There’s a new Dodge Charger out there. You may have heard about it, being electric and all. To ensure everyone is in the know about the 2025 Charger Daytona, Dodge launched a special interactive website that looks like it uses a web design template straight from Y2K.
You can see for yourself at Dodgechargerportal.com… if you can get it to load. It took a few tries for us, oftentimes hanging up at 50 or 86 percent for several minutes at a time. We checked our dial-up to make sure it was cooking at the full 56k, then remembered we’re on a wired 1GB ethernet connection. And yet, here we are, still hovering at 86 percent.
Still, could be worse. We couldn’t get the site to load at all on mobile.
Photo by: Motor1.com
When it does load, we’re greeted by “Garrett” who is standing by as the virtual tour guide in this virtual Dodge garage. Swipe around and you’ll see a Charger Daytona Scat Pack, Charger Daytona R/T, and something under a cover that may or may not be a Banshee. There are also videos, explainers, “deep dives,” and more.
It’s all rendered with the sharpness of 1994’s Wing Commander 3, and we’re pretty sure we used that interface on some interactive encyclopedias back in the day.
Are we being a bit harsh here? Probably, but seeing Garrett’s choppy avatar set against a standard-definition garage certainly caught us off guard.
Photo by: Dodge
To Dodge’s credit, the company is trying like hell to get people excited about the Charger Daytona. The car isn’t slow, and it doesn’t look bad, either. This website (when it works) is full of information, and then there’s the car under the cover. It’s clearly a teaser for something more powerful—probably the Banshee, slated to replace the old Hellcat as the top-dog Charger with gobs of electric horsepower.
But that was before the departure of ex-Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares, who was apparently the only one who wanted to kill the Hemi in America. Now that everything has changed, could that white cover be hiding a new Charger Hellcat? It sort of looks like there’s a Demon-esque hood scoop under there. Maybe that’s why Dodge commissioned such a low-quality website. Gotta pay for that research and development somehow.
In any case, Dodge doesn’t seem too interested in promoting the website. We only found it mentioned through Stellantis North America’s social account on X (formerly Twitter), and frankly, we wouldn’t be surprised if it disappears in lieu of some upgrades.
But if you’re a child of the 1990s, you could do worse than jump onto the site and bump around, if only for the retro experience.
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