The SRT (Street and Racing Technology) performance division faded from the orbit of Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram in 2021—but it’s roaring back. Stellantis, now those brands’ parent company—along with Fiat, Maserati, and a bunch of French brands not sold here in America—has announced that SRT will be a company division yet again, un-dissolving and headed by longtime Chrysler executive Tim Kuniskis, who recently un-retired from Stellantis to run Ram, and was just named, in effect, the company’s North American brand czar, overseeing Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram (and, we figure, the North American arms of Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati). His actual title is Head of Stellantis American Brands and North America Marketing and Retail Strategy, though he also still is the CEO of the Ram brand, and now leads SRT, too.
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Stellantis revives the SRT division, led by Tim Kuniskis, to develop high-performance models. Iconic past SRT vehicles include the Viper, Neon SRT-4, and Challenger SRT Demon 170. Future hopes for SRT include a Ram 1500, Magnum SRT Banshee, and a new Viper.
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That’s a lot of jobs, but the SRT one is probably the most fun. This is the division that traces its roots to the original Viper sports car program in 1989 (it went through several ho-hum names and iterations before evolving into SRT in 2004), and whose name has adorned some of the most powerful, riotous vehicles to come out of the constellation of brands that fall under the Pentastar umbrella—or, you know, Chrysler, as most people know it. (Remember FCA, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles? Or even Stellantis today? We didn’t think so.) With SRT coming back, we’ve gathered up our favorite SRT-branded vehicles from throughout its history (including those that predated “SRT” the brand but were born from the engineering and design teams behind what would later become SRT):
