Starting price is now $58,000.
They ditched selling the accessible models for the luxury market and they do the most cheap and trashy thing possible.
It's incredible how stupid millionaire CEOs can be.
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It does appear... pretty bootleg.
Starting price on a new Dodge Charger is $61,590, get on that inflation train, boss!
Pretty much everyone asked for this with their actions and choices as consumers. Lucky us, we can still choose not to buy a Dodge Charger or a Swasticar.
It’s def gonna spread tho. This is just one model one make. For now. In 2, 5, 10 years? CP77 without any of the fun shit.
Unless everybody now says “I’ll never buy anything from dodge”. If it doesn’t impact sales it really will become the new norm.
You'd really need to boycott anything made by the Stellantis group, which includes
- Abarth
- Alfa Romeo
- Chrysler
- Citroen
- Dodge
- DS
- Fiat
- Jeep
- Lancia
- Maserati
- Opel
- Peugot
- RAM Trucks
- Vauxhall
Because the exact same thing was reported by Jeep drivers a few weeks ago. Maybe the behavior stays contained to just the American brands under the Stellantis umbrella, but better to be safe than sorry.
Lancia
Sad to see that name here, but they're nothing like they were in the Group B days. At least my ultimate dream car will never have ads, even if I'll never be able to afford the car itself 🥲
This
Brand new 2024 vehicle: I disabled all connectivity. No software updates, no remote start through their app, nothing; it will never connect to the internet. These greedy car and ad companies have lost the benefit of the doubt. Literally no amount of money will ever be enough for these giant corporations...
This is why I'd rather rebuild my 30 year old civic's engine then buy a new car.
Did you know John Deere tractors have a dedicated piracy scene? Because the tractors require authorized technicians to service them and doesn't allow farmers to service them themselves, spoofed firmware has appeared and is fairly frequently used to bypass this.
My point is, if you can jailbreak a tractor you can jailbreak a car. Just a matter of time.
Hell yes I do.
When that old antipiracy ad was like "you wouldn't download a car," turns out they were vastly overestimating your average American tractor owner or car driver's respect for the corporate arcology.
Before starting the engine please watch this 30 second unskippable ad
Exactly why I wont buy any vehicle with any sort of network connection outside of the CANbus.
If this happened to me and assuming I had physical knobs/buttons for AC, etc, and those wouldn’t be affected, I would take a hammer to it, mount an iPad Mini or something for GPS, and just listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks on my phone via a Bluetooth speaker.
I already have bad road rage (I’m not proud of this & am actively working on it) and this would send me over the edge.
Good on you for working on yourself.
I can only respect that. Dodge ought to be afraid of you.
Probably for bail bondsmen
They just did this with jeeps last month. Said it 2as an error
"OH no, we accidentally deployed ads to your car using a system that took months to develop, how could that have ever happened"
Error my ass. "Market research" was the word they wanted.
2026 will be the year of the Linux car
Aptera, what I'm waiting for. They claim they will have all parts available online for easy repairs, and IMO it's just a really cool car concept.
Mmmm, delicious unbridled capitalism.
Why's it taste like Red 40 and a non-zero amount of rat hair?
I never thought I would say this, but thank god there are a bunch of car hobbiest in my area.
If this type of invasive shit becomes mainstream, I at least know that the auto community around me will be able to fix anything that gets put into my travel device.
nobody deserves it more than dodge charger owners
They're just testing to see what people are willing to accept.
Every time you see a useful idiot saying "it's not that bad" or "they're a business and they need to make money", you know who to blame for why things are they way they are.
Tfw your car is trying to reach you about its own extended warranty
Stuck in traffic......introducing, the all new 2025 elantra! Hyundai has done it again! We all known it sounds like sentra but they keep making new elantras every year! Now just 54,978.73 with a 56% Apr amortized weekly!
Papa pa pa paaaa! I'm loving it!
New on the McDonalds menu!
Thanks for listening to 100.7! Your friends Krissy and tushy.
Avocados from Mexico!... Now just $4.50 extra on every taco!
Donate to Snt Vincent's cousin Alfredo Medo. Every year thousands go hungry without a proper apply wristwatch...
At Von's club we're family!
You've arrived! Welcome home! Don't forget the two dildoes on your Amazon cart! The pink one is Christina's favorite. Antonio loves the blue one because its gir....door slams!
Hatchback opens.....when you open up a new Coke check under the cap to win a trip to Eldorado! ...hatchback slams!
What's sad is a significant amount of people have simply been conditioned to accept that level of noise in their lives.
If things are quieter and they aren't getting products shoved in their faces 24/7, they become visibly uncomfortable.
The quiet means you have to deal with your own thoughts and theyre certainly not going to do that!
I really fucking dislike that you used Hyundai when they are like the one company that still does cool fucking shit at prices normal people can afford.
They are also one of the worst ones at collecting your data
Is a forced subscription to use basic features included in this supposed "cool fucking shit"?
Because they do that, now I won't tell you how to live but I would not categorize selling basic features back to me as "cool fucking shit"
If someone develops an aftermarket fix to make the ads go away, now that might be a product/sertvice people will want to pay for. Look at Dodge - creating new job sectors!
Until it becomes illegal
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I sometimes wonder if my current car will be my last new car. My car has some tracking that I can supposedly disable, so I understand the appeal of classic cars more. I might have to pick up a mint condition early 2000s car for my midlife crisis.
I got a Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear from 1995 for my crisis. Its a cool vehicle tho.
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