Stellantis Confirms The Charger SRT And Hemi Are Both Returning, But There’s A Catch
Stellantis just confirmed two things Charger fans have wanted for two years, and it still won’t connect them. A slide from the company’s May 21 Investor Day lists a Charger SRT as a planned model. In the same presentation, CEO Antonio Filosa told investors Stellantis will deliver ‘the return of the legendary HEMI V8’.
No Stellantis document connects those two statements. Nothing names the engine going into a Charger SRT. Nothing gives a year. Stellantis confirmed the SRT trim and confirmed the V8 independently, and left the gap between them wide open.
Why Stellantis Is Staying Quiet On The Pairing
The investor-day slide labeled ‘SRT Variant Planned’ lists the two-door Charger, four-door Charger, and Durango GLH. The word Hellcat appears nowhere next to the Charger in that material. SRT chief Tim Kuniskis was blunt about what the badge actually means to Stellantis: “It’s not ego. It’s not for fun. It’s not a hobby.” He said SRT models generate two to three times the net margin of the donor vehicle, and that roughly 50,000 SRT units across Dodge and Ram by 2030 carry the profit weight of 100,000 to 150,000 regular units.
To be clear, that’s a margin strategy, not a product confirmation. Filosa’s V8 line was framed around the company’s product plan through 2030 and tied to an easing U.S. emissions trajectory, with no vehicle named. A Charger SRT could be the home for that engine. It could just as easily be a Ram or Durango story that never touches the Charger nameplate at all.
What The Current Charger Lineup Tells Us
The 2027 Charger tops out at 600 horsepower in Super Bee trim, running the twin-turbo 3.0-liter Hurricane inline-six Dodge brands SIXPACK. The Scat Pack makes 550 hp from the same engine family. Dodge already sells a confirmed Hellcat application elsewhere in its lineup: the Durango SRT Hellcat, powered by the supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V8, rated at 710 horsepower. If that engine landed in a Charger at a similar number, it would sit well above anything Dodge currently offers in the sedan or coupe.
Dodge hasn’t said that’s the plan. A hotter SIXPACK tune fits the words ‘SRT Variant Planned’ just as well as a V8 does, and Dodge’s own marketing leans into that ambiguity: it touts the 2027 R/T as 50 hp stronger than the old 5.7-liter HEMI R/T it replaced, and the Scat Pack as 65 hp up on the old 6.4-liter Scat Pack. Dodge is currently selling the six-cylinder as the better engine, not a placeholder.
The Supplier Timeline Fills In Some Blanks
Not to get ahead of ourselves, but separate reporting points to production starting in late 2027 for a 2028-model-year Charger carrying the supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI, with suppliers told to prepare for roughly 12,000 units a year across two-door and four-door body styles. That’s tooling and sourcing activity, not a press release, and it’s the strongest circumstantial link between the SRT slide and the V8 promise. Dodge’s standard response to that reporting has been to call it speculation.
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