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"People give us props for being the cool kids back in the day, but so was everyone else. Even the Peugeot was cool, and they're terrible! We went from being the heroes and the villains, to being driven by every a** in every teen movie."

—HONEST Dodge Commercial (Part 2)

Domestic, not Domesticated. Dodge is a proud American car brand, known for their big, mighty and very loud cars loaded with lots of power, muscle and boldness.

In fiction, Dodge has been used very ubiquitously in Hollywood and its many American works, ranging from the American Law Enforcement in their Dodge Monaco and Charger sedans, to the daring and the dangerous who loves breaking rules with a classic Dodge Charger, Challenger or even Viper, or something just practical like the Ram... unless one character makes it a venerable screaming monster.

Proud to be "never neutral", its muscle-made bravado never diminishes.

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Dodge Challenger

Johnny: This one's not half-bad.
Daniel: It's a 2009 Challenger, 5.8-liter.
Johnny: 5.7.

—Cobra Kai

The Dodge Challenger is the name of the brand's muscle car, and widely considered to be one of the Power Trio amongst American pony cars alongside the Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Camaro. The "challenger" name was derived from the 1959 Dodge Silver Challenger, a trim of the two-door Dodge Coronet.

The first-generation Challenger was introduced in the autumn of 1969 as a 1970 model year, which utilizes one of the two Chrysler E-body cars, with the other half being the smaller Plymouth Barracuda. Its first year has two different series; the Challenger and the Challenger R/T (Road/Track), which use a Slant-6 inline-6 and an LA/B/Hemi V8 engine respectively. A special edition Challenger T/A (Trans Am) was also available on the same year as a racing homologation car, similar to its rivals Camaro Z28 and Boss 302 Mustang.

While the second-gen in 1978 is essentially a rebadged Mitsubishi Galant Lambada, the Challenger stopped production for a while in 1983.

In 2006, Dodge unveils the Challenger Concept as a preview for its third-generation, with designs adapted from the aforementioned 1970 Challenger R/T. On February 6, 2008, the Challenger is finally in its full-fledged production-ready model, with its high-performance Challenger SRT8 making waves in the same year, utilizing a HEMI OHV V8 engine. In 2015, Dodge unveiled a high performance variant of the Challenger called the Challenger SRT Hellcat, equipped with a supercharged 6.2 L Hemi V8 at 707 horsepower, while in 2017 sees an even more extreme version, now called the Challenger SRT Demon rated with a whopping 808 hp. It acceleration is quite fast as it can go 0-60 in less than 3.6 seconds. Because of the lack of an NHRA certified roll cage, which is required if the quarter-mile time is under 10 seconds, the NHRA banned the SRT Demon from competition.

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Film — Animation

• Lupin III and Daisuke Jigen take command of the blue Dodge Challenger T/A in Lupin III's Fujiko Mine's Lie.

Film — Live Action

• Bobby and Stig from 2 Guns takes their classic 1970 Challenger in action.
• Baby of Baby Driver loves anything hot rod red for his car. Other than his fabled Subaru WRX, he is also the Getaway Driver behind the almighty and conveniently timed Dodge Challenger Hellcat.
• Bad Moms shows what bad moms really show. There is Carla Dunkler, a rebellious and carefree mom who embraces her wild side, and to perfectly match her personality is to align her with a classic muscle car: a 1970 Challenger, which is a symbol of freedom and power that reflects Carla's desire.
• The father of Jennifer Lopez's character in The Boy Next Door has a purple Dodge Challenger as his Mid Life Crisis Car.
• The recurring Chronically Crashed Car of Kevin Levin was portrayed as a 2009 Dodge Challenger in Ben 10: Alien Swarm.
• Fans of Vanishing Point would be surprised when the white 1970 Dodge Challenger shows up in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof. ...which Zoe and her friends go well out of their way just to get a chance to drive, winds up in pretty bad shape when all is said and done.
• Other than the Charger, the Challenger is another noteworthy American muscle car of The Fast and the Furious;
  • It was first seen in the audition race hosted auction race in 2 Fast 2 Furious, seen in the hands of Darden, then later, Roman Pearce.
  • The ending of Fast Five gets into an Unknown Rematch Conclusion, where Dominic Toretto in a black 2009 SRT-8 challenge Brian in his GT-R to a race. The film cuts to the end credits as Dom accepts Brian's challenge, but you get to see the outcome in the very beginning of the next film.
  • A green off-road built Challenger SRT is Letty's car in Furious 7 used for the Caucasus Mountains mission.
  • Dom, Letty and Roman in The Fate of the Furious use silver Dodge Challenger SRT Demons while recovering an EMP device in Berlin.
• Jill, the red Challenger R/T in Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) met its fate, being wrecked and crushed at the junkyard. Pace gets notably choked up about that.
• This futuristic looking classic Mopar shows up as the unmarked police car of In Time.
• The 2021 Made-for-TV Movie of Nash Bridges replaces the signature Plymouth Barracuda for a modern yellow Challenger cabriolet.
• In Nightcrawler (has nothing to do with the X-Men character), one of the few things we see Lou buy with his newfound income is a very flashy red Challenger, which includes a lot of the gear he needs to locate news sites and helps him get there faster. Rick, however, notes that it's not exactly inconspicuous.
• Casey Jones brings out his Improbably Cool Car in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. Seriously. How the hell can he afford a Dodge Challenger Hellcat on an NYPD officer's salary!?
• Ditch's 1970 Dodge Challenger also fits to be a Cool Car in Terminal Velocity (1994)
• The Alpine White 1970 Dodge Challenger, hands down is the signature Cool Car of Kowalski from Vanishing Point. The final scene has it somehow turn into a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro. Justified, this is because Chrysler required the cars returned after filming.

Live-Action TV

• In Breaking Bad, Walter buys his son a badass 2009 Dodge Challenger, much to the latter's glee. In "Problem Dog", it gets the Pinto treatment when his car goes up in a huge fireball from a gas tank fire.
  • Season 5 has Walter decide to buy his son once more another Dodge Challenger. This time, it's a 2012 SRT-8, where Walt, Jr. highlights the specs when he was talking with Hank.
    Walt Jr.: V-8, 470 horses, 20-inch rims, satellite radio, Bluetooth. Zero to 60 in 4.7 seconds.
• Daniel LaRusso in Cobra Kai gives Johnny Lawrence a 2009 Dodge Challenger as a Casual Car Giveaway for his destroyed Pontiac Firebird from the hands of Louie and his friends. Season 2 transforms it into a full-on Pimped-Out Car with the matte black paint job, yellow stripes, and a vintage Pioneer tape deck, to the point fans call it the "Cobra Kai Challenger".
• Alex Tully's Dodge Challenger from short-lived Drive (2007) counts.
• The orange/black striped Dodge Challenger can be seen in the episode "The Book of Molly" in Mike & Molly.
• The Mod Squad has plenty of Challengers throughout its long run.
• Mannix has the titular protagonist jumping to a new vehicle Once a Season. By Season 7, he's seen in a 1974 Dodge Challenger 360 Coupe.
• In season 6 of NCIS, Gibbs is required to return to his hometown to solve a case. Whilst there the car he drove up in (an NCIS company car) is fire-bombed to prevent his investigation. Then his father reveals he fixed up the old '70s Challenger he left behind when he joined the Marines. Needless to say, awesomeness ensues.

Music

• "Black Sun" by Death Cab for Cutie shows a bleeding man getting ran over by a driver in a black 1970 Dodge Challenger. Turns out it was for a film shooting, and the man is perfectly fine.
• John Schneider parodies the famous scenes of Smokey and the Bandit in his music video "Stand On It!". Instead of a Pontiac Firebird, it's a custom black Dodge Challenger T-top.
• Matthew Sweet takes his purple Challenger for a joyride on the desert roads before it evolved into a Hot Pursuit in "The Ugly Truth".

Video Games

• The first car you unlock in Blur is the Challenger SRT8 (alongside the Audi TTS). Just simply reach Fan Status 2. Oh, and the Challenger also serves as one of the 10 Legendary vehicles.
• If there is a classic cult icon, then you must be looking at the Hero's Classic Car of John Tanner and Tobias Jones of Driver: San Francisco: the signature yellow and black striped Dodge Challenger R/T is cool enough, you can get to drive it for free by completing the game's story.
• Both the Ventura and the Afterburner in FlatOut are all based off the classic Challenger.
• There's a huge slew of Challengers throughout the Forza series, ranging from the classic Challenger R/T, to the modern SRT8/SRT8 392, and the almighty SRT Hellcat and Demon. Oh, and let's not forget there's lots of Palette Swap variants, including the ones from Fast & Furious.
• Challengers are prominent in Gran Turismo; you have the '70 Challenger R/T (which has a race modified version in 5), a 2008 SRT8 (which also has a race modified version in 5), and the December 2023 update of 7 gives you the almighty SRT Demon.
• The Gauntlet in Grand Theft Auto V is based on the 2008 Challenger, while the Classic and Hellfire Gauntlets in Grand Theft Auto Online are based on the '70 Challenger R/T and 2018 Challenger SRT Demon respectively.
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles has both the 1970 Challenger R/T and the Challenger Concept, with the latter also available in its tricked out DUB Edition.
• Whether if it's an R/T or an SRT, the Challenger is no surprise to show up in Need for Speed:
  • Not one but two different Challengers appear in Carbon; a 1971 R/T which you can get via Downloadable Content and the Improbably Cool Car; the Challenger Concept, Which Angie will drive upon joining Stacked Deck after her crew got disbanded. Both return in ProStreet and Undercover, usually as a Version-Exclusive Content car.
  • Speaking of Undercover, Tri-City Bay's Police State Muscle Cruisers are all Challenger Expies. A Cheat Code allows you to drive this muscle buster.
  • Thiago in Nitro drives a modern-day Challenger SRT8 for the Gold Cup. Needless to say, you can't obtain his slick ride.
  • The SRT8 has been the Challenger since Most Wanted (2012) and all its subsequent games. Plus the Snoop Dogg edition in No Limitis.
  • The House Mooks bring black Challengers to take Tyler, Mac or Jess down in Payback
• While not in the base game, the Long Beach Booster Pack of Project Gotham Racing 2 gives you this swanky Challenger R/T Hemi available to join with the other American muscles. Beginning in 4, has the Challenger Concept, which also appeared in both tail ends of the game's intro.
• Resident Evil: brings this classic Mopar in the hands of the surviving protagonists:
  • In Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Ethan Winters hijacks into a white Challenger, while trying to Car Fu Jack Baker inside the garage. It was a beautiful car till Jack rips open the roof, ambushes Ethan by grabbing the steering wheel, and "takes him for a ride".
    Jack: [laughs] [sarcastically] Nice car, Ethan. Where'd you learn to drive?
  • Ditto for Resident Evil 3 (Remake), as it's also the same car that Jill Valentine tries to flee the city and attempt to Car Fu Nemesis at the game's beginning.
• The Game Boy Color version of Test Drive 6 has the Gen. 1 Challenger as exclusive content. It's also featured in Test Drive Unlimited as a Downloadable Content car.

Western Animation

• Transformers: Prime: Cliffjumper's vehicle mode is a 70s Dodge Challenger sporting these, on account that his robot mode also sports horns on his head.

Dodge Charger (B-body)

♫ Someday the mountain might get 'em
but the law never will ♫

"We built a Charger 'idea' car which we displayed at auto shows in 1965 to stimulate market interest in the concept. It was the approved design but we told the press and auto show attendees that it was just an "idea" and that we would build it if they liked it. It was pre-ordained that they would like it."

—Burt Bouwkamp, Chief Engineer for Dodge during The '60s, responsible behind the Dodge Charger.

The '60s were booming in personal luxury and specialty cars. Chrysler, who was lagging behind in the market commissioned Dodge to enter the market with their mid-sized B-body fastback that would compete with the likes of the Ford Mustang and Ford Thunderbird. Based on the Dodge Coronet, the Dodge Charger, a mid-size muscle car made its debut in mid-1966. Differentiating from its rival models comes full-length center console and "all bucket seating" for both front and rear. Despite it, it wasn't intended to compete head-to-head with pony cars.

The Charger was entirely redesigned in 1968, to further distance it from the Dodge Coronet. The new body now featured coke bottle styling, curves around fenders and a "flying buttress" similarly used in the 1966-67 Pontiac GTO. A higher performance was added called the Charger R/T (short for Road/Track), fitted with a 426 cu in HEMI V8 engine, which would become Chrysler's top-of-the-line muscle car.

The third-generation Charger in 1971 merges its Coronet and Charger bodies in one model. The Super Bee also became part of the Dodge Charger lineup alongside variants carried over in its previous generation. Sales declined due to high insurance costs and gasoline prices. The fourth-generation Charger in 1975 see a miracle again in sales, and would later seize production in 1978, with the Dodge Magnum taking place as the Charger's successor.

The Charger name would be later re-introduced in 2005, this time as a full-size 4-door sedan.

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Film — Live Action

• The Charger is used as the base car for the Batmobile in The Batman (2022), used to chase down Penguin in his Maserati Ghibli.
• Blade's Cool Car in the Blade Trilogy is a '68 Charger that appeared in all 3 movies.
• Other than the titular character in a '68 Mustang, the black Dodge Charger R/T were driven by the hitmen in Bullitt.
• Cade Redman, Cannonball's Arch-Enemy in Cannonball drives a Charger.
• The cult classic of Quentin Tarantino, Death Proof Has this uh... death proof car of Kurt Russell's character in the second half... a 1969 Dodge Charger.
• Started off with an Impala at first, then ditched it for what would be the film's best-remembered car: a lime green 1969 Dodge Charger R/T 440 in Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, owned by Larry Rayder and Deke Simmons.
• The Cool Car of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious is none other than the black 1970 Dodge Charger R/T souped-up with a supercharged blower. It's so iconic, even his portrayer Vin Diesel has deep respect and admiration for the car when he kissed it during the trailer debut of Furious 7.
  • It was first seen in the first film (of course), which was kept inside the garage in Dom's home, where he's afraid of using it. This would serve as the Chekhov's Gun (or... Chekhov's Car, mind you) in his long run against Johnny Tran and Lance Nguyen. And wrecks it following a race with Brian O'Connor.
  • This is the car Letty Ortiz was working on in Fast & Furious, Where Dom finished what's left off following her "death".
  • Later returns in Fast Five, this time, Brian driving it where he rams it in front of a prison bus with Dom on board.
  • In Fast & Furious 6, Dom takes command of the Dodge Charger Daytona for the film's climax.
  • Mr. Nobody procures Dom for Furious 7 an off-road spec Charger for his mission to rescue a hacker named Ramsey in Azerbaijan. When he returned to Los Angeles, Dom uses his own Charger for his battle against Deckard Shaw. And it was last seen in the Bittersweet Ending where he bids Brian (in a Supra) farewell.
  • The "Ice" Charger in The Fate of the Furious was used in the climactic scene in Russia, and it's weaponized with a turbine flame.
  • Once again, Dome drives it in F9, used to chase his younger brother Jakob Toretto in Edinburgh.
  • ...and once more in Fast X where he drives it to Rome to stop Dante Reyes.
• Infamous (2020) (no, it's nothing relation to the video game) has this serving as the main getaway car.
• The Hero's Classic Car in Joe Dirt is 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger, driven by the titular character.
• Randy prized "Debora", a 1969 Dodge Charger 400 R/T in The Man from Toronto, in which her takes great pride of. It proves to live up to its reputation, being perfectly suited for getting Teddy to the train station Lori while short on time and on the run.
• In Speedway, you have the King of Rock n' Roll on the King of the Modifieds. Basically... Elvis Presley driving a 1967 Dodge Charger NASCAR for the race around Charlotte Motor Speedway.
• The '71 Charger R/T Six-Pack in Vampire in Brooklyn is perhaps another example, despite is rarely is seen driven.

Live-Action TV

• Robbie Reyes's vehicle in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. when not hellfired up, is a customized 1969 Dodge Charger.
• Michael Westen's signature Cool Car in Burn Notice is a 1973 Dodge Charger, which used to be his Dad's.
• The most desired Cool Car in television would be the orange-painted 1969 Charger stock car dubbed The General Lee in The Dukes of Hazzard. It comes with a a proudly Confederate paint scheme, a horn that plays a bar from "Dixie," and can do an absurd ability to do lots of long jumps, that the Dukes never worry about having chassis damage.
• "The Hit Car" from the episode of the same name of The Greatest American Hero is a highly modified 1968 Dodge Charger.
• In Street Hawk, you have Jessie's friend the Car Chase featuring the 1969 Charger. And said friend is played by... George Clooney!

Music

• "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins follows the story of a group of teenagers driving around in a 1972 Dodge Charger.
• "Say You'll Be There" by the Spice Girls feature the Petty blue Dodge Charger Daytona at the Mojave desert.
• Belgian-Egyptian singer Tamino released his 2022 single "Fascination", where he cruises around desert and canyon roads in his black 1968 Dodge Charger.
• "The General Lee" by Johnny Cash is about the titular The Dukes of Hazzard car, as mentioned above.

Video Games

• The Carson Fastback in Burnout Paradise is a beaten-up classic Dodge Charger. Don't assume its abandoned looks, though.
• Appears in every Forza game, including the Charger Daytona Hemi, introduced since Motorsport 3. It even spawned a Fast & Furious Edition, where Dom's Charger plays full-course.
• Gran Turismo features both the 1970 Charger R/T and also the Charger Super Bee, last seen in 6. The classic didn't return until the 1.40 update adds this in 7.
• The post-apocalypsized Muscle Car in Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a 1969 Dodge Charger stripped down, with modified engine. Don't be fooled by its looks since it can take a lot of serious beating, and shrug off anything you do it.
• Jimmy Gibbs Jr., a famous stock car racer in Left 4 Dead 2 was the Badass Driver behind the Dodge Charger Daytona before becoming infected. The Survivors steal his stock car to escape the mall at the end of Dead Center.
• The Dukes in Grand Theft Auto IV onward is based on the B-Body Charger, if its name didn't give it away.
• It only made its one-shot in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition as a C-Class Muscle Car. Roy during your first encounter drives a green modified Charger with a blower, a-la Dominic Toretto.
• If a muscle car can be capable off-road, you have the Patriot Surger from MotorStorm, heavily based on the second-gen Charger. Dice in Apocalypse drives his personalized Surger, which he calls it The Snake Eyes.
• Need for Speed brings General Lee to the street racing world:
  • Technically, the first game where it appeared is in the PSP-exclusive Underground Rivals, driven by Tank, one of the four bosses.
  • It officially debuted in a mainline game in Carbon as a Tier 2 Muscle car, driven by 21st Street Crew leader Angie and her subordinate Samson.
  • As seen in the promotional image of Nitro, which Rio's top driver Thiago drives.
  • As a Shout-Out to The Fast and the Furious, Most Wanted (2012), the Movie Legends Pack adds Dominic Toretto's Charger to the lineup.
  • Appears as one of the three starter cars in Unbound. Fitting a Legendary Customs body kit, well... let's say its a Rice Burner shooting-brake Charger.
• The Meltdown mission of PAYDAY 2, you can use the Longfellow, a 1969 Dodge Charger for quick transportation of the loot.
• The opening sequence of Rock Band 2 has the ahem... rock band perform while standing atop of a Dodge Charger Expy. While moving.
• Can be seen in the Test Drive series. Even the cops drive this classic.

Western Animation

• Brock Samson in The Venture Bros. drives a 1969 Dodge Charger that he has converted to electric.

Dodge Charger (LX/LD)

"The 2006 Dodge Charger SRT8 is the car that a lot of long-time Mopar fans have been waiting for! Finally, a car with the muscle to do real justice, to one of Chrysler's most famous car nameplates."

—Description, 2006 Dodge Charger SRT-8 | Retro Review MotorWeek

The Charger name was finally revived in 2005 after 18 years, first introduced during the year's North American International Auto Shot. This time, it's a full-size four door sedan, serving as the successor to the Dodge Intrepid. It's offered in either rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, usually in either an entry-level Magnum V6 engine to the powerful HEMI or even supercharged Hellcat V8. While being in its sedan body, the Charger retains its muscle car lineage from the original Dodge Charger from The '60s and The '70s.

The first-generation is offered in either its entry Base model, an SXT rim which was the volume seller, its performance-oriented R/T and the top-of-the-line SRT8. Typically that generation is offered with a 5-speed manual transmission at its highest. The second-generation on the other hand includes most of the aforementioned variants, plus the almighty Charger SRT Hellcat, with its supercharged Hemi V8 engine producing 707 horsepower, it's capable of reaching 222 mph on Bonneville Salt Flats. Dodge claimed it was the fastest sedan ever produced.

Chargers have been widely seen for police use in the United States, and in some police agencies internationally.

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Film — Live Action

• Both Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Connor in Fast Five drove SRT8 Chargers used to tow and drag the vault they heisted through the streets of Rio whilst immobilizing the local police during the film's climax.
  • Dom acquired himself an SRT Hellcat for used to chase down his brother Jakob in Montequinto in F9.
  • The same SRT Hellcat was once again in the hands of Dom of Fast X used to stop Dante's Big, Bulky Bomb from detonating the entire city of Rome.

Live-Action TV

• This is Detective Daniel Reagan's car in Blue Bloods, used between seasons three to four.
• Chargers are the police car in Chicago P.D., use by ahem... the Chicago P.D. Other than that, Kevin Atwater as of Season 4 get his hands on his supercharged Cool Car: A Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat.
• Charger R/Ts are something common to find in CSI.
• Detective Charlie Hudson's union-made orange Dodge Charger is his personal Cool Car in Hudson and Rex.
• The Bad Boys (1995) spin-off L.A.'s Finest features the Charger as a common police car.
• It's typically the NYPD's car of choice in Castle (2009) and Law & Order.
• Sam Winchester in Supernatural once owns a black Dodge Charger SRT8. He had everything custom made the way he likes it, much that his older brother Dean likes to mock over.
  Dean: Still driving the plastic piece of crap, huh?
  Sam: What's your mileage, again?
  Dean: Shut up.
  • Sadly, Sam's car became a Car Cushion in one episode where Castiel and Stunt Angel #3 landed on.
• Chargers are very common in S.W.A.T. (2017) since they're widely used for law enforcement. After all, it's a Police Procedural.
• The HBO series True Detective revolves around the cop-spec 2012 Dodge Charger, widely driven by Detective Velcoro. And it could possibly sound bad-ass.

Music

• Morgan Wallen in "You Proof" has his love interest who Drives Like Crazy and acting like Women Drivers in his own Dodge SRT Hellcat.

Video Games

• Chargers are a thing in Asphalt 7: Heat, both in civilian and police form. 9: Legends has the fictionalized Charger police car as the "Security Interceptor", used in Drive Syndicate Undercover Ops.
• The Squad Car in Battlefield Hardline is the Law Enforcement's police car, based on the Dodge Charger. As it is frequently used in reality.
• In Burnout Paradise, the Dodge Charger represents the Hunter Citizen and the Hunter Civilian, as a police car and civilian car respectively. For the latter, the black Hunter Civilians are the Marked Men, who will ensure to prevent you from reaching the goal and beat the shit out of you.
• Dodge Charger SRT8s are a thing in Driver: San Francisco, both in police and civilian form.
• If it is Forza when it comes to the Charger, you have either the SRT8 or the SRT Hellcat.
• The Decussine Taurean AWD in Ghost Recon Wildlands is based off the Charger. Famous narcocorrido El Chido is a proud owner of that car, and so aptly named it "El Chido's car" where you have to steal it and deliver to Malca Charlie in one mission.
• The Charger SRT8 sedan makes its first debut in Gran Turismo 6, but under the SRT name. Sport swaps it for the 707-hp SRT Hellcat (and also in safety car form).
• The FIB Buffalo in Grand Theft Auto IV is based on an LX Charger. It got a civilian model starting in The Ballad of Gay Tony, and Grand Theft Auto V features a Buffalo S as Franklin's signature car, based on the LD Charger.
• Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition REMIX and Los Angeles feature the SRT8 Charger, both being in B-Class. The former is obtained after winning the Wharf Tournament, while latter is also used by the local LAPD, available in regular, Border or Highway skins.
  • Also in 3, alongside it is the 1999 Charger R/T concept car which is a rare sight to behold on.
• Need for Speed features the modern-day Dodge Charger since its introduction in Carbon usually as its police cruiser.
  • In Carbon, it's a Tier 2 Muscle car, which Sal would use. And because of its weight, the Charger can charge on police roadblocks with ease.
  • It is usually the starter car in Hot Pursuit (2010), both for racers and cops to use.
  • The Run has this Signature edition Charger in its Taxi form. Who knows if a taxi like that can go blast past 220 mph+?!
  • Used as a police car in Most Wanted (2012), usually starting with heat 2. The playable variant is the 2012 facelifted Charger SRT8, which would be also playable as well in Rivals for the RCPD.
  • The 2013 Charger acts as the unplayable police car for many of its departments since the 2015 reboot.
  • Unbound marks the return of playable Charger sedans, in form of the Charger SRT Hellcat, with its custom variant available for free by finishing one Meetup race.
• The high-performing muscle saloon is playable in Test Drive Unlimited 2, which is also used for police in Ibiza and Hawaii.
• When Dodge was internationally released in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5, it adds this 5-speed muscle sedan alongside the Viper.
• The Rival in the Taxi Racing Minigame mission of Yakuza 5 is based on the modern Dodge Charger saloon.

Dodge Monaco

Full tank, cigarettes and sunglasses highly required.

"It's got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."

—Elwood J. Blues, The Blues Brothers

The car for every Hollywood Cop Show, Crime Drama or Police Procedural of The '80s, especitally those who have long watched the famous cult classic, The Blues Brothers.

Before the Dodge Charger came into the light, and even before the other brand used a car named after the city of that one tiny principality country, there was this full-sized sedan that started it all in 1965. That is the Dodge Monaco, a luxurious sedan known to its lengthy body, used to replace the aging Dodge Polara. Exactly What It Says on the Tin, the car is named after the Principality of Monaco.

Originally this was intended to compete with its rivals, the Pontiac Grand Prix and the Ford Galaxie 500, which were the trend of the personal luxury vehicle at that time. It was loosely based on their own Dodge Custom 800 hardtop, but featured a different grille, badging, a sporty interior and a 383 cu 325 hp V8 engine.

In 1974, the Dodge Monaco received an overhaul which saw an all-new unibody platform, and all-new sheet metal. However, the car was introduced when the 1973 oil crisis began, which the car and Chrysler received criticism for bringing out huge cars that would be too impractical to drive. The energy crisis would address Dodge to becoming a mid-sized car instead. Despite the criticism, the Dodge Monaco would be offered a police car in numerous departments across the United States, mainly the ones used by the Californig Highway Patrol, the Chicago Police Department and the Illinois State Police.

The Dodge Monaco seized production in 1978, though it would be revived shortly in 1990 as a full-sized sedan, which lasted 4 years as the replacement to the Dodge Diplomat. It would later be succeeded by the Dodge Interpid later on.

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Anime and Manga

• A band of assassins in one episode of Cat's Eye drive by their Monaco-esque sedan and attempt to shoot down an amnesiac Ai Kisugi.
• Despite being set 20 Minutes into the Future, 2047 to be exact... Anna Schneider of takt op. Destiny would still own a 1975 Dodge Monaco. Even if it's nearly a century old at that date, it's still a considered roadworthy Hero's Classic Car.

Film — Live Action

• Arguably the most memorable police cars ever in Hollywood would go to none other than the iconic Bluesmobile from The Blues Brothers. It's a black and white 1974 Dodge Monaco with a comically large megaphone on the roof. Despite its unassuming appearance, it can withstand a lot of hell and back throughout Elwood and Jake's dangerous adventures. Just a full tank, cigarettes and Sunglasses at Night is all what they best need.
• A 1978 Dodge Monaco would be Sheriff Leigh Brackett's car in Halloween (1978).
• Dennis Valkenheiser Nothing but Trouble grabs a nice looking heavily modified 1977 Dodge Monaco Pursuit Package as his cool-looking gumball machine.
• Even by 1984 standards, the LAPD would still use Dodge Monaco police cars in The Terminator. Even the Terminator himself would used this and crash it at the end of a Car Chase.
• Lex Luther's gun moll and personal assistant Eve Teschmacher from Superman: The Movie drove a green Monaco, which caused an "accident", allowing Lex's Bumbling Sidekick Otis to reprogram the nuclear missiles, while the U.S. Army were expressing concern on the roadside incident.
• Monacos were used by the San Francisco Police Department in A View to a Kill.

Live-Action TV

• Name any Cop Show from The '80s. You're highly gonna see a Dodge Monaco as its police car by a very easy chance.
  • A 1974 Dodge Monaco had been one of Jon and Ponch's police cruisers in CHiPs.
  • The Royal Monaco with all its lights ablaze would write itself in the opening credits of Hill Street Blues.
  • The entire T.J. Hooker Monaco police squad doesn't need any more introduction, when they have this as their fleet.
  • Amongst other shows, the Monaco would ultimately end up as the Cool Car of Los Angeles homicide detective Rick Hunter from one of NBC's popular series Hunter (1984).
• It's the sheriff's police car that's everywhere throughout The Dukes of Hazzard. Apart from that, Rosco, Enos & Cletus would use a Monaco for quite a long time.
• Carl Windsor would Resurrect the Wreck in Family Matters. From buying a beaten-up 1977 Dodge Monaco to fully restoring it into a pimped out hot rod, which would be the Cool Car given to his eldest son Eddie. The car would end up Eddie to be in trouble in ''Good Cop, Bad Cop".
• A yellow 1978 Dodge Monaco is highly seen as the Cool Car driven by Ralph Hinkley from The Greatest American Hero.

Video Games

• As a clear Shout-Out of the aforementioned Blues Brothers, you can make John Tanner wear Sunglasses at Night at Driver: San Francisco by rocking a Dodge Monaco. Even the San Francisco PD also have a Monaco in their police fleet! This would play prominence in the "Black and Blue" movie challenge where you in the Monaco are swarm by shit-ton of po-pos in a Monaco.
  • Also, the Monaco would be in the hands of the Getaway Driver, where a Police Officer!Tanner must take down using the "ram" feature, during the "Nick of Time" mission.
• The only police car playable in Interstate '76 is this one, taken out of The Blues Brothers.
• Vincent Moretti and Leo Caruso from A Way Out would use a Monaco Expy as their source of transportation. Even they use the police car when posing as cops.

Dodge/Chrysler/SRT Viper

Beware of snake bites.

"This is an open vehicle - drive carefully... [Beat] NO."

—Jeremy Clarkson, reading the safety warning on the Viper, Top Gear (UK)

Originally a Chrysler sports car, the Dodge Viper is an American supercar introduced in 1992.

Unlike its fellow American sports cars that mostly utilize V8 engines, the Viper on the other hand gets its source of power from a 8.0L OHV V10 combined with a six-speed manual transmission. One source of it is that the engine block was produced in cooperation with Lamborghini, allowing this power plant to deliver over 400 horsepower.

The early version, the RT/10 was originally a sports targa before shifting into a liftback coupe in 1996. In 2002, the Viper saw a major overhaul courtesy of Dodge's performance division, Street & Racing Technology (SRT), renamed the Viper SRT-10.

In 2012, the final generation was introduced, with a fully redesigned body and added new driving aids in order to comply with modern vehicle safety standards. It was marketed as the SRT Viper in 2013 before it was renamed back to Dodge Viper two years later. At the same year, the Fiat Chrysler group ^note Currently as Stellantis in 2021 announces its discontinuation of the Viper in 2017.

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Anime and Manga

• One of the codenamed members of the Black Organization named Chianti from Detective Conan is a ruthless mania who dons herself a blue and white striped Dodge Viper as her Cool Car to commence her killing spree.

Film — Live-Action

• In the Made-for-TV Movie Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, the titular duo attempts to escape the two goons from the Chambrulay Hotel by hijacking Tony Hawk's red Viper SRT-10 convertible. It later became a Brick Joke in the epilogue where the same Viper they stole from earlier was used to hitch two unnamed girls for a cruise.
• Clay in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift races his red 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 against Sean Boswell's 1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. While Clay tries to Car Fu Sean off-course, the latter returns the favor by bumping and spinning the Viper out, as it hits a concrete tube, wrecking it.
• A red Viper was used by Dean and Liana in ''The Ninth Gate', driving around the open French roads.
• A beautiful red R/T is not only a beautiful cruiser, but also a lethal bruiser, which Professor Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor (1996) drives when he poses as Buddy Love, following his surprising weight loss.
• The SRT-10 Viper in Wanted is the key car Angelina Jolie's character was using to skid sideways and open the passenger door to help catch her accomplice, Wesley Gibson, saving him from getting killed.

Live-Action TV

• An episode of Diagnosis: Murder has Bill give Jennifer a Dodge Viper for an anniversary gift.
• Chrysler launched a TV series called Viper on NBC in 1994 to serve as a promotional tool for the Viper. The series centers on a special task force set up by the federal government to fight crime in the fictional city of Metro City, California that is perpetually under siege by crime waves. The weapon used by this task force is a grey assault vehicle known as "The Defender" that masquerades as a red Dodge Viper RT/10 roadster (and later, a blue Viper GTS coupe).

Music

• Darude in "Feel the Beat" has the titular artist taking a spin in a yellow Viper RT/10 with a young woman through the beautiful countryside.
• There's a brief moment when Dido at the start of the second chorus of "White Flag" where she stop her Viper cabrio alongside her smitten ex in his Ferrari F355.
• The 2000's single "Bye Bye Bye" by *NSYNC, has one scene in the music video where JC and Lance drives a red Dodge Viper RT/10 while being chased by Kim Smith in a silver BMW Z3.
• The SRT Viper must be highly associated with rappers who made songs for Furious 7.
  • T.I. and Young Thug in "Off-Set" highly centralized the SRT Viper throughout the entirety of the music video.
  • The near-ending of the music video "See You Again" has the artist Wiz Khalifa seen leaning on his white and blue-striped fifth-gen Viper.

Video Games

• Blur has 3 different Viper variants: Track-day Viper ACR (and its Legendary variant), the Hennessey-tuned Dodge Viper Venom 1000 and the almighty Viper GTS-R Concept, with the latter most belonging to Carver, the boss in the league Loose Cannon.
• Any car with the "Muscle" name throughout the Burnout is likely to be a Viper Expy.
• A Dodge Viper pace car can be seen in the Attract Mode of Daytona USA 2: Power Edition. The version seen in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, however, replaces it with a Palette Swap of the game's usual stock car model.
• Completing Team Race Activity 2 of Driver: San Francisco and the Viper SRT-10 ACR is yours to buy. Don't fret, even if it looks track, it's still street legal.
• In Forza, while it's common to see the Viper in various Forza Motorsport games, the 2012 Dodge Viper GTS would become the feature car in both the prologue and the cover art of the first installment of its spinoff Forza Horizon.
• The Viper has been a mainstay of the Gran Turismo series ever since the first game, being one of the popular choices for a Disc-One Nuke car in most installments. Its racing variant, the Viper GTS-R Team Oreca is one of the iconic examples that gained popularity from the fanbase. Dodge Vipers would also be widely used in Laguna Seca Driving Tests.
• In every Grand Theft Auto from III onwards (except for ones where it'd be anachronistic), the Bravado Banshee appears as a parody of the Dodge Viper. For Grand Theft Auto V, the car was Defictionalized for a giveaway hosted by GameStop.
• The very first race of the first Grid game puts you in a Dodge Viper SRT-10 ^note Actually, a Hennessey Viper Venom 1000 provided by Ravenwest (as featured on the cover), who have kindly lent you this car for your licensing race at San Francisco. The later games would use the 2013 Viper instead.
  Engineer: Okay, [player name], you're in the Viper for this one. And with an 8 ½ litre, 500 brake horse V10 under the hood, this car doesn't do subtle.
• The Infinity in Horizon Chase resembles the 2003 Viper SRT-10. Its Portuguese tagline "Poeira. Levanta poeira"^TranslationDust. Raises dust refers to the song Sorte Grande, by the famous Brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo.
• Juiced features the Viper GTS as bar none the most powerful car ever in the game, even when it's fully upgraded. Perfect for sprint events if you want easy money, fast. One of the body kits allow the Viper to resemble the Hennessey Viper Venom 800TT. Its sequel adds this and the convertible SRT-10, both part of the League 2 supercars.
• Midnight Club II has the Dodge Viper GTS-R Concept as the "Jersey XS", and is driven by Dice, the LA champ. The third game fully licensed the said concept Viper GTS-R, and despite being a Class B tuner for some odd reason, fully upgrade it and you'll be able to even beat Class A Exotics.
• Once you start NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup, the game begins with you driving a Dodge Viper SRT-10 around New York as you race Ryan Newman, who is also in that identical Viper. And you haven't even gotten to all the stock-car racing experience yet!
• The Need for Speed is the first game to ever feature the Viper, using the RT/10 Model. It later return in Hot Pursuit 2 but using the second-gen GTS model, both available for racers and cops.
  • The Viper SRT-10 later appears in Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and it's driven by JV, #4 on the Blacklist.
  • In ProStreet, an Energizer Lithium edition is obtainable via Cheat Code.
  • One of GMAC's Co-Dragons Nickel in Undercover drives a white facelifted Viper SRT-10 with black and green stripes.
  • Need for Speed: Shift also included the Viper SRT-10, but with a hardtop roof by default. A Coke Zero edition can be redeemable via promotional gift. While the Viper is retained in its sequel, the Speedhunters Pack included the Twins Turbo Motorsport Viper GTS, tuned by the Kozeluh Twins for the Standing Mile events, and it can pretty do well in corners too.
  • The last-gen SRT Viper GTS is one of the RCPD supercars of Rivals. The Ultimate Racer Pack gives racers of Redview a special Viper TA instead. This version of the Viper would be present in all its subsequent games.
• Vipers are everywhere in Project Gotham Racing. By 3, the brand is full of nothing but only Viper models.
• There is this guy named Wong of R-Tuned Ultimate Street Racing who rocks a 2003 Viper Convertible. An unplayable car from an unplayable brand.
• The second Advanced-level car in San Francisco Rush is a first-generation Viper with double stripes.
• The Dodge Viper is a common car found in Test Drive, whereas Viper GTS serves as the cover car for 4, 5 and 6. In TD Overdrive, the Viper GTS-R Concept is the car of Vasily Raskolnikov, in which Donald Clark sets Dennis Black up to beat him just to obtain the said Viper for his own personal gain.
  • In Test Drive Unlimited 2, the Viper is the choice of police car in both Ibiza and Hawaii departments, and you can get to drive this in Chase Mode.
• Tokyo Xtreme Racer:
  • Thunder Dragoon, who appear in 2, Zero and 3, are a team composed of Chinese immigrants who all drive Vipers of varying colors.
  • Andrew Bergman, leader of Nagoya's Face to Faith, also drives a cyan Dodge Viper in 3.
  • Remaining in Nagoya, the Viper is also the signature car of one of the city's strongest racers (and one of the game's bosses), "Flame Dragon" Makoto Abe: his is wrapped in dragon scale vinyls.
• Lance Wilder would be cruising in the hottest sports car of Twisted Metal 3; a Viper-esque Spectre which broke the mold from the previous two games (which the Spectre was a Corvette). It's also the fastest vehicle in the game.
• The Dodge Viper SR II is featured exclusively in the 1998 3D game Viper Racing.

Western Animation

• The car Commander Kiva Andru in Megas XLR was driving looks like a blue/white striped second-gen Viper GTS, whilst escaping from the Glorfts. Coop having no time to get in jumps in the window, getting himself stuck, because of his stout body.

Ram pickup

"This pickup is more reliable than some friends of yours. It's also a great listener."

—Description, Far Cry 5

Dodge has a huge history of pickup trucks, but the one the grew popularity amongst the masses in America is none other than the Ram pickup truck.

It was originally the Dodge Ram, which was the brand's series of light trucks when it was introduced in 1980 after retiring and rebadging the aging Dodge D-series, with its signature "Ram" emblem reintroduced since 1954, it also defines as Dodge's new logo of 1993. It's offered in either a regular full-sized pickup, a medium chassis cab or a heavy-duty truck with six wheels. Usually, Rams use LA/Magnum/HEMI V8 engines, but also inline-6 diesel engines built by Cummings.

A high-performance variant called the Dodge Ram SRT-10 was unveiled in 2004, based on the standard third-generation Ram 1500, with about 10,000 units produced. Under the hood would be powered by the same V10 engine as the Dodge Viper powered with about 500 hp. It's arguably the fastest pickup truck to date, reaching speeds of 154 mph (248 km/h).

In 2010, Ram would go to be its own brand, while bringing the Ram logo alongside them, forcing Dodge to change their logo, using two red inclined stripes. (which would be signature stripes on its front fenders)

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Film — Live Action

• While pickup trucks are extremely common for American Law Enforcement, it's unusual why the Special Investigation Section would use a high-performing Ram Rebel TRX as one of its fleet in Ambulance...
• Let's face it. Machine Gun Joe's 2004 Dodge Ram from Death Race is pretty bad-ass. Comes with Macross Missile Massacre and lots of Gatling Good galore on his Weaponized Car.
• A Dodge Ram pickup was used in the hands of Mooks to chase down John McClane at one Chase Scene of Die Hard with a Vengeance. The chase concludes with McLane by ramming the Ram and forcing it off the road at the cost of their Mercedes.
• Dodge Rams are the battering rams that rams through The Fast and the Furious:
  • Several custom Ram pickups were shown ambushing the police and literally ramming them, as means of distraction while allowing many street racers to escape undetected in 2 Fast 2 Furious.
  • Luke Hobbs runs the "Ice Ram" in The Fate of the Furious. It's not an ordinary Ram though, but it uses ice treads instead of wheels, allowing him to drive through ice and snow whilst stopping the Russian submarine from launching nuclear missiles during the climax.
• The 1981 Dodge Ram made it all the way to the 2011 Footloose remake, used in one Chase Scene.
• The rusty old Ram Heavy Duty would be considered the not-so-Invincible Classic Car for a 2067 setting, owned by former NASA astronaut Joseph Cooper from Interstellar, which the car is about a half a century old that's sitting on an eroding Earth.
• A Ram 1500 Rebel is the truck Logan use wherever they go and escort Laura (X-23) to the American-Canadian border for refuge, while escaping from the eyes of Donald Pierce the militant Reavers, who even use Ram 1500 trucks. Because... Everyone in the film owns FIAT Chrysler automobiles.^note Or Stellantis automobiles as of 2021.
• Everybody Owns A Ram pickup as part of a Product Placement deal with Stellantis for the film Monster Trucks, two being also monster trucks driven by main characters.
• The 2012 remake of Red Dawn effectively replaces Jed Eckert's Chevy K-10 Cheyenne from the original with a 1991 Dodge Ram.
• Everybody knows that Twister treats the iconic Dodge Ram 2500 as The Alleged Car that got sucked into an F-5 tornado. At least in the sequel Twisters, it treats the Ram pickup as the Cool Car of Tyler used for his storm chasing.
• It's a sick looking custom Dodge quad cab owned by Booth from the 2004 Walking Tall remake, which Ray and Chris try to get him to talk by forcibly strip off his pickup truck piece by piece with a power saw. It's agonizing, yet it doesn't work.

Live-Action TV

• Can be seen extremely often throughout Army Wives.
• This is both Antonio Dawson's and Jay Halstead's truck in Chicago P.D. Another example of a Ram has this perp turn a Car Chase into an explosion due to a truck carrying volatile acetones. Eat your heart out, Michael Bay.
• A blue 3/4 ton long box 4x4 Ram club cab is the truck of Inspector Evan Cortez of Nash Bridges.
• A red 1986 Dodge Ram is the Kent family's farm truck owned by Jonathan Kent in Smallville, which Clark recklessly totaled it. Twice. Insurance must be a total pain for him.
  Sheriff Adams: Well, Mr. Kent, your family sure has its way of going through vehicles.
• Since Castiel had been driving numerous cars throughout Supernatural, he used a silver Dodge Ram SRT-10 as his transportation throughout seasons 14 and 15.
• This is Jason Stackhouse's truck used throughout True Blood. A black Dodge Ram 1500 cab.
• The official car ever known of Walker, Texas Ranger is the iconic 1995 Dodge Ram 1500. A cool truck that perfectly suits with the character played by the legend himself, Chuck Norris!
• As an example of emphasizing the Ram name as a huge Product Placement, there's lots of Ram Heavy Duty pickup trucks acting as the ranch's vehicles and owned by the Duttons of Yellowstone.

Music

• Emerging from the start of "Beep Beep" by BTOB, comes the boys rolling in their Ace Custom Ram that steals most of the spotlight... with a Hot Paint Job for added flare!
• Charli XCX love to lie about the title "White Mercedes", where obviously, there's no Mercedes to show. Instead, she rides atop of a white Ram monster stuck with her pink fluffy ballgown flowing with the speed.
• A Ram 1500 TRX would be the star cruising truck Nelly and the Florida Georgia Line use in the song "Lil Bit".

Video Games

• Alan Wake can drive this Ram-based Bright Falls Light & Power Pickup throughout episode 3. Except for one cutscene where it's an Obvious Stunt Double for another pickup based on another brand. Chevy S-10 to be exact.
• This mighty aggressor, the Hunter Takedown 4x4 in Burnout Paradise uses a Dodge Ram as the basis.
• Meet El Machismo, that larger than life off-road racing pickup truck with No Indoor Voice from Cars Race-O-Rama, who is based on the bigger than big, badder than bad Dodge Ram. And that Macho Ram is even voice by the late Macho Man Randy Savage!
• Rams are a perfect off-road truck for Landrush events in DIRT 2. First, there's the Power Wagon, with its livery by default that screams America. Jayde Taylor uses this with her unique livery. And finally Dodge Ram Trophy Truck for the... "Trophy Truck" category, used by Tanner Foust.
• The final mission of Driver: San Francisco puts Charles Jericho in a black Dodge Ram SRT-10, while making his desperate attempt to escape from John Tanner. Then at the warehouse, Jericho tries to ram Tanner during the warehouse standoff... ...before he got sideswiped and incapacitated by Tobias Jones in a Police interceptor.
• Want a reliable American pickup that even screams America? Then the 1981 Dodge Ram-based Hillside 1600 is the truck you can use in Far Cry 5. There's even a sportier 1600-M, which is akin to the real life 1981 Dodge Power Ram.
• The Ram Rebel TRX Concept is where you get A Taste of Power during the opening of Forza Horizon 4's Fortune Island expansion, and you get to keep it, too.
• The bulkiest juggernaut you can ever get is that HEMI quad cab in Gran Turismo 4. Perfect for Arcade Mode and Family Cup, even on the hardest difficulty where the AI use pathetically slow cars (such as a Honda S800 or Daihatsu Midget). You get easy 200 A-spec points with this truck.
• One of Ryback's racing truck of Split/Second (2010) is the RAM 1500-based Ryback Thunder.
• This happens to a Dodge Ram pickup when it became an Instant Convertible in the Interactive Movie Wirehead.

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