2009 Dodge Charger: The Last Daytona R/T and the Last Super Bee of the First Modern Body

This record's own overview states that the 2009 SRT8 kept the 425-horsepower 6.1 HEMI and five-speed AutoStick, with Deep Water Blue added to the palette, and that the SRT8 Super Bee returned in HEMI Orange with a serialized dash plaque and wheels with black-anodized pockets. It adds that Dodge's 2014 heritage release gives the 2009 runs as 475 Daytona R/Ts in Stone White and 425 SRT8 Super Bees in HEMI Orange, calling 2009 the last year of both editions, and that Chrysler reported 60,651 US Charger sales for calendar 2009.^1,2,3

This record's own production rows corroborate the 425-unit Super Bee figure against a separate 2015 factory paint-production table that gives global built counts by paint code, with a note stating the built figure agrees with the 2014 retrospective's run size. For the 475-unit Stone White Daytona R/T, however, the record's own notes state plainly that the factory paint table lists no 2009 Stone White Daytona R/T row at all, so that figure rests on the 2014 heritage release alone, unlike the Super Bee count sitting beside it.^4,2

This record's own production rows also carry 4,516 Chargers built globally in TorRed across all 2009 models, and a total row that reuses the 60,651-unit calendar-year US sales figure as the best available substitute, since no 2009 model-year production total was ever published. The same notes state that 2009 Charger production started in August 2008 and 2009 Charger SRT8 production in July 2008, both at Brampton Assembly.^4,3

This record's own engines section documents the 6.1-liter SRT HEMI at 425 horsepower and 420 lb-ft for the SRT8 and Super Bee, the 2.7-liter DOHC V-6 at 178 horsepower for the SE, the 3.5-liter High Output V-6 at 250 horsepower for the SXT, and a new-generation 5.7-liter HEMI with MDS and VVT rated 368 horsepower and 395 lb-ft for the R/T, the engine's own name in this record explicitly marked "new generation" to distinguish it from the source's more general 5.7-liter HEMI label used elsewhere. Its transmissions section documents the W5A580 five-speed automatic standard on the SRT8 and a four-speed automatic with variable line pressure standard on SE and SXT RWD.^5,6

This record's own prices section documents R/T at $32,160 MSRP against a $29,901 dealer invoice, R/T AWD at $34,260 against $31,812, and SRT8 at $38,970 against $36,098. Its options section documents the Super Bee and Daytona R/T packages each carrying their own installs figure, 425 and 475 respectively, matching the production rows exactly, alongside a Road/Track Performance Package, three SRT feature packages, and a fall-2009 Super Bee Edition on the SRT8's own feature-availability sheet with silver Brembo calipers and optional uconnect tunes.^7,6

This record's own performance section documents a single manufacturer claim, a sub-14-second quarter-mile for the SRT8, dated to the same August 2008 release as the engine and Super Bee paragraphs. Its identification section notes the serialized dash plaque carried by 2009 SRT8 Super Bees, and its conflicts and unpublished leads sections are both empty for 2009, a gap the record carries without substitution even though it documents a genuine sourcing asymmetry between its two headline special editions.¹