Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat

Dodge launched the Challenger SRT Hellcat for the 2015 model year as the most powerful muscle car ever built by an American manufacturer at the time. The car shipped with a supercharged 6.2-litre Hemi V8 producing 707 hp (527 kW) and 650 lb-ft of torque, fed by a 2.4-litre IHI twin-screw blower running at up to 11.6 psi of boost. Both an eight-speed automatic and a six-speed manual were offered, and the car came with two key fobs — a black one limiting output to 500 hp and a red 'SRT' fob unlocking the full 707. LEGO® 77237 is modelled on this generation of Challenger (see Brickset for the LEGO® specifics).

Across the Hellcat's eight-year production run Dodge layered increasingly extreme variants on top: the 797-hp Redeye in 2018, the 808/840-hp Demon (a one-year-only drag-strip special), the wide-body Redeye Widebody, the 807-hp Super Stock, and finally the 1,025-hp Demon 170 in 2023. The Challenger and the related Charger were the last full-size two-door / four-door pair built on Stellantis' LX platform, a design that traced back to 2005 — making the Hellcat-era cars some of the longest-served body shells in modern muscle-car history.

When Dodge ended Challenger production in December 2023, it shipped seven 'Last Call' special editions and confirmed that the next-generation Charger Daytona would be electric (with a 'Sixpack' inline-six gas variant following). 77237's 2025 release date sits squarely in the immediate aftermath of that transition, which gives the set its purpose: it is LEGO®'s first acknowledgement of the Dodge muscle-car canon, arriving exactly as the gas Hellcat became history.