We’re Pretty Sure Mopar Just Revealed A New Dodge Charger V8

There’s a Dodge Charger being revealed at this year’s SEMA show that may change everything about the model.

The Charger is on sale now in electric and turbocharged-six-cylinder versions, but Dodge has yet to confirm a new V8-powered model.

That may have just changed with the release of a teaser image from Mopar ahead of the performance parts event.

The Mopar parts division is bringing a concept Charger to the show and the sketch depicts the purple car in a stylized fashion, but there’s one distinct feature that stands out. The hood has double humps with a valley in between them, unlike the six-cylinder Charger’s single hump.

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The double-hump design is typically used to on a car to suggest that it has a powerful V8 engine under the hood, with the humps indicating the location of its dual banks of cylinder heads.

Mopar has provided no additional information, so this is just speculation, but teaser images usually include hidden messages and this is the only one that sticks out in this one.

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Now, that’s not to say Mopar and Dodge will be announcing that there’s a production Charger with a V8 coming, but it could be a custom build with one of Mopar’s crate engines in it. The sort of thing it will be showcasing in Las Vegas.

Regardless of what Dodge offers from the factory, the new internal combustion engine Charger will almost certainly be used for drag racing, and a lot of builders will want to swap the straight-six for a V8, so Mopar will surely accommodate them with parts to help do that.

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We’ll no more when the car debuts at the industry-only show, which runs Nov. 4-7 this year.