2016 Dodge Charger: More Than Double the Hellcats, Allocated in Two Cycles

This record's own overview states that Dodge's 2016 Charger and Charger SRT engineering sheet covers the range from V-6 to SRT Hellcat, and that FCA opened 2016 Hellcat orders in August 2015, started production in September, and said it would more than double Hellcat production compared with 2015, with allocation based on past sales and Hellcat days-on-lot across two cycles in August 2015 and February 2016. It adds that no 2016 model-year production figure was found and that FCA reported 95,437 US Charger sales for calendar 2016.^1,2,3

This record's own key facts restate that Hellcat production more than doubled for 2016 per FCA, with no count given, and the 95,437-unit calendar-2016 sales figure. Its own unpublished leads section separately flags a forum claim of 4,025 Hellcats built for the 2016 model year, a claim the record notes has no FCA source and comes only from an owner-forum compilation repeated by a secondary outlet.^2,3

This record's own production rows carry three partial-year built figures through February 29, 2016: 4,004 units in B5 Blue, 2,877 in TorRed, and 2,877 in Plum Crazy, with a note stating plainly that the B5 Blue and TorRed figures repeat the exact values already reported for the 2015 model year in a different table, a repetition the record flags rather than silently accepting. The same note adds that Plum Crazy ordering itself ran through January 2016, explaining why a partial-year figure exists for a color this record's own paint section otherwise lists without a production count.⁴

This record's own prices section documents five trims from R/T RWD at $33,895 MSRP up to SRT Hellcat RWD at $65,945, each paired with its own dealer-invoice figure from the same buyer's-guide database. Its engines section documents the supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat V-8 at 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft, the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 at 292 horsepower standard rising to 300 with the Rallye Group, the 5.7-liter HEMI at 370 horsepower, and the 6.4-liter HEMI at 485 horsepower and 475 lb-ft.^5,1

This record's own options section documents a $995 dual full-length carbon-pattern body stripe option exclusive to the Hellcat, a Blacktop Appearance Group with 20x8 Gloss Black wheels, and a Rallye Group pairing the 300-horsepower V-6 tune with cold-air induction, performance exhaust and Sport Mode II. Its paint section documents Go Mango's spring 2016 return, first offered on SRT 392 and Hellcat before expanding to the full Charger line, with Dodge stating that nearly half of all SRT and Hellcat orders were for Go Mango after its reintroduction.^6,7,8

This record's own identification section documents VIN model codes distinguishing DXL for SRT Hellcat from DXG for Scat Pack and DXE for SRT across the 2016 lineup, alongside engine code 9 for the 6.2-liter supercharged unit and model-year code G. This record's own conflicts and performance sections are both empty for 2016, a gap it carries without substitution even though its own production notes document a genuine data-repetition concern between the 2015 and 2016 paint tables that a reader might otherwise mistake for two independent counts rather than the same underlying figure appearing twice.⁹