too bad because a classic muscle car of ages passed always had that manual gearbox to forge the maximum driving experience.
It’s possible that the engineers behind this beautiful beast think there’s too much raw power in the Scat Pack to allow the average driver — even a passionate one — enough time to manage all the fury.
However, for a car so dedicated to sensual experience as the 2015 Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack, we can all forgive it for having a shift and forget transmission. This is a car built only for fun, for intimidation, for that universal middle finger to every politically correct, feeble-spirited, perpetually offended, hand-wringing, bloodless, Smart Car driving turnip on the road.
When a car like the Scat Pack prowls up to them, those cowardly turnips must take notice and step aside one last time before they sadly take over and remove every last ounce of fun from the world.
