Dodge will roughly double the number of Charger and Challenger Hellcat models it makes next year and will significantly change the way dealers can order the 707-horsepower model in the future, the company announced Monday. Dodge also announced that it would be cancelling nearly 900 unfulfilled 2015 orders and honoring those prices for 2016.
Dealers will begin taking new orders for the super-performance cars sometime around Aug. 10 and will only be allowed to order their specific allocation. According to Automotive News, reports surfaced last year of Dodge dealers accepting deposits for many more Challenger and Charger Hellcat models than they were allotted.
Dealers will begin receiving Hellcats in September through February.
Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis told Automotive News that customers learning Monday that their order has been cancelled "is probably not what they want to hear, but we're going to do it so that we have a fresh, clean slate going forward with everything that we learned in 2015." Dodge said they'll begin today calling customers who won't receive 2015 models.
Initially, Dodge anticipated building 1,200 Hellcat-powered models last year. Initial orders topped 4,000 and eventually reached 5,000.
Dealers who don't sell their allotment of Challenger or Charger Hellcat models right away — if they've raised the price far beyond the MSRP, for example — may have future allotments of the model restricted, the automaker said.
Dodge has not yet announced pricing for the 2016 Charger and Challenger Hellcat models.
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