2020 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack WIDEBODY Review // The Sweet Spot

This is the 2020 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack widebody with a Manual Transmission. It hits 60mph in 4.3 seconds and costs as tested, $69K (+fees) Canadian. With the Hellcats costing a bunch more, could this be the best all-around Challenger on sale? Watch to find out. Subscribe!

Okay james yeah this is your first muscle car meet okay you brought a challenger along yes went over some stuff yesterday i want to make i want to make sure you got it up here okay you got to not be you you have to be okay scat pack what does it mean uh it’s bagapu no no it’s not a bag no has to do with frank sinatra oh yeah rat pack yeah and you know like scouting

Should we do that like like get out of here right yeah but not not okay kind of like that anyway the super bee logo really iconic b with a cape and it saves crimes no james no super b like like the like the b body design from the 60’s oh yes yes yeah yeah okay anyway these are manly men like think oh like there’s a lot of miata in here well there is yeah right

So just like really think okay off you go okay hey guys hey guy hey guys anyone want to wrestle did you did you watch the wrestling last night can we start over you’re watching throttle s i’m thomas and i’m james and this is the 2020 rt scat pack challenger with a manual transmission red eyes and demons may take the headlines but the truth is as nuts as

Those supercharged monsters are there’s another option that attempts to find the happy medium between performance and affordability since dodge doesn’t seem to have a new version of the challenger coming over the horizon what we end up with are about a million variations of what already exists so this one is the scat pack while it doesn’t have a supercharger

It gets more displacement and starts at a fairly reasonable 40 grand us and 48 grand canadian that makes it 20 000 cheaper than its hellcat sibling although this one today makes a further dent in your wallet because it’s the wide body what does that mean well for a lot of us there’s a very familiar 3.5 inches of widened fender flares larger adaptive damping

Suspension brembo six piston brakes wider wheels and sticky pirelli tires which along with the help of a bunch more options brings this very kitten out example to 69 thousand dollars canadian a big number yes but the point is still sporting big american v8 power and upgraded sharper suspension this has all the potential in the world to be the sweet spot so is

It if you’re new to throttle house we do car reviews track tests and quite a lot of messing about so subscribe hit the bell we’ve driven hellcats we’ve driven the red eye we’ve driven the demon and they’re ridiculous they’re insane they spin their tires in fifth gear this is different this is the right amount of power for a challenger and that’s the sound of

A naturally aspirated 6.4 liter hemi v8 motor and relatively insulated in the cabin though it is outside it’s making an absolute roar and even though there’s no supercharger wine fitting the cabin don’t underestimate this because it still puts out 485 horsepower it’s got that low revving punch you in the back american v8 feel it doesn’t quite get old in the

Manual transmission he’s got these big long throws big meaty gears you feel like a viking swinging an axe come around the corner and boom third boom forth it gives you one more thing to interact with in a car that’s this physical the steering is heavy you have to pay attention it’s big and because this is a push rod hemi v8 torque is nice and high even though

It’s naturally aspirated the sacrifice there though is it’s not particularly high revving that said we just complained recently about how a certain porsche was too high revving and too long in the gears this is actually really fun around town because you get to row through the gears before you’re going ridiculous speeds and because it’s the wide body it should

Operate like a button-down sports car challenger but it doesn’t in fact it’s a it’s a bit of an idiot in the corners you kind of set it up turn it in and hang on for dear life and do your best to stay within the lines most of your concentration is going towards i can’t see there’s a big delay between when you give the car an input and when it reacts and even

Though i have it in track suspension setting right now it wallows all over the place but i don’t mind that because it adds to its character that’s what this thing it’s a challenger it’s supposed to be big and dumb because if i wanted an american v8 car that handled well i’d buy a camaro sorry challenger guys be okay with the fact that your car doesn’t handle

Well because that’s its charm like james doesn’t handle physical activity well it’s part of his charm even though i have it in the street suspension setting and it does have some of the wallow that thomas was talking about this is a weirdly comfortable car something with this much power i’m used to some level of sacrifice and that’s where the challenger crushes

The camera in the mustang i’m sorry to say because this is a really comfortable cruiser and we’re hitting bumps that we hit every time we test cars and this is taking them like a champ that said though so does the charger and i seem to remember that taking the corners a lot better a wide body or not you gotta be really careful in the corners because otherwise

You’re gonna experience that scat play replay rear end uh you could lose the back end put it this way i don’t really feel like i’m in a muscle car i feel like i’m in a truck in fact it kind of handles like a truck with or without the upgraded suspension that comes with the wide body the seating position is ridiculously high and i feel that the center of gravity

Is quite close to the moon so it’s got the noise it’s got the character but does it look the part this thing makes a hell of a racket a good racket though oh great one so what do you think i think visually this is peak challenger yeah this is like the best rendition of this car for me well they do all look very similar that’s true but but this has the wide

Body which obviously we’ll get to that in a second but the coolest part about that on the scat pack is that with the wide body you can get these devil’s rim alloys which are similar to the red eye i think they look fantastic yeah we’ve discovered with the the wide bodies really worth it because it’s an expensive package right 8 000 canadian dollars yes yes we

Discovered when we had the charger hellcat wide body in california yeah because that also had the devil’s rim job wheels as an option oh no dude it’s just the devil’s rim just what did i say we will we’ll just i think we don’t need to go over it again okay um and that was in a fun color that was in go mango orange yes oh also we drove one that was plum crazy

Plum crazy yeah this has a fantastic color name okay yes i was curious about it yeah yeah it’s called f8 green f8 as in like it’s like a is there a jet fighter that saved the war no no no it’s just that’s just the paint code well it looks great and you know what they’ve thrown enough fun names at this elsewhere we’ve got the street pack we’ve got the super bee

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah stuff so it’s worth it but so i’m curious a lot of the time you can tell what’s going on with the challenger from what’s going on on the hood oh yes and the

Demon had that giant has the giant scoop the demon has like the biggest hood scoop on a production car it’s this huge nostril i don’t know why i’m doing this it just feels right um and then the red eye yeah it has just two it’s split in the middle i think jason kamisa said it had a deviated septum it’s like a demon with a deviation that’s a small one it’s a clever

Dude yeah where is that guy he’s stuck in california anyway this is not either of those so it has these three things which are functional like the air comes in the air goes out right this releases pressure from the inside of the hood i think um oh oh it also has the little hole that goes in but it’s capped can you see that it’s cap yeah there might be a little

Space back in there yeah but these still shine orange so who cares oh the orange is such a good idea i don’t know why that looks so awesome it just does no i i think it’s fair to say that we’re we couldn’t be defined as muscle car guys no not even close even though we have the range for it as proved earlier um but this as a muscle car this kind of fits the bill

Perfectly does anything else match this no there isn’t though that’s what i mean this is your pony cars have gone really sporty yeah i was going to say like this would be the muscle car for me if i was going to get one but this is the only option although there are other versions of the challenger and i think i would definitely personally opt for the wide body

And these wheels and like a color like this i think it’s fantastic should we look at the interior yeah okay all right scout pack that’s the uh super b the super b you know you know what that means now he’s not wearing his cape uh and you’ve got 319 with a 392 there that’s really nice whoa careful you got to get these numbers right they’re very important well i

Just signed my own death warrant you did right 392 with the superb yeah beyond that this is very familiar this is very it’s very similar to all the other challenger charger products we’ve been in okay so this is a couple packages that are worth bringing up right because for 800 bucks you get this stitching in the carbon fiber which i think is worth it 800 800

Bucks it really brings up the interior yeah it really brings up the interior seats are comfortable ish have you noticed the weird yeah the the headrest is far back this is in its lowest yeah these are the least aggressive lumber sets these are 1500 bucks they are cooled and the cooled seats are super powerful actually um but the uh yeah there’s like the lumbar is

Weird i don’t know why i don’t need my head all the way back when i drive no but it’s like a safety thing you you don’t want this much distance kind of maybe you do if you rock out hard you need that you need the distance right but now i feel sick anyway manual transmission you don’t see that in these very often no that’s a thousand bucks for that extra extra yeah

This is a weird transmission because if you get in it for the first time it’s very uncomfortable it looks like it’s in first yes but when it’s not when it’s in neutral it is it is a it is a bit strange but once you kind of get used to the position of it it’s totally fine honestly the old challengers were like that these like sticks coming out right infotainment

Worth saying it’s really good yeah we’ve gone with this really really well it’s funny in the srt mode yeah yeah it says there’s not as many options as we used to see what we get is traction suspension obviously like there’s no transmission settings or power setting or power settings there’s no back key or red key with this no exactly you just have a black key it’s

Just a black key i’m gonna paint it red and then i’m gonna lie otherwise i don’t have any issues with this interior personally i think the alcantara on the headliner is part of that one package i mean also this steering wheel’s an upgrade right the flat bottom oh yeah the flat bottom yeah no it’s it’s fine right however despite the upgrade we still have blank

Switches yeah every single one of these is black stupid to remind you what you could have had yeah i don’t even know what goes do you remember i don’t even remember what’s supposed to be there no eject yes rule anyway this is a very spacious interior it’s for it’s for discerning soda enthusiasts there’s space yeah yeah your badonkadonk finally has found a home

Fine i am very comfortable all right should we conclude yes okay let’s get rid of this prehistoric parking brake and we go so we just tested the back seats as well and they are not very comfortable they’re difficult to get in and out of and my head aggressively touches the ceiling so i think that the charger is the better all-around package because despite the

Fact that it’s a four-door sedan i feel like it drives sharper has more practical back seats and yes in hellcat form it struggled to put the power down but now i’m realizing that a scat pack wide body charger could be the absolute sweet spot of the range i think i agree with james i think that the charger kind of makes more sense and i swear that it was sharper

Than this around the corners not that i am faulting this for being what it is it is a challenger it fits the bill perfectly i respect dodge for refusing to update this thing we make fun of them for it obviously but whenever they’re faced with a problem of what should we build next they just take one of the cars they already have and add more power put it this way

If they redesigned the dodge challenger and they made it a small light button-down camaro competitor i would be disappointed you’re gonna love this because it just makes no apologies and as it stands right now it is the last of the muscle cars the the b logo the super b oh really iconic b with a cape and it saves crimes no no no soups the super b logo really

Iconic what does it mean uh b where’s the game i think we have it you

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2020 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack WIDEBODY Review // The Sweet Spot By Throttle House