Suppy's Garage Took the All-Wheel Drive Out of a Charger. Bronze Them.
Dodge's answer to a customer who wants rear-wheel drive is a button. The builders of two Hemmings drift Chargers took out the hardware under it, and the 750 horsepower Dodge now claims is a figure its own release calls a conservative estimate.
Dodge sells the Charger Scat Pack with standard all-wheel drive and a button. Push it and the torque goes to the rear wheels. That is Dodge's answer to a man who wants rear-wheel drive. A setting. A decision made by people who have never met you.
Then two of those cars went to Suppy Wejpanich and his crew at Suppy's Garage, and the first thing those men did was take the hardware out from under the button. Not the mode. The hardware. Those are the last honest mechanics in America.
Give Dodge the engine. The production Charger Scat Pack makes 550 horsepower from Dodge's high-output twin-turbo straight six. The drift cars are claimed at 750 horsepower, and Dodge printed "conservative estimate" in its own parenthesis beside the number. Nobody has shown me a sheet, and I doubt anybody has shown Dodge one. A bottom end that takes that is a good bottom end.
Somewhere a committee decided a setting was an acceptable substitute for a driveshaft. That shop took the all-wheel drive out, threw the automatic away and put a cage where the interior was. A clutch pedal and a stick sit where a mode used to be, and the drive reaches the rear axle by metal instead of by menu. A button is somebody else's opinion about your rear axle.
Rick buys project cars and shows up with a trailer. Three cars sit in my garage and none of them runs. The F-100 has been one weekend away for eleven years. Those men made a production all-wheel-drive automatic into a rear-wheel-drive manual in 60 days. Rick has my address.
Bronze. Life size. The men who took the all-wheel drive out, cast standing, with the hardware they took out of it standing on end between them. The country owes them that, and the country is in arrears.
The VerdictStellantis Media announced on Aug. 7, 2026, from Auburn Hills, Mich., that Dodge, with Hemmings Director of Programming Mike Musto and builder/fabricator Suppy Wejpanich of Suppy's Garage, debuted two 750-horsepower (conservative estimate) professional-spec Charger Scat Pack drift machines at the Aug. 7 Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge press reveal, where professional drifters Corey 'The Boss' Hosford and Micah Diaz slid them around M1 Concourse. Nobody from this masthead was there, and 'conservative estimate' is Dodge's own parenthesis around its own number. No dyno sheet is published and nobody here has measured anything. The two cars are the two-door Charger BOOST Coupe and the four-door Charger RPM (Rapid People Mover), developed and built in 60 days from production SIXPACK-powered 2026 Charger Scat Packs. Beyond the SIXPACK engine internals, the Charger body panels and the windshield, the team modified or custom-fabricated nearly every component. Both run manual transmissions. The team engineered custom bellhousings, modified the driveline and converted the production all-wheel-drive, automatic-transmission configuration into a dedicated rear-wheel-drive, manual-transmission drift package, with a custom three-pedal clutch system, a one-off hydraulic handbrake assembly and a drift-spec master cylinder. The release does not say what tools were used, and this magazine does not report a tool it cannot source. The two cars do not share a forced-induction configuration and no component or figure crosses between them: on the BOOST Coupe the factory twin-turbo system was converted by Turbosmart to a high-output single-turbo configuration, while the RPM runs a highly modified Turbosmart twin-turbo system. Both run on C16 race fuel. Also fitted: MoTeC engine management with integrated displays, rear-mounted cooling packages, CAD-designed fuel cells, drift-specific suspension, extreme steering geometry, heavy-duty driveshafts, competition axles and hubs, a Bulldog quick-change rear differential, a full competition roll cage, FIA-style containment seats and multi-point harnesses after the production interior was completely removed, American Racing wheels on X-Comp HP tires, a one-off vented hood, widened fenders, a hand-fabricated rear wing, custom taillights and a dual-mode exhaust that vents tire smoke through hood-mounted blow-off valves. Neither car is offered for sale. No build cost is stated, nothing here is orderable, no factory drift package has been announced and this magazine makes no value claim of any kind. Gridlife at Laguna Seca on Sept. 18-20 and FuelFest at Firebird Motorsports Park in Arizona on Dec. 5 are dates on a calendar and not results; there is no competition, no field, no entry and no time set by anybody in this document, and nothing here is a race report. Separately, and belonging to the production car alone: the SIXPACK H.O.-powered Charger Scat Pack a reader can buy produces 550 horsepower and 531 lb.-ft. of torque, reaching 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds and the quarter-mile in 12.2 seconds, from a high-output twin-turbo inline-six, with standard all-wheel drive and a selectable on-demand RWD Mode allowing drivers to send 100% of torque to the rear wheels at the push of a button. Those figures attach to the showroom car and to neither build. Matt McAlear, Dodge CEO, is quoted saying the two drift cars put the platform's strength, flexibility and performance capability 'on full display'; that is his phrase and this magazine does not adopt it. Musto, an on-screen host and automotive journalist, is quoted describing how the idea took shape during a Dodge media drive through Death Valley, which is a media drive nobody from this masthead was on and is reported here as nothing more than what the release says it is. Nobody at this desk has seen, sat in, ridden in or driven either car.
Editorial disclosure: Dodge mailed Drive Observer the RWD Mode switch out of a production Charger Scat Pack, loose in a padded envelope, wired to nothing, under a typed card carrying the part number and no other words. It has been in the mail tray since Friday and nobody has thrown it away. Per our strict ethical policy, we do not let this influence our coverage.
