2022 Dodge Challenger: the penultimate HEMI year, and Jailbreak

This record's own dek describes 2022 as the penultimate HEMI Challenger year: the same nine-model range, plus Jailbreak, a $995 package that opened the whole option catalogue on the Redeye Widebody and raised it to 807 hp. This record's own overview states that the lineup repeated the prior year's nine models, from the 303-hp SXT to the Widebody-only 807-hp SRT Super Stock, made a deluxe security alarm standard on Scat Pack and SRT models, and that Dodge claimed 10.5 seconds at 131 mph for the Super Stock on its 315/40R18 Nitto drag radials.¹

In November 2021 Dodge announced Jailbreak, a $995 option for the 2022 Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody, per this record's own overview: it removed ordering restrictions across more than twenty personalization categories and, with a revised calibration, raised output to 807 hp, with no production limit stated. This record's own overview also states that no 2022 model-year production figure was found, with FCA's reported 55,060 calendar-year 2022 US Challenger sales reused as the best available substitute; its own production notes add that dealer-arranged third-party convertible conversions are not factory Challengers and are not counted in this record.^2,3

This record's own prices section carries two figures read from a Car and Driver snippet rather than the full page, a $32,140 SXT base price and a $54,435 top-of-non-SRT-range figure, with this record's own note flagging that a car-shopping aggregator gives a different SXT RWD figure, $30,825, for the same model year, unresolved in this record. Five engines are documented: the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 at 303 hp, the 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 at up to 375 hp, the 6.4-liter (392) HEMI V-8 at 485 hp and 475 lb-ft, the supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V-8 at 717 hp on the standard Hellcat, and the supercharged high-output 6.2-liter HEMI at 797 hp on the Redeye or 807 hp under the Super Stock and Redeye Widebody Jailbreak calibrations.^4,1

Three transmissions are documented: the Tremec six-speed manual on the R/T, R/T Scat Pack and SRT Hellcat, the TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic standard on the SXT and GT, and the TorqueFlite 8HP90 standard on the Redeye and Super Stock. This record documents an extensive options list: the Jailbreak package itself, a new Carbon & Suede Package with a carbon-fiber instrument panel and Dinamica suede headliner, and new HEMI Orange and SRT Black appearance packages ordered from the fourth quarter of 2021, alongside the same Widebody, 1320, T/A and Shaker packages carried across the range.^5,6

Thirteen exterior colors are documented, from Frostbite through White Knuckle, alongside five interior colors and four seat-material descriptions spanning Houndstooth cloth up to Laguna leather with an Alcantara option; this record's own specifications section is empty for the year, a documented gap rather than an assumption that no dimensional data was ever published. Its performance section carries a single manufacturer claim, the 10.5-second Super Stock quarter mile already noted above, and its identification and conflicts sections are both empty for the year.¹

This record's own unpublished leads section carries two enthusiast-compiled figures held back from promotion: 221 R/T Scat Pack 1320s built, the lowest of the four years this record's sources track for that package, sourced to a Mopar Insiders forum thread with no article or factory document located, and 495 SRT Super Stocks built for the US with a full color breakdown, sourced to Stellpower's Patrick Rall, whose own reporting this record's note describes as unofficial figures gathered by an outside individual rather than a factory or registry source.¹