2007 Dodge Charger: The First SRT8 Super Bee Since 1971

This record's own overview states that the 2007 range ran from SE and SXT through R/T, Road/Track and Daytona R/T to the SRT8, that all-wheel drive was available, and that a 2.7-liter V-6 rated 190 horsepower joined the 3.5-liter V-6 rated 250 horsepower below the HEMI R/T and the 425-horsepower SRT8. It adds that the SRT8 Super Bee revived a 1968 Coronet name, arriving in Detonator Yellow with a flat-black hood and deck lid and Super Bee graphics for fall 2006, followed later by a Plum Crazy run, and that Chrysler reported 119,289 US Charger sales for calendar 2007 across all trims combined.^1,2,3

This record's own key facts restate the Dodge retrospective's run figures, 1,000 Detonator Yellow and 300 Plum Crazy Super Bees, and 1,650 Sublime and 1,520 Plum Crazy R/T Daytonas, all four stated by the source without an accounting basis. Its production rows independently corroborate every one of these four figures against a separate 2015 factory paint-production table that gives global built counts by paint code and model, with the record's own notes stating that the built rows agree exactly with the 2014 retrospective's run sizes for all four special editions.^1,4

This record's own production rows also carry 6,519 Chargers built globally in TorRed across all 2007 models, a paint-only figure not scoped to any special edition, and a total row that reuses the 119,289-unit calendar-year US sales figure as the best available substitute, since the record's own notes state that no 2007 model-year production total was ever published by Chrysler. The same notes add that special-edition figures come from a retrospective rather than a production ledger and are kept as separate run sizes rather than summed together.^4,3

This record's own engines section documents the 2.7-liter V-6 at 190 horsepower for the SE, the 3.5-liter V-6 at 250 horsepower for the SXT, the 5.7-liter HEMI at 340 horsepower standard on R/T rising to 350 with the Road/Track Performance Group or Daytona R/T package, and the 6.1-liter SRT HEMI at 425 horsepower and 420 lb-ft for the SRT8 and SRT8 Super Bee. Its transmissions section documents a four-speed automatic standard with the 2.7-liter engine and a five-speed automatic with AutoStick standard on the SRT8.^5,6

This record's own prices section documents R/T at $30,640 MSRP against a $28,247 dealer invoice, R/T AWD at $32,740 against $30,137, and SRT8 at $36,045 against $33,546, all four figures drawn from the same buyer's-guide database. Its options section documents more than a dozen named packages from feature-availability sheets, including the Road/Track Performance Group's 350-horsepower HEMI and 20-inch chrome-clad wheels, the Daytona R/T Package's high-impact paint and serialized instrument-panel badge, and three separate SRT packages covering audio, navigation and the standard SRT Track Experience day at Skip Barber Racing School.^7,5,6

This record's own performance section documents two manufacturer claims for the SRT8: a sub-14-second quarter-mile and 0.89g of skidpad lateral acceleration, both dated to the same August 2006 release and both explicitly labeled manufacturer claims rather than independently measured results. This record's own paint section lists all four special-edition colors alongside eight further catalogue and press-release colors, and its identification and conflicts sections are both empty for 2007, a gap it carries without substitution even though its production notes document the plant-by-plant sourcing of the car's engines and transmissions in detail.⁸