As the American carmaker Dodge slowly lowers the curtain on its current Charger and Challenger models over the next few years in favor of EV sports cars, the company is sacrificing some of the products most famous for producing big, Dad-pleasing "vroom-vroom" sounds.
A 21st century kindergartener knows what a phone, clock, and car sound like. The tech world has made machines quieter. This may be a safety problem. To signal to pedestrians that a multi-ton object is moving towards them, car manufacturers have to make sounds. BMW created sonic experiences for its concept cars that are supposed to evoke themes like relaxation and sustainable living.
That isn't the direction Dodge is going in with the concept car in the video above. The machine has a patented sound chamber. The roar of one of Dodge's greenhouse gas-spewing Hemi engines can be heard coming from this chamber, located where the exhaust pipe used to be.
123 decibels of output is promised by Kuniskis. According to the CDC, that is louder than a chainsaw. Enough to awaken your neighbors.
A car that will be a retail product in 2024 is the basis of the Charger Daytona SRT concept. It's not yet known if that car will create the sonic experience of the concept version, or if it will include the other unnecessary, but equally nostalgic, feature.
"Our power throws your shoulders into the seat back at shift points" is the key to the Dodge experience, according to Kuniskis. The presentation states that the system is called the eRUPT system.
These sounds and sensations are pure Dodge, and they are not relevant to actual locomotion in the EV era.
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