It’s no secret that Dodge overbuilt Challengers and Chargers to stack dealer inventory while the electric 2025 Charger Daytona is getting prepared. However, inventory is limited, and the number of rare and desirable examples on offer is dwindling. Now, just 31 of these manual Challenger Hellcats remain on dealership lots nationwide according to Dodge’s website, and you could be one of the lucky few to take one home.
A 2023 Challenger SRT Hellcat with a manual transmission is a bit of a holy grail. Sure, the eight-speed automatic may be faster, but banging gears is a muscle car tradition, and if you’re gonna go all-out, you might as well go with the Tremec. While a 717-horsepower 6.2-liter supercharged V8 likely doesn’t need any more drama, this is your last chance to dance. Besides, Dodge actually discontinued the six-speed manual option in the Hellcats before bringing it back for one short-lived last hurrah, so finding a used 2022 model would be impossible.
Mopar fans aren’t typically introverts, and Dodge has a long and proud history of outrageous colors. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the models that remain are in greyscale shades, but a few bold gems remain. How about a single Sublime car, or an example in F8 Green, or something in Octane Red, or even one lone B5 Blue car?
If you’re looking for a widebody model, pickings are even slimmer. Only three manual widebody Hellcats are left in nationwide dealer inventory, one of which is black, one of which is red, and one of which is the gorgeous F8 Green. That last F8 Green one certainly isn’t cheap with a sticker price of $93,336, but whoever scores that will be buying an unforgettable experience.
Keep in mind, all 2023 Challenger SRT Hellcat models are what Dodge calls Jailbreak cars, meaning whoever specced these went bowling with the bumpers down when it came to colors, options, and upholstery choices. You can buy one with zero options for $72,890, or one with all the options pushing up close to $100,000, but few true pairs exist. For instance, that F8 Green Widebody example has brown seat belts and yellow calipers, according to its listing. How odd is that?
While Dodge’s website is vague as to where exactly these cars are located, they’re out there, and if you’re willing to take a walk on the wild side, you could drive one of them home. The Hellcat personified car culture for the better part of a decade. Long may this ludicrous engine and the cars it was fitted to remain absolute legends.
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Just 31 Brand New Manual Dodge Challenger Hellcats Are Left In America
I read this as “all but 31 of all Hellcats have been totaled, burned or blown up” and thought: clarkson-oh-no-anyway.gif
As long as the splitter covers are chucked in the bin before delivery, I wish any purchaser of one of these cars God speed and good luck.
GOOD. These Charger/Challenger people are becoming worse than Altima people…
There are also R/Ts out there with the manual, and if the dealer advertised prices are to be believed, they are available for less than $40k. Kind of tempting, still plenty of power there.
And bonus, even the 5.7 comes without MSDS if a manual is attached to it.
Material Safety Data Sheets?
I love me some Challengers, vintage to modern, and I probably hold them in higher regard than the 4-door Chargers (which isn’t fair, it’s just the 2-door thing). But I just can’t fathom paying $100,000 for a Challenger, even with a Hellcat. Breaking 6 digits feels like European exotic territory, and maybe you can’t get a Porsche for that, but it feels like a stretch for a Dodge that isn’t a Viper. And it’s still weird to see manuals disappear from new cars completely.
Sadly we are getting to that age when we cannot really put into context the inflation numbers we are seeing. suddenly even starter homes are 200K or more, basic ass work trucks are in the high 40’s, though more often than not 60-70k. 2 bedroom apartments are 1500 a month or more. and 50K a year is damn near poverty level of pay.
I’ve been shopping to replace my truck recently, and I was rather shocked when I put the purchase price from 9 years ago into an inflation calculator. The equivalent price today was something like 15 or 16 thousand dollars higher. The trucks I’m looking at are actually cheaper on an inflation-adjusted basis than the one I’m replacing, despite being much more expensive in absolute terms.
The truck prices must be the only numbers that work nationally, because my starter home was way more than that 20+ years ago and it was just a townhouse.
For those of us in the Gen X group in the midwest of course, My starter home in the 90’s was a 4 square 3 bedroom two bath with detached garage that cost me 40K in 1999. when I moved to a mid to large metropolis type city in 2005, I bought a 4 bedroom 2 bath single car garage house in an older neighborhood, but not blighted and it was 130K. You cannot buy a 2 bedroom house in the hood for under 200K these days. (I did sell that old 4 square for double the money in 2004)
I’m pretty sure there are 200+ cities / towns in the US where starter homes are over $1 million.
I’m really becoming that old man talking about prices “back in my day.”
I’ve generally stopped commenting here, because I am not always a productive commenter to put it nicely.
Lately, I’ve significantly reduced my visits to the website over all though. That is because of these stupid video pop ups and your amazingly slow load times. This is the slowest website I have visited in years, and its slow every single day. Then we get pop up ads (DT videos) scrolling down the side that I have to take the time to block every time something loads around here. I’ve read dozens of comments against these ads, you guys always said you wouldn’t do shit like this, and here we are.
So not a “productive” comment, but one you ignore from people over and over. Get rid of those videos, or not and bring up memories of Jalopnik slide shows.
It’s not too bad on a PC, but on my phone it’s slow and I’m losing a third of my screen to the same pop-up video on every page (which sometimes goes away on first click and sometimes takes a load of clicks to kill, only to have it pop back up again). Unfortunately due the the login-via-email thing I can only comment on my phone, so I have to really, really want to comment.
Then when I get a reply to a comment I have to pick which reply I want to read because the notifications just vanish.
I love the content, and what the site stands for, but I avoid reading it on my phone now, which is a shame.
Note to Editors here.
The stupid notifications thing loses all my replies to comments. This sucks.
And should be easy to remedy.
Please fix this…
True that. I noticed the notifications vanishing a few months ago and switched to my PC for commenting. Now when I have more than 1 comment I just right click and open the remaining comments on extra tabs. Not ideal but it’s been working for me.
PS. I think you can also open up several comments in tabs by long pressing the notification until a pop up window prompts you to several options including open link in a new tab. But I still prefer the PC; just much more space to work with
Thanks.
Have an old apple here.
Being an aging boomer I don’t know how to do the right click option.
Maybe there’s someone who can help me here? lol
On Macs I think you need to hold the Control Key + click on your mouse.
Just make sure the click is right on the comment so it shows the pop up menu for a new tab
Thank you. Have been told this before but brain damage has ruined the short term RAM in my head. I will try it and post a sticky note on the MacBook till it becomes a memory.
I really appreciate good folks like you.
Have a great day.
A two-finger click on a track pad will also work; if you’re using a traditional two-button (or more) mouse with MacOS, right click behaves like Cmd+click.
Mobile OS’s respond in a similar way (i.e., show the context menu) with a long press on a link.
Same. I’ve had this problem on Android and Windows for many months and its damned annoying. I’ve sent a few emails to Matt but so far nothing.
you can try right click on every other notification and open in a new tab. It has worked for me
Awesome! Thanks!
It’d be nice if the site worked properly instead though.
Genuinely, without sarcasm, thank you for knowing you’ve hit your limit and not continuing to rage in a way that drags on the general site commentary.
Unfortunately, you’re exactly the sort of mindful person that makes for better comments sections, and it’s everyone’s loss for you and those like you to drop out of the community.
I also share many of these same issues with the site. I have offered to try to help in a professional capacity but not received any traction or responses from the staff (re: load times, the months-old notifications bug the Col Lingus mentions downthread, extremely disparate experiences on mobile vs web, the inability to edit mobile comments from Web and vice versa, etc).
Edit to add: professionally as in this is what I do for work. I offered my services for free, but my wording didn’t make that clear.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Just shut up and wait for the OTA download update to the site…/s
But I know shit about this stuff, except that these issues are aggravating as shit. YMMV?
And there’s always some DT video window that partially covers up the notifications window. So if I try to close out the damn DT window, then everything is gone. WTF?
That’s frustrating. I suspect a lot of the issues stem from third-party software vendors not directly under the control of The Autopian, but the number of comments I see about how bad the ads are (something, something, NoScript, something, something) makes me think they really need to prioritize this somehow.
I’d love to own a stick shift Hellcat Challenger, that said, I can’t warrant trading my home and multiple junkers to still be day-to-day and questioning filling the tank.
The Challenger is one of the few cars on the road today where when I encounter one, I immediately pay attention to it. That’s what a brilliantly designed car will do to a car nut.
I want to care. I really do.
Yet the bros that usually own these tend to be douchebags of the highest order.
As such IDGAF. YMMV
I appreciate that you can expand to nationwide on their inventory search tool. I didn’t think any manufacturer sites did that, they usually cap out at a couple hundred miles or the closest handful of dealers. Chevy seems to let you go to 2,000mi which is almost nationwide, depending where you live anyway.
Looks like it’s already down to 29 cars! Odd it didn’t show the dealer for you as it is for me, seems like a lot of them are at Koons Tysons in VA. Actually most of them, 17 when you filter down to that store.
Coming soon to Facebook classifieds near you:
“Rear 2023 manuel dodge chalnjer. 1 of 31 every made, super rear car.”
“ That last F8 Green one certainly isn’t cheap with a sticker price of $93,336, but whoever scores that will be buying an unforgettable experience.”
Even if you have dementia?
I dated a girl named Dementia, once. It wasn’t a memorable occasion.
I bet you went to a restarant with her, but the waitress forgot about you both…