Undoubtedly, Dodge has been an astute automaker to offer cutting-edge technology and comfort without disrupting the spirit of the once-forgotten off-roader. The automotive brand has always been kept its topmost priority for cabin design and comfort. Cutting-edge technology, comfortable seating, and spacious cabin room can bring a hot rod from lackluster to luxurious.
The Dodge Challenger’s interior offers lavishness and a natural feel of leather for its seats with trim and steering wheels. But, the muscle car does have tough competitors in terms of overall interior space. However, the Challenger Hellcat dominates in terms of spacious room, followed by Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 with a slightly less spacious cabin than the Challenger Hellcat, and the third position is taken by Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.
The Challenger Hellcat’s High-Performance Seats
The inner beauty of the 2021 Dodge Challenger Hellcat can be experienced by its performance-inspired seats. The luxury provides sumptuous leather seats designed to suit your body contour. Once you try them, you will never go back, that's the absolute truth about the comfortable seating of the Challenger Hellcat. The front seats of the Hellcat feature an iconic Scat Pack Bee logo and the SRT Hellcat logo embellished on it. The Challenger Hellcat comes with a multiplicity of leather color choices, which are Black, Sepia, and Demonic Red. Other selections are black Nappa Leather, carbon & suede interior package and Laguna leather seats. Although the optionally available Laguna leather package adds a premium stitched dashboard and door panels, the said package also fetches a substantial $5,185 extra. Carbon fiber and suede headliner are the two features you get if you select the Carbon and Suede Interior Package. The speedster offers dual seating mode, providing ventilated front seats which keep you cool, and heated front seats that offer a warm drive as well.
Challenger Hellcat Trunk and Cargo Space
The Challenger is gifted with best-in-class cargo space compared to the majority of its rivals. All the credit goes to its capacious 16.2 cu ft of trunk space to allow you to easily accommodate the weekly shopping. The cabin also offers easy storage of small items in the huge center console compartment. On the other hand, the muscle car has smaller door pockets than its rival cars. Music lovers will admire Hellcat’s Alpine sound system, which has been placed under the trunk, where the spare wheel is purported to be.
Premium Interior Features - Ruggedness Meets Comfort & Technology
The Challenger Hellcat is well-furnished with premium features along with state-of-the-art technology. It starts with a high tech 7-inch reconfigurable digital display between the speedometer and revolution counter, twin-zone automatic climate control (including ventilation outlets at the back), illuminated front cup holders, a heated steering wheel, a universal garage-door opener, a six-way power-adjustable driver's seat with heated front seats and manual tilt/telescoping-adjustable steering column. Elective features, such as rain-sensing windshield wipers, power sunroof, ventilated front seats, few driver assisting features like blind-spot monitoring and rear cross-path detection enrich the real comfort and lavishness of the 2021 Challenger Hellcat.
You can observe varieties of steering wheel designs for different Challenger trims. The speedster offers steady control with its four available steering wheels option —Sport, Performance, Wild Wheel, and SRT. In addition to that, Challenger’s gear selector lever is inspired by the fighter jet lever, which brings out an additional feel of sportiness. From a safety perspective, the Challenger Hellcat features tire pressure monitoring, a rear-view camera, hill-start assistance, and a park-sense rear parking assist system.
Dodge has made huge efforts to offer the best Infotainment features in the Challenger Hellcat, and they have achieved their aim. The system consists of the SiriusXM radio, an audio input jack, CD/DVD/MP3 compatibility, a 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and dual USB ports. You can choose a navigation feature as optional. The system contains six Alpine speakers through which the audio is channeled.
The Final Call
From the steering wheel to the door trims and the center console, Dodge’s innovative best-in-class interior has enabled the automotive industry to design the materials of the future and the 2021 Dodge Challenger Hellcat is the finest example of it. It received an overall J.D. power rating of 85 out of 100, with a quality and reliability rating of 87/100, which is pretty much the same as last year. Apparently, this muscle car will never let you move around without a glimpse of its interior beauty. This isn’t surprising that the 2021 Dodge Challenger Hellcat has the most versatile interior layout of all the muscle cars.