S650 Ford Mustang Rival Dodge Charger Daytona Cannot Do Burnouts

While the Ford Mustang continues to live on after the seventh-generation S650 model debuted for the 2024 model year, the pony car has watched as its competition has, well, largely disappeared. The Chevy Camaro is no longer being produced, and the Dodge Charger/Challenger have been replaced by the EV-only (for now, at least) Dodge Charger Daytona, which just landed in the hands of reviewers this month. Thus far, the Dodge Challenger Daytona hasn’t exactly received the best early reviews, but as it turns out, the new model is also incapable of doing something that muscle car fans have long been fans of – burnouts.

According to InsideEVs, those reviewing the Dodge Charger Daytona recently were unable to get the car to do a burnout, no matter what they tried. Even with a pair of electric motors churning out a healthy 670 horsepower and 627 pound-feet of torque through four wheels (all-wheel drive is standard), the Dodge Charger Daytona simply refused to light up a tire, regardless – something that’s going to come as a massive disappointment to enthusiasts with dreams of ripping off big, smoky burnouts in their new EV “muscle car,” we imagine.

The problem is, while the Dodge Charger Daytona was originally slated to get a line lock feature – which would cut power from the front electric motor and apply the brakes up front so that the rear tires could be lit up – that isn’t the case, and apparently, Stellantis is being a bit coy on whether or not it ever will be available. Strangely, the Charger Daytona does have a drift mode that decouples the front electric motor, which makes this oversight even more puzzling.

Along with this disappointing news and some pretty rough early reviews of the Dodge Charger Daytona, perhaps it comes as no surprise that Stellantis recently announced that it would be fast-tracking the arrival of ICE versions of the Charger, though they’ll be powered by the twin-turbocharged I-6 Hurricane engine – not a V8, like certain versions of the Mustang. Adding insult to injury, the Charger EV is quite a bit pricier than the pony car, too.