2013 Dodge Charger: The Daytona Name Returns, 2,500 Cars Only

This record's own overview states that Dodge announced the 2013 Charger Daytona at the Los Angeles show in November 2012, saying only 2,500 would be offered in the United States, each with a serialized DAYTONA plaque, in Daytona Blue, Bright White, Billet Silver or Pitch Black with satin-black stripes and roof, a 3.06 axle and the 370-horsepower HEMI, priced at $32,990 for the R/T Daytona and $36,495 for the R/T Road and Track Daytona. It adds that Dodge's heritage release also lists the return of Super Bee models with more colors, a new AWD Sport, and a 392 Appearance Package for the SRT8, with Chrysler reporting 98,336 US Charger sales for calendar 2013.^1,2,3

This record's own conflicts section documents a genuine internal price-transcription dispute: this record's own earlier option rows gave the Daytona package at $2,500 on R/T and $2,995 on R/T Road and Track, while the release's own summary bullets state the opposite pairing, $2,500 on R/T Road & Track and $2,995 on R/T, a pairing the record notes is arithmetically consistent with the R/T's own $29,995 base price plus $2,995 equaling the stated $32,990 R/T Daytona price. The record's own treatment favors the release wording and flags the earlier rows for owner review rather than silently correcting them.¹

This record's own production rows carry the 2,500-unit Daytona figure as an announced limit rather than a built count, alongside a 1,229-unit built figure for Daytona Blue R/T Daytonas specifically, with a note explaining that Bright White, Billet Silver and Pitch Black Daytonas have no corresponding rows in the factory paint table, so no full Daytona total can be formed from this record's own sources. Separate rows carry 152 SRT8 and Super Bee cars in Plum Crazy, 48 in HEMI Orange, 728 Copperhead SXT and R/T cars, and 667 TorRed cars across all models.⁴

This record's own production notes add that Dodge said in December 2012 the Blacktop package had accounted for up to 25 percent of Charger SXT sales, with no unit count given, and that 2013 Charger AWD Sport cars were to be built at Brampton from December 2012 through February 2013. A total row reuses the 98,336-unit calendar-year sales figure as the best available substitute, since no 2013 model-year production total was ever published.³

This record's own prices section documents thirteen separate price points, from $25,795 for the base SE up to $44,995 for the SRT8 including destination, alongside four distinct AWD Sport starting prices depending on the trim it was based on. Its engines section documents the 5.7-liter HEMI at 370 horsepower for R/T and Daytona, and the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 at 292 horsepower standard, rising to 300 horsepower with the Rallye Appearance Group or Blacktop Package's cold-air induction and sport exhaust.^5,6,7

This record's own options section documents the 392 Appearance Package's gloss-black badges and 20-inch Black Vapor Chrome wheels, a Daytona-specific package documented alongside the price-conflict already noted, and both an SXT-based and R/T-based Blacktop package with distinct color palettes and equipment lists. Its identification section documents the Daytona's serialized instrument-panel plaque, and this record's own transmissions section is empty for 2013, a gap it carries without substitution even though its engines section documents two separate powertrains in detail.^2,8,9,1