No more V6 Durango
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Dropping the cheapest version of the Durango seems like a poor idea to get more sales unless they are planning to massively drop the price of the V8
In my area I have never seen the cheapest version. It's almost always a higher end model.
I have never seen a new Durango in recent years unless it was a rental. Most of the rental ones are the V6.
I was surprised that they still make the Durango. My local Dodge dealer only has the V6 model in inventory.
Around here, the vast majority of new Durango's are driven by the Highway Patrol.
How are they even still in business? 
This guy likes the 3.6:
No Hurricane engine?
No Hurricane engine?
It seemed the Durango was in the national news last year because some law enforcement agencies were having issues with them and were fed up with so many being out of service waiting to be repaired.
Laughable, 50K should be 20K. Nothing special here.
Was not there word here of the 3.6 being phased out?
Yep seen a bunch of stuff on this in 2024. Seems like the durango was plagued by quality issues. No way I would spend my money on that thing.
So, Stellantis got a huge chubby that EPA is rolling back their rules, so they're going to put all their eggs in that basket and be straight out of luck when the next administration cancels all of it?
Seems about right for those idiots.
Seems about right for those idiots.
We had a small handful of them, they were total junk.
Missed your calling, should have been in marketing/product design supply. Too bad huh?
Been there , done that.
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C'mon now. That's just mean.
T'is a platform that is a gazillion years old. All the tooling, R&D, everything is paid off.
Every single one they sell going further is like squeezing more juice from a squeezed lemon - pure bonus.
And it's living in a market bracket that is getting emptier every day, by external pressures, not by clients' decision.
When the regulations change again - they'll just discontinue it. They would have sold several thousands in the meantime, and wouldn't have lost a penny invested in new machinery or R&D, if not for the little tidbits that they might still be able to grab from the Stellantis parts bin.
I think it's a smart decision, and that we are much better off with this thing existing, rather than not.
I'm much happier seeing this in the price list, rather than some newer 5000lb barge with a 2 liter turbocharged matchbox.
JTK
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I didn't even know the Durango was still a thing.