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It’s important to think of the 2006-’10 Dodge Charger as a successor to the front-wheel-drive Intrepid rather than a reincarnation of a storied nameplate. The connection to muscle cars of the 1960s is vague at best and tends to rile the purists more than anything. The car was built off the same rear-wheel-drive four-door sedan platform as the Chrysler 300 and now-retired Dodge Magnum wagon. The Charger’s 178-horsepower and 250-horsepower V6’s and optional 340-350-horsepower 5.7-liter “Hemi” V8 were augmented for the 2007 model year with a 6.1-liter 425-horsepower V8 that was part of the potent Street and Racing Technology (SRT8) model. All-wheel-drive also became optional that same year, but not for the SRT8. A budget-based Charger with a 178-horsepower V6 was to follow, as would an upgraded 5.7-litre V8 that delivered up to 372 horses. The Charger was basically unchanged prior to the significant 2011-model-year makeover.