Dodge Charger (L-body)

The 1987 Dodge Charger " Shelby Edition"

The Dodge Charger the years 1983-1987 was based on the Dodge Omni Sport Coupe.

The name " Charger" drove the original meaning of the name already almost ridiculous. At least, judged the friends of the former muscle cars. In fact, the compact car in a small footprint but possessed a quite sporty handling.

With the model year 1983 the Dodge was renamed 024 in Dodge Charger, the Plymouth - parallel model was now called Turismo. In the program were in the base version of a 1.7-liter four-cylinder engine from Volkswagen, later a 1.6 - liter four-cylinder Peugeot, also a Charger 2.2 and, as of spring 1983, the Shelby Charger with a gebrachtem to 109 PS 2 0.2 - liter engine. Carroll Shelby was working at that time recently closely with Dodge together, and the Dodge Shelby Charger was an uprated and technically and visually sportier version of the Charger. The Shelby Charger needed 8.5 seconds for the sprint to 100 km / h according to factory specification.

1984 (but not the Shelby Charger, which also had a simpler grille ) received the Charger a facelift with a new front fascia and dual headlights and a new bonnet. The vehicle length has increased from 4387 mm to 4440 mm. The previously existing third side window gave way to a very wide C-pillar. The 2.2 - liter four-cylinder surcharge was now in a 112 hp (82 kW) version. The same engine was standard on the Shelby Charger use, fitted with new front and rear spoilers, a Cd value of 0.37 reached.

From model year 1985, the Shelby Charger was driven by the 2.2-liter in a 148 -hp turbocharged version. Four different paint finishes were now to choose from instead of the previous only the colors silver and Santa Fe blue. 1987 accounted for the 1.6-liter base engine. With the 1987 model year ended Charger production. Since 1981, this model of a total of around 204,000 copies have been produced, of which just 15,803 Shelby Charger with a suction and 17,389 with a turbo engine.