Dodge Challenger Concept

Dodge Challenger Concept front angle view

Dodge Challenger Concept rear detail view

Dodge Challenger Concept cokpit dashboard view

Dodge Challenger Concept front detail view

Dodge Challenger Concept interior view

Dodge Challenger Concept rear angle view

When creating the new Dodge Challenger concept car the designers at Chrysler Group’s West Coast Pacifica Studio knew who they had to draw a rich heritage. They also knew they had the duty to make it right.

The design of the 2006 Dodge Challenger Concept:
Since the key to the image, the right proportions was critical. The Challenger concept sits on a 116-inch wheelbase, six inches longer than the original. But the width of two inches greater, so the concept car a squat, tougher, purposeful persona.
The signature side view accent line is higher on the body, running horizontal through the fender and door and come up just before the rear wheel.
Located in the section of the upper and lower surfaces and body are along this line, just a whisper of the original car coved surface cut.
The five-spoke chrome wheels, 20 inch front and 21 inches rear, like the side ornaments, with the car the powerful muscular stance to fight a boxer in the world eagerly. Wheel openings are close to the tire, pulled back the edges of the back. To emphasize the iconic muscularity, the designers added plan view “hip” to the rear quarter.
wanted to keep one of the main features of the original car the designers, was the exceptionally wide look of both the front and back ends. To achieve this, the designers of both the front and rear track increased to 64 and 65 inches wider than the LX, wider even than model year 1970. To realize the long horizontal hood the designers considered essential, the front overhang was also increased.
Bumpers are clean (no guards), body-color and flush with the body. “This is something we would have liked to do on the original Challenger,” said Jeff Hall God, a young designer in the Dodge Exterior Studio, was created when the first Challenger, “but the technology just was not there. With the Challenger Concept are, however, the Pacifica Studio designers the ability to recognize what we wanted in our perfect world. ”
The hood reprises the original Challenger “performance hood” and its twin diagonal scoops, now with functional throttle control supply. Designed to showcase the modern techniques in the production of the car that painted racing stripes are actually the exposed carbon fiber of the hood seems to be used.
The Challenger concept is a true four passenger aircraft car. Compared with the original, the greenhouse is longer, the windshield and back lite faster and smaller windows. All glass in the body is positioned without moldings, another touch the original designers could only wish. The car is a genuine two-door hardtop – no B-pillar – with the belt line starting confident in the quarter window just before the wide C-pillar.
Exterior details one might expect, like a racing-type CAP, gas, hood tie-down pins, back-lite and bold striping louvered part of the body, not the “Cut” as the designer range would feel bits that affect the purity of the monochromatic body form. But to be hidden under the rear bumper reassuring the “must have” twin-rectangle pipes of the dual exhaust system.

The interior:
In contrast to the bright orange Pearl exterior, the interior is a no-nonsense “Let’s-get-in-and-go” black relieved by satin silver accents and narrow orange band on the back. “Although the model year was 1970 for inspiration, as we wanted to catch the memory of the car, said, but in more contemporary surfaces, materials and textures,” said Alan Barrington, principal interior designer. As with the original car, the instrumental panel pad is high, intersected on the driver’s side by a trapeze shaped cluster of three circular in-line analog gauge openings.
“We have the in-your-face gauge holes are designed to appear as you look down into the cylinder head off,” says Barrington. These are outboard by a larger circular “gauge flanked,” which is actually a computer, so the driver to the top overall speed, quarter mile time and speed, and the maximum speed for each gear.
With its thick, easy-grip rim, circular hub and pierced silver spokes, leather-covered steering wheel is reminiscent of the original vehicle, “Tuff” wheel, steering column as the “ribs”. The bottom of the panel tipped, middle surface of the driver with a proper “pistol grip” shifter mounted master of the form to the right place quick, crisp shifts possible with the six-speed manual “tranny.”
Since the original Challenger was the first car painted door panels (now common), the doors received special attention.
“We think the door a billet aluminum with black rubber was covered,” says Barrington. “Then we cut to make on a silver trapezoidal cove for the armrest.”
Although the flat-section bucket seats of the original Challenger does not offer much support for aggressive driving, the front seats in the Challenger concept car boast found significant improvement as in the famous series of Dodge SRT vehicles. The trim covers’ horizontal pleats or “fales” provide just a hint of that “70s” look.
Covered designed, revised and redesigned, the Challenger concept car offers iconic a HEMI-powered performance coupe from a classic American ‘muscle car derived.

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