By the way, this is something you will become quite familiar with as an owner of a V8 Challenger. I think they look kind of cool and they go perfectly with this car! More nice detail here with the gas cap. At first I thought these bright yellow diffuser corner protectors was Hertz’s way of saying “you drive like shit and we don’t trust you”, but I’ve seen these on a lot of civilian Dodge Challengers out in the wild as well. So cool that I’m tempted to rip the 5.0 badges off my Mustang and slap these on instead. DriveAndReview is a family friendly blog after all! So much cool detail in the grill of this car. And I guess this would be the spread eagle…uh…ok, enough with the porn jokes. If car porn was a thing, this would be the money shot. It looks even better out in the sunshine against that rugged brown Arizona landscape. I guess in the car world “Scat” is a good thing, but in the real world… At least they were nice enough to park at front and center up here so I didn’t have to go wandering out into the parking garage to find it for myself. Behold the 2018 Dodge Challenger R/T with the unfortunate sounding Scat Pack option. Yeah, it seemed huge standing right there next to it, but I will admit that I thought it was beautifully designed and very sinister looking – just the way a probably muscle car should be. Once through the doors and standing next to this huge beast of a muscle car, I was actually getting pretty excited about driving it – even though this was a car I had never been interested in much over the years. They tend to be a little bit more friendly when you have status, and I was feeling pretty important even though I hadn’t even reached the car yet. I guess that’s one of the perks of my American Express Platinum Card and the complementary Hertz Gold membership that comes along with it.
2018 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack first impressionsĪs I stood there on the escalator heading down into the parking garage to pick up the car, I saw it there through the windows, ready and waiting for me. What in the hell were they thinking when they came up with that name? Yes, I fully understand and appreciate the history of this car, but still – even back in the 1970s it had to have sounded a little bit weird and I wouldn’t be surprised if the marketing team did it as a joke (just to see if they can get away with it) and still snicker about it to this day.
So yeah – I have Hertz to think for putting me behind the wheel of this 2018 Dodge Challenger R/T with the horrific sounding “Scat Pack” option. But instead of airlines, there are rental car companies. It even looks like an airport on the inside. Airport or rental car center? It’s actually a little bit of both, as this is the massive rental car facility at phoenix international airport. This isn’t a complaint though – as I said, it’s my favorite rental car for facility anywhere, so as long as it stays quiet and easy to use I’m going to be a happy customer. Seriously, every time I come here the place feels like a ghost town and I never have to wait in line very long to pick up a car. It’s one of the best rental car centers in United States in my humble opinion, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why they felt the need to build it as big as an entire airport. This review begins by walking into the massive rental car center at the Phoenix International Airport (PHX). Arriving at the PHX rental car center to pick up this car
Flights are usually the most expensive part about trips, but since I saved a ton of money there it was OK to splurge a little bit on this Challenger. Crazy as it sounds, I flew to Phoenix specifically to drive this car – but only because I found an insanely good deal on airfare on. From a distance, it just seemed far too big and bulky for me and to be honest I didn’t even like styling that much.īut that all changed on a beautiful crisp and cool February day in Phoenix Arizona. You should know by now that I am a Mustang guy (I’ve owned three of them so far – a 1996 GT, a 1997 GT, and a 2012 GT), and the third generation Challenger has never been a car that I’ve been interested in. Sometimes it just takes trying something to realize that it’s not as bad as you thought it was, and that’s what exactly happened during my day with this 2018 Dodge Challenger R/T.
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