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Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This absolute garbage feature was spotted in the wild, take a look here.

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[–] wheeldawg 51 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Welp every manufacturer that shows this should go down immediately upon first offense.

Not even kidding, this should be corporate suicide.

Dodge and Jeep are (well Jeep already was tbh) both firmly on the "actively speak out against" list. If I was in a place of hugely inflated power, I would dismantle the entire company, and sell it to whoever that company likes the least.

This should honestly be a brand ending scenario in less than 5 seconds after the first ad. CEO should be in the bread line TODAY from getting hit with this.

ABSOLUTE zero tolerance. There are no valid arguments against this and I will die on this hill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 minutes ago

Jeep and Dodge are both owned by Stellantis :) It's one shit-circus out of France.

On the good news front, the market is beating them like a rented mule. Dodge alone is down 29% in sales year-over-year.

[–] WoodScientist 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This should be punishable by firing squad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Or better yet, the masterminds behind this will lose someone due to distracted driving over an ad.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

But I'm still not allowed to touch my cellphone while behind the wheel because the screen is too distracting, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

If you do you must buy something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

As long as your purchase is over $10,000, you have immunity from prosecution for vehicular manslaughter during the transaction.

This law brought to you by Carls Jr.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

This what I don’t get, those huge “infotainment” screens are perfectly acceptable, but you can’t answer a phone.

Edit; missed the letter “a”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

You're usually not supposed to interact with the screen either when driving, and it's easier to put your hand back on the wheel when the screen is mounded instead of dropping your phone... but I get what you mean.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago

We dun fucked up when we made tarring and feathering CEOs illegal.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I’ll accept this when the car comes for free.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

I know right? I would totally get an ad supported free car. Who knows, someone might make an ad block for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago

They'd be showing ads on the windshield and windows for that

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Stop buying new cars until they remove this bullshit. We can go 40 years with existing cars without buying a single new one.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

We need to tally up all the accidents and pedestrian hit-and-runs that occur involving cars with this “feature.” It would likely be enough of an increase you could reasonably make a class action lawsuit. I have no sympathy whatsoever for a car manufacturer that can’t get it through their heads that distracted driving is a major cause of accidents, and could easily happen by their own features.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

That's the grim truth, isn't it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago

You mean the "oopsie poopsie it's just a glitch nothing to see here" thing that was happening to jeeps a little while ago?

Color me shocked

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

This is why I'd rather rebuild my 30 year old civic's engine then buy a new car.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 32 minutes ago

I drove 80's and pre 92' VW's up until 2019 and now I'm exclusively driving pre 04 VW's . They are futuristic to me , heated sats , heat , AC its crazy .

I've amassed enough maintenance parts and transmissions to keep me going indefinitely..or until some jackass makes them illegal then I guess I'll just ride a bike

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Good that you have an older Civic. The newer ones are lemons - Honda cheaped out on the air condenser from 2017-2021, so no AC! The electrical shit in the dash is all kinds of fucked up too.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

That seems like a lot of hassle if you're then going to buy a new car anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

So... um... will the buyer get money from Dodge to drive this shit then?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

I'd quit my job and start running the campaign for anyone who's willing to run on outlawing this shit. I'd work 75 hour weeks handing out fliers about distracted driving.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What? That’s about double the price of a Camry which is probably a better car all around

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

It seems like every US brand under Stellantis has completely lost their minds.

Jeep has become all around terrible while becoming more expensive at the same time and it looks like the same thing is happening to Dodge.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

It does appear... pretty bootleg.

Starting price on a new Dodge Charger is $61,590, get on that inflation train, boss!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

If you've bought any Stellantis Fiat Chrysler Dodge Jeep etc. product in the last 20 years then you deserve this. Absolute junk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

My 2006 dodge says I do not deserve this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I bought a Pacifica plug in hybrid because I wanted electric and needed a minivan for my 3 kids. Worst decision ever.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Arcology: architectural ecology, a city intended to be contained in a single structure.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

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.

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