Video of the Week: Relive the Dodge Last Call

by Tim Healey

Published: March 22nd, 2023

video of the week relive the dodge last call

Today's video of the week is an easy one.

If you missed the livestream of Dodge's Last Call, or want to see it again, here you go.

You'll see Tim Kuniskis's speech, the Dodge Demon 170 running the track, and my ugly mug as I took some of the photos you saw on this very site. All that, and more.

Click here to see the festivities and to send the muscle car off into the EV future in proper fashion.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Kwik_Shift_Pro4X on Mar 22, 2023

How much is Dodge paying for this?

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- Tim Healey on Mar 22, 2023
  
  Zero. It's simply the biggest news of the week.
  
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- Kwik_Shift_Pro4X on Mar 22, 2023
  
  That's debatable.
  
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CoastieLenn on Mar 22, 2023

So the Camaro is getting the axe, the Challenger is belly up, the Charger is also fading out of existence. Maaaaan Michigan better have a game plan on how to inject some soul back into the American carscape. The Mustang and Corvette can't do it on their own. Dark times we're living in, bro's. How long do you think it'll be before the US starts to backpedal on our EV mandates now that the EU has rolled back their ICE bans with synthetic fuel usage?

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- 28-Cars-Later on Mar 22, 2023
  
  Brandon is pretty cognitively challenged, I'd expect the march to the abyss to continue until the junta is replaced.
  
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- Luke42 on Mar 22, 2023
  
  Tesla makes the American Muscle Car these days.
  Electric acceleration really shoves you into your seat and holds you there.
  The old-school muscle cars just got beat fair and square by the nerd-herd, and they need to hit the books and learn the new EV tech stack to catch up.
  
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- CoastieLenn on Mar 22, 2023
  
  @Luke- I’ve driven Tesla 3, S (no Plaid), and Taycan. While I can say that without a doubt that they’re fast, there’s just something missing that you’ll never get from an EV. The steering lacks any feedback whatsoever, the lack of engine sound makes the sense of speed be dulled. EV’s lack soul. They lack character. I drove an S P100D and a Taycan Turbo S in the same day- within 2 hours of each other, and other than some minor nuances, if I were blindfolded, I wouldn’t be able to tell them apart. There’s just nothing there! The driving enthusiast- the PROPER driving enthusiast, is losing everything with the switch to EV. I expected more visceral feelings from the Taycan, being a Porsche. I absolutely loved it but I was also equally let down. I actually feel that my old 1995 Eagle Talon TSi was more fun to drive if I wasn’t going straight.
  
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- Luke42 on Mar 22, 2023
  
  If taking away the noisiness, smelliness, and slowness of an ICE car makes a car soulless, souls are overrated!
  My EV is the first car I've genuinely liked without any asterisks.
  
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Jeff S on Mar 22, 2023

Unless muscle cars and pony like cars come back in popularity they will continue to disappear. Seems like some commenters are still not aware that pickups, suvs, and crossovers are what is selling. Manufacturers are going to make what sells regardless of who is the President. It is strictly business.

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- Luke42 on Mar 22, 2023
  
  The Mach-E became a Mustang because Ford was going to build an electric crossover.
  
  But the question was which is wore for the Mustang brand: getting beat on the track by a CUV, or becoming the Mustang CUV. Ford chose the second choice.
  
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ToolGuy on Mar 22, 2023

38:25 to 45:40 -- Let's all wait around for the stupid ugly helicopter. 😉
The wheels and tires are cool, as in a) carbon fiber is a structural element not decoration and b) they have some sidewall.
Also like the automatic fuel adjustment (gasoline vs. ethanol).
(Anyone know why it's more powerful on E85? Huh? Huh?)

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- MrIcky on Mar 23, 2023
  
  Trick question? e85 runs over 100 octane so you can advance the ignition more.
  
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