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The Dodge Charger may have dialed its last call in 2023, ending an era that spanned 57 years (sadly, not continuous), seven generations, and two basic body styles. Initially a two-door muscle car, the Charger reinvented itself as a brawny sedan in the 21st century. With the rise of virtual possibilities, the iconic Dodge nameplate gained another purpose – a digital nomad’s mobile home as a most unlikely caravan. Fortunately, it only happened in pixel land, but that’s polarizing enough.
Dodge played with the Charger throughout the ages, sending it on the stage in 1966 to bear the flag of the Street HEMI for Chrysler’s sake. The model was spared from its Challenger relative’s fate when the Malaise struck and regrouped into the personal luxury segment. It even endured the front-wheel drive hatchback public flaying in the eighties before going into a two-decade hibernation that allowed it to shed its skin and come back as the sedan we knew until last year.
All that was the real deal – emphasis on ‘real’ – whether we worshipped it or downright wished it were dead and buried under a pile of depleted EV battery packs. But there’s one place where nothing is forbidden, everything is immediately possible, and no one cares about political correctness, hurt feelings, or other alienating nonsense: the digital world of car visualization.
With powerful tools at the touch of a button, a talented pixel tamer can put a dream into an image within minutes – even if said fantasy is centered around a demigod of automotive, like the Dodge Charger. This is precisely what an imaginative artist (stage name tuningcar_ps on social media) with a knack for bending reality, limits, rules, and pixels has done.
Typically, there’s no law against hacking an iconic machine and desecrating it in any way, shape, or form imaginable, and virtual stylists know this. Besides, a bit of controversy never hurt anyone, even when foul play might be called from the side. With the latest retirement of the Charger (let’s keep some dim hope for the future, shall we?), imagining the late sedan as a recreational vehicle is like spreading gossip about someone at their funeral. Or is it?
Although the artist didn’t waste a lot of time in grafting a living space on the rear half of a Charger, the results are a mixer of feelings that would turn a gearhead’s emotions into a very silky smoothie. By nature, the last-generation Charger and its HEMI support for the MAGA movement is not intended to go far outside paved roads.
Hell(cat), it isn’t even meant to go straight when its wheels are firmly in contact with the tarmac. So, a camper isn’t the best possible practical use for a nameplate that’s nearly synonymous with nefarious behavior and tire bullying. Still, would it be cool to have one, albeit only to thrash it near a hiking trail, scaring the migration out of brooding fauna?
All that was the real deal – emphasis on ‘real’ – whether we worshipped it or downright wished it were dead and buried under a pile of depleted EV battery packs. But there’s one place where nothing is forbidden, everything is immediately possible, and no one cares about political correctness, hurt feelings, or other alienating nonsense: the digital world of car visualization.
With powerful tools at the touch of a button, a talented pixel tamer can put a dream into an image within minutes – even if said fantasy is centered around a demigod of automotive, like the Dodge Charger. This is precisely what an imaginative artist (stage name tuningcar_ps on social media) with a knack for bending reality, limits, rules, and pixels has done.
Typically, there’s no law against hacking an iconic machine and desecrating it in any way, shape, or form imaginable, and virtual stylists know this. Besides, a bit of controversy never hurt anyone, even when foul play might be called from the side. With the latest retirement of the Charger (let’s keep some dim hope for the future, shall we?), imagining the late sedan as a recreational vehicle is like spreading gossip about someone at their funeral. Or is it?
Although the artist didn’t waste a lot of time in grafting a living space on the rear half of a Charger, the results are a mixer of feelings that would turn a gearhead’s emotions into a very silky smoothie. By nature, the last-generation Charger and its HEMI support for the MAGA movement is not intended to go far outside paved roads.
Hell(cat), it isn’t even meant to go straight when its wheels are firmly in contact with the tarmac. So, a camper isn’t the best possible practical use for a nameplate that’s nearly synonymous with nefarious behavior and tire bullying. Still, would it be cool to have one, albeit only to thrash it near a hiking trail, scaring the migration out of brooding fauna?
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