The new Dodge Charger Daytona EV is already a statement. This one arrived in factory paint and left in something the owner designed from scratch: a full color change in 3M 2080 Matte Indigo, a gloss black hood, and a custom red pinstripe running the length of the car. Three elements, one coherent build.
The Color: 3M 2080 Matte Indigo
Matte Indigo is a deep blue-indigo that reads differently in sunlight than it does in shade, which is what good matte film does. Under direct sun the tone has warmth to it. In shadow it pulls toward a darker, cooler blue. On the Daytona body, those shifts track the character lines and make the fastback profile read with more depth than the factory finish.
3M 2080 is a cast film, which matters on a car with the Daytona’s compound curves. Calendered film fights curves and panels under heat; cast film conforms. The wrap covers the full exterior body, with the hood handled separately as its own design element.
The Hood: Gloss Black
The hood is wrapped in gloss black, creating a direct contrast against the matte body. Gloss and matte next to each other only work when the color choices are intentional, and here they are. The black hood frames the red stripe where it crosses the front fascia and reinforces the overall color story without competing with it. It also reads naturally on the Daytona platform, where the aggressive front end already invites a two-tone treatment.
The Stripe: Custom Red Pinstripe
A thin gloss red stripe runs from the front of the car, across the leading edge of the hood, and continues along the upper body character line to the rear. This is not a wide graphic. It is a line, and that restraint is what makes it work. On a car with this much visual weight already, the stripe serves as a definition element rather than a decoration. It tells the eye where the design transitions and ties the gloss black hood to the matte body below.
Stripe placement on the Charger Daytona required mapping to the new platform. The Daytona body does not share character line geometry with the previous-generation Charger, so positioning had to be worked out panel by panel to ensure the line ran clean from nose to tail.
Installing on a New Platform
Every installer encounters the Charger Daytona cold. It is a new body with no accumulated institutional knowledge behind it, which means panel pulls, curves, and tight areas all have to be mapped fresh on every job. As a 3M Preferred Installer, we work from technique rather than memorized shortcuts. That is the only reliable approach on a platform this new, and it is worth asking about when you are shopping wrap shops for a Daytona.
If you want to see what the Charger platform looks like in a different direction, we also did a custom partial wrap on a Charger Scat Pack with an in-house carbon fiber hood design. Two generations, two different approaches, same standard of work.
Why AZRagIPS
AZRagIPS is a 3M Preferred Installer based in Knoxville, Tennessee, serving clients across the Southeast. Color change wraps are one of our core services, from single-color jobs to multi-material builds like this one. Design, fabrication, and installation all happen in-house. We do not hand off design to a third party and then install what comes back. That matters when the stripe has to line up and the film has to conform to panels we are seeing for the first time.
Get a Quote on Your Charger
If you are ready to talk through a color change wrap or custom design on your Dodge Charger Daytona EV, start with a free quote at AZRagIPS. We have worked the platform and can give you a real answer on material, timeline, and cost.
