Dodge Rolls on With ‘Last Call’ Editions

The speed freaks at Dodge pulled a two-fer yesterday with what are technically the third and fourth of seven Dodge special-edition "Last Call" models. Called the Swinger, they’re based on the R/T Scat Pack trim and are both Widebody models – but no word if there’s a pineapple included to display in the windshield when parked.

Only 1,000 each of the 2023 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack Swinger and 2023 Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack Swinger will be produced. As we’ve noted before, Dodge has said they will be allocating all these cars at once to salivating dealers and – here’s the twist – posting that information on a public website. This should create the kind of scavenger hunt not seen since that time in grade school when teachers hid candy around the classroom. 

Those who recall the old Dodge Dart Swinger can recreate a homage to that car’s classic green-on-green colorway by choosing from either F8 Green or Sublime Green exterior color options, paired with a smattering of green interior trim. White Knuckle paint is also available as an option. Throwback cursive graphics crop up on the rear fenders, wrapping around the bodywork as they did on the original cars roughly 50 years ago. Gold tinted addenda (appropriately called ‘Gold School’) pops up on the grille, spoiler, and wheels. 

Black six-piston Brembo-branded brakes are part of the deal, as are Nappa/Alcantara seats with green stitching and a green Dodge logo. Your author is partial to the Shaker hood scoop on the Challenger variant, partly because I’m an irritating extrovert but also because that detail jumps and shakes (hence its name) with every prod of the driver’s right foot. It’s a tremendous bit of theatre, the type of which for which some of us will pine after the last internal combustion shuts down for good in the year 20whatever.

All 2023 Dodge Charger and Challenger models, regardless of trim, carry a special commemorative “Last Call” underhood plaque which will surely make every 2023 Charger and Challenger especially desirable to attendees of Barrett-Jackson several decades from now. A solid half dozen special-edition Challenger and Charger models will be revealed through September 21, 2022. The seventh and final 2023 Dodge model — promised to be “the very last of its kind” — will be revealed at the 2022 SEMA Show in Vegas, scheduled for early November.

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