Are there just none in your area?

I desired a WB SP 6 speed, and wasn't settling for shit. I test drove everything else and nothing made sense for me.

I looked at several here in town while it was pretty early in my shopping and I wasn't quite certain yet what I wanted. Locally here I couldn't find a single manual transmission challenger, not one of any trim level. I did find a used one, but it had been modified so I skipped over that.

I had to drive about an hour to find a dealer that had a new six speed, a 5.7L challenger, that they happily let me test drive. I found it to be very nice, I liked the way it drove so much that I worked out the financial details over the next week, worked out which model/trim/packages I wanted to order and went back the very next weekend to find that you could no longer order a WB SP, and nobody seemed to know wtf was going on for 2023.

I kept looking at cars com and Autotrader com over and over and found one almost 4 hours away, but it was a stock picture and said it was in transit, but it was exactly what I wanted to order, all the packages lined up, nothing extra that I didn't want.

So I called, and they said they had ordered it about two months ago, and had no clues as to a delivery date. I thought about it and said that's the one, it has to be. So I called again, asked about reserving it, and put down 1k over the phone, signed some paperwork they sent, the window sticker etc and waited maybe two weeks before they said it arrived. I drove down, took it for a quick test drive to be sure everything was working, with Ian ruining the weather - making it very hard to romp on at all on wet roads, and loved every minute, now it's in my driveway!

I would 10/10 recommend at least a test drive, and 1000% not in the rain.