2023 Dodge Challenger: Last Call

This record's own dek describes 2023 as Last Call, the final HEMI Challenger year, with announced special-edition runs, Shakedown at 1,000, Swinger at 1,000, Black Ghost at 300, and the fuel-dependent Demon 170 capped at 3,000 US and 300 Canadian cars. This record's own overview states that Dodge said the HEMI-powered Challenger and Charger would end at the close of 2023, every 2023 car carried a "Last Call" underhood plaque, and dealers were told to submit all 2023 orders by the end of July 2023, with the nine-model range running from the 303-hp SXT to the 807-hp SRT Super Stock and Jailbreak personalization now extended to the SRT Hellcat.^1,2

Seven Last Call special editions covered both nameplates, per this record's own overview: for the Challenger, Dodge announced 1,000 Shakedowns split 500 R/T Scat Pack in Destroyer Grey and 500 Scat Pack Widebody in Pitch Black, 1,000 Scat Pack Swinger Widebodies, and 300 Black Ghosts on the Hellcat Redeye Widebody Jailbreak, later reporting that all 300 Black Ghosts were built and attributing that figure to Dodge without an inspected VIN ledger. The seventh model, the SRT Demon 170, was revealed March 20, 2023 at $96,666 before destination, its output depending on fuel: 1,025 hp and 945 lb-ft on E85, 900 hp and 810 lb-ft on E10, with an NHRA-certified 8.91-second quarter mile at 151.17 mph carried in this record's own performance section.^3,4,5

The Demon 170 was capped at no more than 3,300 cars, 3,000 US and 300 Canadian, with orders open from March 27 to May 15, 2023; this record's own production section documents a built total of exactly 3,300 from a single MoparInsiders article citing unnamed inside sources, which notes that 26 cars once counted were never built and matches the announced cap without being confirmed in a Stellantis document. That total splits into 2,975 US non-Jailbreak cars, 25 US Jailbreak cars all in Pitch Black, and 300 Canadian cars, with the US non-Jailbreak figure further broken across fourteen colors and option-install counts including 1,852 black leather/Alcantara seats and only 827 of 2,474 originally ordered carbon-fiber wheels delivered, a shortfall this record's own note attributes to a supplier shortage.⁶

This record's own overview states that no 2023 model-year production figure was found, with US Challenger sales at 44,960 in calendar 2023 reused as the best available substitute, still falling as dealers sold out the last cars in 2024 (27,056) and 2025 (1,800), both figures carried as their own rows in this record's production section. Six engines are documented, from the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 at 303 hp through the 6.4-liter (392) HEMI at 485 hp to the Demon 170's dual E85/E10 ratings, alongside three transmissions, the Tremec six-speed manual and two TorqueFlite eight-speed automatics, the 8HP70 and the heavy-duty 8HP90 used on the Redeye, Super Stock and Demon 170.^7,8,9,10

This record documents an extensive options and pricing structure spanning the SXT at $30,545 up to the Black Ghost at $99,315 and the Demon 170 at $96,666, alongside the Mopar '23 Special Edition Package at $3,995 and the same Widebody, 1320, T/A and Shaker packages carried across the range. Fourteen exterior colors and thirteen interior descriptions are documented, while this record's own specifications section carries only the Black Ghost's 3.09 final drive.^11,12

This record's own identification section documents the Last Call underhood plaque common to every 2023 car, and its conflicts section is empty. Its unpublished leads section carries two enthusiast-sourced figures for the SRT Super Stock explicitly held back from promotion: 246 cars built, 29 of them in Sublime, drawn from a MoparInsiders item quoting a Barrett-Jackson auction description with no factory source named, and the same 246-car total with a full color breakdown from Stellpower's Patrick Rall, whose figures this record's own note again describes as unofficial numbers gathered by an outside individual rather than a factory or registry source.¹