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Tyler Robinson's Car — The 2013 Dodge Challenger

Tyler Robinson owned a grey 2013 Dodge Challenger. It is often mis-called a "Charger" online; the Charger is Dodge's four-door sedan, and every court record calls his car a Challenger, the two-door coupe. This page sets out what the state has put on the record about that car, and why it matters so much.

The state's case runs through one car

The charging affidavit says investigators "identified Robinson arriving on UVU campus in a grey Dodge Challenger at approximately 08:29" on September 10, 2025. That sentence is how the state ties the man on the campus cameras to Tyler Robinson. Citizen investigators now say the Challenger on the UVU parking-garage video is a different car — its exhaust tips do not match his. If they are right, the government told the court and the public that a car was his when it was not. See The Garage Car Was Not His — The Exhaust Tips.

Reference photo of a stock Dodge Challenger exhaust tip: a single rectangular chrome surround with one round pipe inside, the stock vacuum-style tip.Rear of a light grey Dodge Challenger in a parking structure showing two side-by-side rectangular custom exhaust tips.

Left: the stock "vacuum style" Challenger exhaust tip, the style @DiligentDenizen says was still on Tyler Robinson's car when it was impounded (a reference picture of the tip style, not a photo of his car). Right: the rectangular custom quad tips on the Challenger in the UVU parking garage on 9/10/25. Source: @DiligentDenizen on X, September 24, 2026.

What the record says about the car​

  • Make and year. A 2013 Dodge Challenger, grey. Sworn in the charging probable cause affidavit (September 12 and 16, 2025).
  • Plate and VIN. Search warrant 3214771 (September 14, 2025) lists Utah plate T455CE, VIN 2C3CDYAG0DH675106. PDF.
  • A second plate number. The earlier warrant, 3213501 (September 12, 2025, Washington County, St. George), describes "a 2013 Dodge Challenger with a Utah License Plate T44CE." PDF. The later warrant says outright that it covers the same car as 3213501 and was re-filed "for clarifying and relevancy purposes." It does not say what was being clarified.
  • Two different towns. Warrant 3213501 places the car in St. George. Warrant 3214771, two days later, places it in Orem.
  • Where it was collected. Crime-scene Sergeant Jennifer Faumuina testified at the preliminary hearing (Day 4, July 9, 2026, transcript page 122) that the car "was collected at the Robinsons' parents' home" and that it "is a gray colored Dodge Challenger."
  • The family statement. The affidavit says a family member "confirmed Robinson had a grey Dodge Challenger." That confirms he owned such a car. It does not show that the car on the campus video was that car.
  • The engine. Under standard Chrysler VIN decoding, the eighth character G is the 3.6-litre V6 used in the SXT trim, the base model. The citizen claim on the next page is that the garage car wears custom quad exhaust tips, which a stock SXT does not have.

What the car should be able to prove, and has not​

The state asked for everything this car could tell it and has not shown any of it:

  1. The infotainment and telematics download. Warrant 3214771 expressly sought "the Infotainment/Telematic Systems and related digital storage media." That data would show where the car was on September 10. No extraction has been produced in public. (Aircraft and ground vehicles)
  2. The VANTRUE dash camera. Warrant 3215391 seized a dash camera and memory card from the car. A dash camera records the road it drives. Its footage of the morning of September 10 would show whether this car went to UVU at all.
  3. Photographs of the car as impounded. Both warrants authorize photographs of the exterior. A single rear photo of the impounded car settles the exhaust-tip question.

Any one of those three would confirm or destroy the 8:29 a.m. identification. None has been made public, a year after the arrest.

Under oath: how the state matched the garage car to him​

Two-panel comparison with red circles on the exhaust. Top: Tyler Robinson's Challenger on a tow truck at impound, one tip at each rear corner. Bottom: the Challenger in the UVU parking garage, two tips side by side under one corner.

Top: his Challenger at impound, dual exhaust. Bottom: the UVU parking-garage Challenger, 9/10/25, two tips together. Source: @DiligentDenizen on X, September 24, 2026.

SBI Agent David Hull told the court how the car was tied to Robinson.

Day 1: the tip file included "a DMV record with an associated vehicle." Asked the make and model: "The Dodge Challenger." Then: "It was silver in color, and I believe there were two registered owners of the vehicle... Mr. Robinson and then his mother." The affidavit calls the car grey.

Day 2: over the garage video, "That's the vehicle that is believed to belong to Mr. Robinson arriving in the parking garage on campus." Asked why: "the vehicle fits the description of a vehicle owned by Mr. Robinson," and "predominantly the wheels were very distinctive."

So the match presented to the court is a DMV description, a body shape and a set of wheels. No plate and no VIN were read off the garage footage. According to @DiligentDenizen: "UNDER OATH, a Utah SBI officer told you these were both the same vehicle 👀 It is clearly NOT THE SAME vehicle. Tyler Robinson's car has had the same dual (not quad) exhaust since his family helped purchase it years ago. They degraded video quality in courtroom evidence to lie." The side-by-side is on The Garage Car Was Not His. Agent Hull is a living person; nothing here says he knowingly testified falsely. It says the identification appears to be wrong.

Video: his car on the tow truck vs the garage car​

Tyler Robinson's Challenger on the tow truck (top) vs the UVU P1 parking-garage Challenger (bottom), with Candace Owens saying she was told his car has dual exhaust, two tips total. 41 seconds. Source: @FaithDrivUr on X, September 24, 2026.

This 41-second split screen from @FaithDrivUr ("DUAL EXHAUST or QUAD EXHAUST—THAT is the QUESTION.") runs the impound footage of this Challenger above the UVU parking-garage camera. In it, Candace Owens says: "I also then made some phone calls and I am told that Tyler Robinson. Yes, that they are dual exhaust, 2 total." The full breakdown and her whole quote are on The Garage Car Was Not His.

Why this matters​

The prosecution's account is a single-actor, single-car case (warrant gap analysis). The Challenger arrives on campus at 8:29, the man on the cameras walks from it, and the Challenger drives him south afterwards on the 25-hour driving timeline. If the car on the garage video is not his car, the link between the campus footage and Tyler Robinson rests on nothing but the confession — the confession investigators say was faked.

Several grey Challengers appear in reporting about that week — on campus, on West 925 South at 00:30, and near the alleged staging house. They are kept apart on the neighborhood reports page. Robinson is charged, not convicted, and presumed innocent.

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