The vehicle offers a pair of hand-painted, custom show car trim options. Only 80 models will be available in Pitch Black/Contusion Blue, with another 80 in Pitch Black/Billet Silver, in a nod to 80 years of the Mopar brand.
The Mopar ’17 Dodge Challenger also includes Mopar performance parts, accessories, an exclusive owner’s kit and a serialised badge.
The commemorative Challenger begins turning heads through its exterior and a pair of two-tone custom paint options achieved with an assist from the Mopar Custom Shop. Contusion Blue and Billet Silver hues are pulled from the Dodge brand’s colour palette, with the upper portion hand-painted in Pitch Black at the Mopar Custom Shop to achieve the striking two-tone appearance.
The Contusion Blue colour conveys a tone-on-tone look, providing a subtle, hiding-in-plain-sight feel at night and a brilliant appearance in daylight. Billet Silver offers a more high-impact, high-contrast exterior colour. The inherent bodylines of the Challenger are used to transition from Pitch Black to Contusion Blue or Billet Silver, providing a seamless segue point.
A special Mopar “392” logo, also hand-painted on at the Mopar Custom Shop, gives an additional custom touch.
The upper exterior is unified with Pitch Black accents. The standard satin black of Mopar’s Shaker Hood package and Shaker Hood scoop surround is painted Pitch Black. The rear deck-lid spoiler also receives the Pitch Black treatment, and the Mopar Design badge on the spoiler is turned black-on-black.
The set of 20 x 9-inch aluminum wheels are embellished with semi-gloss accents and centre caps feature the Dodge logo. Standard chrome exhaust tips are replaced with Challenger SRT Hellcat black exhaust tips.
The 6-speed manual transmission also makes a powerful performance statement that enhances the base Challenger R/T 392. The 6.4-litre, 392 Hemi engine pumps out 485 horsepower and 644Nm of torque, and is augmented by the Mopar Shaker Hood package, which provides performance gains with a hint of vintage styling. The scoop is embellished with Shaker badging.
A Mopar cold air intake also delivers a performance boost and is aided by an air catcher duct system via the headlamp. The upgrade, inspired by the Challenger SRT Hellcat, feeds additional cold air into the vehicle. Mopar Shaker strut tower braces and caps are silver powder-coated and increase rigidity and handling of the car. Four-piston Brembo brakes provide stopping power.
Heading inside, performance seats are the star, customised with Tungsten Mopar logos embroidered on the seatbacks. Tungsten stitching matching the Mopar logo borders the seats and continues throughout the vehicle, touching the door panels and additional interior areas.
Befitting its limited-edition origins, the Mopar ’17 Challenger is delivered with exclusive content that highlights the vehicle’s prestige and collectability. A special serialised Mopar ’17 80th anniversary badge is included under the hood, announcing 1-80 of the Contusion Blue version and 1-80 of the Billet Silver option.
Each customer will receive a special Mopar ’17 Owner’s Kit, packaged in a custom Mopar box that includes a Mopar welcome letter, a “birth certificate” with vehicle specifications, date of manufacture and proprietary vehicle number, a hand-signed Mopar ’17 rendering from the FCA US LLC Product Design Office, a special Mopar ’17 booklet, a customised acrylic memorabilia showpiece, Mopar valve stem caps and Mopar-branded items, such as a Mopar ’17 keychain and a Mopar 80th anniversary badge
The Mopar ’17 Dodge Challenger joins an exclusive club as the eighth limited-edition, Mopar-modified vehicle delivered straight from the factory. In 2010, the brand produced the first of an ongoing series of limited-edition vehicles, the Mopar ’10 Challenger. Other low-run, factory-produced Mopar rides would follow: the Mopar ’11 Charger, Mopar ’12 300, Mopar ’13 Dart, Mopar ’14 Challenger, Mopar ’15 Charger R/T and Mopar ’16 Ram Rebel.
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