Dodge Charger R/T (1999 concept)

The Dodge Charger R/T was a functional concept car built by Chrysler in 1999. Its styling revived the long nose, rearward cabin, coke-bottle waist and flying rear buttresses of the 1966 Dodge Charger, but it had four doors, a response to the declining market for sport coupes. Tom Gale supervised the exterior design and Trevor Creed the interior. It was shorter and lighter than the 1966 car, at 187 inches and about 3,000 pounds, and it ran on compressed natural gas stored in a fibreglass tank of wrapped composite cylinders that gave a claimed range of 300 miles. A 4.7 litre V8 rated at 325 horsepower drove the rear wheels through a five-speed manual gearbox, making it the first rear-wheel-drive car on the Chrysler LH platform. After the Daimler Chrysler merger it was not put into production.