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Ashton Munoz, Dodge Charger Brand/Product Manager, and Mike Velthoven, Vehicle Synthesis Manager - Dodge Charger, discuss the standard all-wheel-drive features and capability of the all-new Dodge Charger lineup.

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00:00We at Dodge Engineering make the cars great for the drag strip and for the

00:09racetrack. We also want to bring that high level of expectation to customers

00:13that drive in all weather conditions. So we're up here in Michigan's Upper

00:17Peninsula at the Keweenaw Research Center making sure that the new Dodge

00:23Charger performs great in snowy conditions.

00:28With all-wheel drive now standard on the Dodge Charger, it's really an evolution

00:32for us in the next step of performance. It solidifies that performance and

00:36capability of the car, plus you can go rear-wheel drive and still have all the

00:40muscle car fun with it when you want to.

00:44We previously topped out at around 300 horsepower on the outgoing cars with

00:49all-wheel drive. We're now just starting at 420 horse on the six-pack SO. We're

00:55climbing all the way up to 670 horsepower, all with standard all-wheel drive now. So

01:00it's really the next evolution. And this really gives the new Dodge Charger

01:03customer the ability to have the world's only all-wheel drive muscle car.

01:11On every single Dodge Charger now coming up, we'll have wet and snow mode. The

01:15engineers did a great job of basically modulating track control, electronic

01:20stability control, and the ratio from front to rear power to maximize basically the

01:25car's performance and capability in all-weather driving conditions.

01:32So on the new Charger Scat Pack, it comes with drift and donut mode. We were out here in

01:36Houghton, Michigan having fun and still being safe while testing all the capabilities in the new car,

01:43including the drift and donut mode. One of the great technologies we put in both the

01:49six-pack and the Daytona is a mechanical limited slip differential. This technology,

01:56the Dodge team provides customers to make the vehicles perform great in winter conditions.

02:03Muscle cars and rear-wheel drive high horsepower cars are huge in the warm states and in a huge market

02:09there. This opens up a whole new opportunity for us and our customers who just want that muscle car,

02:15but maybe couldn't get something if they didn't have all-wheel drive, just kept a car in the garage.

02:19This really gives the customers an opportunity to have a muscle car as a daily driver.

Winter Ready - All-New, AWD Dodge Charger

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