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Dodge Challenger "Baby SUV" Looks Adorable, Flexes Its Muscle

Dodge Challenger "Baby SUV" rendering 5 photos
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Is the contraption sitting before us a body for a shopping cart, is it a Dodge Challenger that's been in a really weird crash? No, we're dealing with one of the trends that have taken over the automotive realm: a rendering.
Some of these pixel efforts are speculative, allowing us to check out future models based on spy media and existing info, other explore potential new models while relying on nothing more than rumors, while certain pieces simply introduce various specs. Well, there's one extra sub-genre, which happens to include the work sitting before us and this is purely about the giggles.

And what better way to put a smile on an aficionado's face with the help of such a... compressed Challenger if not using the meanest Mopar toy of them all, the 840 horsepower Demon?

Oh, and this visual stunt, which comes from a label dubbed Car News Network, also talks about Dodge turning the Challenger into an SUV. Thankfully, though, as we mentioned when discussing a rendering dedicated to this matter, there's no need for the automotive producer to upset us like that.

Instead, Dodge has the Durango and while the model's range-topper is currently the 6.4-liter HEMI-rocking SRT, this will get the Hellcat muscle soon. And since the Durango is larger than the Grand Cherokee, packing a longer wheelbase and a third row of seats, this won't cannibalize Jeep's mighty Trackhawk.

The always-in-for-an-adventure engineers have even worked on the project during the lockdown, taking the task into their own garages, so here's a round of applause for those efforts.

Meanwhile, there are more important questions, as follows: zooming in on the lower front fascia of this Durango-involving rendering, we notice a pair of round elements, so is this yet another twin-turbo Demon out to break quarter-mile records and purists’ hearts?

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