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Is it a muscle car or a family car? A car for muscle families? The Dodge Charger R/T Plus raises a trunkful of questions. This Charger looks the street-racing part: Hunky and handsome, nostalgic without being a retro Xerox. Unlike a Mustang, it hauls people and their stuff in cushy comfort, in part because it's freaking huge -- almost seven inches longer than a BMW 5-Series. What looks like a trunk is actually a cleverly disguised hatch, big enough to swallow an unholy amount of luggage, food and wine on a trip to Wood's Hole on Cape Cod. There's a healthy 468 horsepower from a 3.0-liter, twin-turbo Hurricane lnline six, and a genuinely decent and appealing interior -- especially by the plastic-cheeseball standards of muscle cars.
And the handling easily beats the Mopars of old, though that's the lowest bar imaginable.
But despite ample low-end torque, the Hurricane-spun Charger just doesn't grab me by the throat, or other anatomical parts, the way a muscle car should. This six-cylinder Charger doesn't make the right noises or spin the right tires. It's the substitute teacher who took a wrong turn into a class full of hooligans. The dearly departed Dodge Demon and Hellcat always transformed me (back) into that idiot adolescent within the first 10 minutes, and I'd drive around melting tires and belching from stoplights. This Charger doesn't do that. As noted, it's a surprisingly versatile family cruiser. But I'm not convinced that's what Charger fans are looking for. A Stellantis that's busily dropping V-8s into anything that moves needs to get eight cylinders back into this car in a hurry, if that's even possible. Maybe I'd feel differently with the 550-horsepower Scat Pack version, but I doubt it. And at an eye-opening $62,870 out-the-door, it's priced like a (smaller) BMW or Benz, or roughly on par with a midsize Genesis sedan. And those are genuine, tech-laden luxury cars.
01 Sep 2026
My latest for The Verge, an in-depth review of the Rivian R2, among the world's most eagerly awaited EVs. Bottom line, it rocks, including on rocks.
09 Jun 2026
The sun in South Beach rises on the SP40 Speedster, a hand built, $560,000 homage to Edsel Ford's Special Speedster, a boattail design that Ford never actually produced. Too bad I forgot my sunscreen. @roadandtrack
10 Mar 2026
Corvette ZR1X insanity: 1250 hybrid horsepower, 233 mph top speed, 0-60 in 1.7 seconds.
10 Feb 2026
Chillin in marvelous Mexico City over New Year's. (Feliz Anos all!) Clearly, Musk is no match for this Mayan dude, even if his head is even bigger...
03 Jan 2026
Driving the Maserati GT2 Stradale in Andalusia. Like the local olive oil I'm sampling at a Phillipe Starck-designed model farm, it's intense yet smooth...
14 Feb 2025
In the Super Bowl of sports cars, the Porsche 718 Spyder RS is a serious contender, with moves like Mahomes: A mid engine beaut with a 493-horsepower, 9,000-rpm cannon from the 911 GT3. Now I have to make sure to not miss the football game...
09 Feb 2025
New-school design, old-school V12 engine: Say buongiorno to the (insanely fast)Ferrari 12Cilindri.
#Ferrari #12cilindri #supercars #cars
14 Sep 2024
The 2025 Mercedes-Benz AMG G 63, in the coat of mud that too few owners will bother slathering on. Oh, we drove the hell out of the new electric version too, the G 580.
@mercedesbenz #mercedes #mercedesg #suv #electriccar #ev
03 May 2024
Creamsicle-orange McLarens are fine and all, but get a load of the "Ceramic Gray" on the 750S Spider, with just a touch of lavender under the right light; such as the Mojave Desert in Nevada. A colleague called McLaren's latest scorcher ($469,000 as tested, from a $354,000 base) "unnecessarily fast," but I found it entirely necessary. The company's twin-turbo V-8 (once flat and nearly Evinrude-esque) finally sounds the supercar part, via a new and obsessively tuned stainless-steel exhaust. New gearing (a 15-percent shorter final drive) packs the 740 horses in stronger, druggier doses, for insanely quick rips through the gears. Third gear peaked at 90 mph, fourth at 110 mph, fifth at 140 mph. I didn't dare find out where sixth and seventh lead, aside from a jail cell. (Top speed drops to 206 mph from 212 mph in the departed, taller-geared 720S, but no one will care). And keeping speeds in check is really the only issue with the McLaren, other than trying to climb in or out: As per my Autoblog review, "adandon all hope of grace, ye who enter here." In the 1.5-million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area, I kept reminding myself that Park Rangers don't consider racing as "recreation." License immolation aside, an altogether brilliant supercar. Bravo #McLaren. Keep 'em coming.
28 Feb 2024
It's going to be a great year. Peace and good luck to everyone in 2023. And Go Ukraine!
02 Jan 2023
Finally driving one of my favorite vintage cars in Pebble Beach, a Mercedes 280 SL, circa 1968. Should have bought one when I had the chance...
20 Aug 2022
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