2013 Dodge Challenger: launch control and Track mode

This record's own dek describes 2013 as the year launch control and a Track mode reach the SRT8 392, the R/T lists at $29,995, and appearance groups named Rallye Redline, Blacktop and R/T Redline sold the look without new mechanicals. This record's own overview states that the 2013 Challenger ran six non-SRT trims, SXT, SXT Plus, Rallye Redline, R/T, R/T Plus and R/T Classic, with the 305-hp Pentastar V-6 or the 5.7 HEMI V-8, and that Dodge advertised the R/T as America's most affordable V-8 muscle car at that $29,995 base price.^1,2

The SRT8 392, at $43,425 plus $995 destination, gained standard launch control and a third, Track, mode for its adaptive damping, per this record's own overview, with Chrysler claiming 0-60 mph in the high four-second range and a mid-12-second quarter mile with the automatic, a claim carried in this record's own performance section. This record's own overview also states that no model-year production figure was found, with Chrysler's reported 51,462 calendar-year 2013 US Challenger sales reused as the best available substitute.^3,4

This record's own production section documents three worldwide color-production counts: 1,769 Plum Crazy cars across R/T Classic and SRT8 392, 1,103 HEMI Orange cars across R/T models and SRT8 392, and 377 TorRed cars, TorRed being new to the SRT8 392 for the year. Its own notes state plainly that no 2013 model-year production total or package installation counts were found in a Chrysler source, and that these three color rows are separate slices rather than a partition of any total.⁵

Four engines are documented: the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 at 305 hp and 268 lb-ft, the 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 at 375 hp and 410 lb-ft with the manual, the same 5.7 at 372 hp and 400 lb-ft with the automatic, and the 6.4-liter (392) SRT HEMI V-8 at 470 hp and 470 lb-ft on the SRT8 392. Two transmissions are documented, the TR-6060 six-speed manual, standard on the SRT8 392 and available on the R/T, and the five-speed automatic with AutoStick, offered across all trims and standard on the V-6.^6,7

This record documents an extensive options list: the R/T Redline Group and the Blacktop package, each $1,995, the Rallye Redline model built on the SXT Plus, and a run of lettered equipment groups covering connectivity, sound and Mopar appearance content. Ten exterior colors are documented, four of them new for the year and three carrying the production counts noted above, alongside six interior trim descriptions and a specifications section carrying preliminary curb weights of 3,834 lb for the SXT and 4,082 lb for the R/T, an estimated 4,160 lb for the SRT8 392 automatic, a manufacturer-claimed top speed of 182 mph manual against 175 mph automatic for the SRT8 392, and March 2013 and May 2013 availability starts for Plum Crazy and HEMI Orange respectively.^8,9

This record's own performance section carries a single manufacturer claim, the mid-12-second quarter mile for the SRT8 392 automatic already noted above, and its identification section is empty for the year, a documented gap rather than an assumption that no VIN or plant data was ever published. Its conflicts and unpublished leads sections are likewise both empty, leaving production, prices, engines, transmissions, the options list, paint, interiors and specifications as the whole of this record's sourced coverage for 2013.³