If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that new cars are expensive. The growing affordability crisis means it’s a lot harder for your average shopper to own more than one vehicle, forcing people to consolidate their fun car and their practical car into one vehicle.
Dodge is making that easier than ever with a new Durango R/T 392, resurrecting the company’s amazing 6.4-liter Hemi V8 to create an even rowdier three-row SUV. It delivers all the practicality you’d expect of such a large vehicle, but it can also sprint to 60 mph in under five seconds, and make all the right muscle car noises.
What’s even crazier is that the new R/T 392 is actually … affordable? Sure, $51,990 isn’t objectively affordable for the vast majority of Americans, but you have to admit, for the amount of car you’re getting here, it’s a damn good value.
Think of the new R/T 392 as a middle child between the base 5.7-liter V8-powered Durango, which makes 360 horsepower, and the full-fat, 710-horsepower, supercharged V8-powered Durango Hellcat. While it doesn’t carry the SRT badge, this is effectively a spiritual successor to the Durango SRT 392, which went out of production after the 2024 model year.
And by successor, I really mean just a reincarnation. The R/T 392 makes the same 475 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque as the SRT, sending thrust to all four wheels via the same eight-speed automatic transmission, using the same active distribution system that varies torque front to rear based on “performance driving demands.” Six-piston front brake calipers and four-piston rears also make a return, as do the adaptive dampers.
If the new R/T is anything as heavy as the 5,457-pound SRT it replaces, then it certainly won’t be an agile, lightweight track star. But at least it’ll be quick. Dodge quotes a 0-60 estimate of 4.4 seconds, and because it’s Dodge, also quotes an NHRA-certified quarter-mile time of 12.9 seconds—because those are the numbers most important to Durango buyers. Personally, I’m not too worried about actual speed, so long as it sounds like a 392 cubic-inch Hemi should.
The great thing about the Durango is that it’s a great tow vehicle, and that doesn’t change for the new R/T. Dodge says the SUV can pull 8,700 pounds, which is more than the Nissan Armada and GM’s full-size SUV triplets (the Tahoe, the Yukon, and the Escalade).
Inside, the R/T 392 is pretty well-equipped as standard, with stuff like Nappa leather and suede seats with extra bolstering—you know, for all the corner-carving you’ll be doing in this thing. Those front seats are heated and ventilated, while the second-row captain’s chairs get heating elements. On the outside, there are specific “392” badges and a specific spoiler to let everyone know you have the big-boy engine, and not the puny 5.7-liter Hemi.
If you want even more stuff, there’s a Premium trim for $59,590 that adds stuff like a sunroof, a sueded headliner, carbon-fiber interior accents, more leather trim, an 18-speaker Harman Kardon sound system, a trailer tow package, driver assistance tech, and two-piece brake rotors that provide better stopping power and cooling performance.
Before you dive into the comments saying $51,990 is nowhere near affordable, I agree! Combined, my cars might be worth $7,000 on a good day. I cannot afford to purchase a new sofa, much less a new car. But it’s important to put that price into perspective. Back in 2024, the SRT 392, which got the same engine and many of the same chassis upgrades as this new R/T, cost $75,590. So effectively, Dodge is bringing that car back for 2026, except with a near-$24,000 discount.
It’s also worth noting that the average transaction price for a new car is just over $49,000 as of last month, according to Cox Automotive. That means for the price of an average car in 2026, you can get a three-row SUV that makes 475 horsepower and sounds like your favorite V8 muscle car. That’s not bad, all things considered. Sure, fuel economy won’t be the best, and with gas prices set to go nowhere but up, the timing isn’t great. But if you don’t mind that, the R/T 392 feels like an excellent all-rounder.
Now all Dodge has to do is put this engine into a Charger, and price it similarly (or cheaper!). Then I’ll be truly happy.
Top graphic image: Dodge
Not my cup of tea, but a very good deal for a useful vehicle with that much power and the character of a large V8. I recall these being fairly solid-feeling, quiet vehicles with decent interior space and materials. I don’t mind the age, given those virtues.
They figure out how to keep the racetrack LED brake lights from burning out yet? Seems half the Durangos have this and it does nothing to improve the image of the Dodge brand.
For lols I looked at ok what if I swapped my 24 Ridgeline for this. Well I could throw some cash on top and pay for it cash. But mpg would be about 8mpg worse and my car insurance would be more than my Camaro Zl1 is in MI, more than double the Ridgeline rate. Oh yeah and (checks notes) no issues with Ridgeline, not so sure I’d be in that same boat with this.
But rrrrrrrrrrrrrr it’s got a Hemi! Vroom vroom!
No, for an actual new car buyer, $52K is plenty affordable today, barely over the average price of a new car. Seems like a legit bargain if you like this sort of thing. I don’t, but plenty of people seem to.
I’m really rather tired of the “new cars are unaffordable” whining around here. Dollars are a lot smaller today, inflation being a thing, and if your salary has not kept pace I consider that a *you* problem that you really should be trying to do something about other than whining about it. It’s very much a K-shaped economy – what are you doing to get on the other leg of the K?
And enough with the whining about the price of gas too. Where I sit right now, having filled my car up at $3.68/gal this afternoon (dollar higher than last time a month ago), adjusted for inflation that is just about *exactly* what a gallon of gas cost my senior year of high school when I got my driver’s license. Took me about 15 minutes of work at Mickey D’s to buy a gallon, a whole shift to tank the car up. Today? Given that Micky D’s starts at $17/hr here (always have a big sign up) rather less than that. Many things are *wildly* more expensive than they once were, but gasoline is emphatically not one of them, and realistically, neither are cars when you look at what you get for the money compared to back in the “good old days”. My Old Man’s retirement present Oldsmobarge 98 (most expensive Olds you could buy and hard loaded for the day) cost the equivalent of $70K today for a car with fewer amenities than mid-spec Camry, a whopping 135hp, and the build quality and reliability of a cheap Chinese toy. The good old days weren’t actually all that good.
You poor kids get off my damned lawn.
So if one can not afford something it becomes a “you problem” for not earning enough?
WTF?
Maybe grow up and skip the elitist attitude? JFC dude.
Not a good look at all.
Tell me more about BMWs and Mercedes, again… /s
I couldn’t afford anything but cheap used cars for DECADES after college. I did not whine and carry on about it. I got it in gear and got better and better jobs until I could afford the cars I wanted. The entitlement is NOT on my side.
What would you like to know about them? Happy to tell you what in my opinion are best to buy vs. avoid, how to DIY sundry tasks, etc.
Everyone has a different situation.
Not everyone’s salary keeps pace.
It’s called reality in America.
Not everyone becomes a “winner.”
That’s just life.
And not complaining here, yet.
I have driven cheap, used cars exclusively for over 50 years.
Guess that makes me a lazy loser?
If you are happy where you are with life, and most importantly, NOT COMPLAINING about your lot in life, then carry on being happy. It’s the whining and complaining that gets very old. Would I love to be able to afford a private jet? Sure, but I’m too lazy to put THAT much effort into making money even if I could (who knows, never tried). But do I whine and complain that private jets are “unaffordable” – no I do not. Nor did I complain that a new Saab was “unaffordable” back when I was driving $5K used ones. I simply didn’t make enough money to buy a new one, and that was fine. Eventually, I could.
Kevin’s boots obviously have straps.
Nope, not at all. But I don’t complain about things I can’t afford. I either am satisfied with what I can afford, or figure out a way to get what I want (historically by buying used when it comes to cars).
Name doesn’t check out 😉
You might be surprised.
Or not.
Kevin, I’ll agree with you all day long on the tired, overused narrative of “cars are too expensive” for the reasons you mention–inflation-adjusted, they really aren’t and there are still plenty of options far, far below the $50K average. I’d like to see this put to bed by the editors here, it’s getting old.
But I’m going to push back on the bootstraps narrative you’re putting forward. I’ve been listening to that argument from Republicans aiming to protect the elites and maintain the disgusting income gap in this country for my entire politically-conscious life. You know the problem with this argument: personal financial success is a combination of the individual’s choices and external factors they have no control over. Some people doing poorly will place all the blame on the latter. A lot of people doing well place all the blame on the former.
Housing, health insurance, and child care cost increases are outpacing inflation and wage growth as well. Car prices are the least of the problems.
Overall, this “everything is stacked against us” versus “pro-bootstraps” argument that we see on here a lot, lacks basically any and all nuance, as if life isn’t a complicated mess of good luck, bad luck, hard work, talent, good choices, and serious missteps. I think we’ve all known/met people who are all over the spectrum of success, and at least in my experience, the deservedness of said success is allllll over the fucking spectrum.
Kevin’s opinion that it’s all on you to afford 50k car if you want to is a massive oversimplification. If you want a 50k car, could you throw your entire being into that effort and make it happen? Depends on like, a million variables. Your odds may increase, but sometimes things simply don’t work out.
I’m also a little tired of inflation being used as an end-all-be-all metric for comparing eras. As if nothing about domestic life has changed between 1985 and 2025. I get that we’re all looking for a magic, easy formula to be able to make comparisons but life is obviously so much more messy and variable than a catch-all metric.
And finally, timing is everything. A lot of older people may be quite pleased where they ended up, provided they bought real estate any time before 2020. Those who didn’t? Are constantly being bludgeoned by the massive increases in housing costs over the past 5 years. I’m not saying everyone should be despondent and giving up based on the environment, but it’s pretty ridiculous to pull the “I did it and if you can’t that’s your fault” as if everyone has the same ability, the same resources, the same luck and the same timing. I may be doing alright, but I know that’s a combination of factors; there’s soooooo many things about my life that could have gone completely differently.
Agreed, it’s a spectrum. If you had to cut that spectrum into 3 broad categories, I’d say:
1) Timing and chance align with personal merit to produce success
2) Timing and chance do not align with personal merit so their potential is not being achieved.
3) Timing and chance hand people with no personal merit a bunch of unearned success.
I’ve got no tolerance for #3ers bragging about their situation (certainly not saying that’s you, Mr. Rhodes, but we all know this type, in fact they may running things right now!)
I consider myself a #1er. I played my cards decently and was lucky enough to be born in a year where I could buy a house before the market became unobtainable. Can’t brag about much of that. A few random circumstances would have put me in #2.
Anyway, what was the topic? Cheap but not-cheap big V8 Durango? Go Murica, VROOM!
Lol, VROOM indeed.
Exactly my point – there are LOTS of things that legitimately ARE “unaffordable” as you list, but cars are simply not one of them. Nobody is entitled to a luxury car – and at this point, as far as I am concerned as a dude pushing 60, by my standards anything that costs over $25K today is equivalent and then some to the luxury cars of my youth.
Ultimately, YOU DO have control over your finances (yes, bad things happen to nice people sometimes, but most people have nobody but themselves to blame, and I have made PLENTY of stupid financial decision). You can choose to do things that allow you to make more money, like getting more education or putting in the work to change jobs. Or you can choose to do things because they are fulfilling and fun that don’t make a ton of money, as I assume is the case with most of the writers here. You can choose whether or not to have children as another thing that has a dramatic influence on your personal finances, just like choosing to go on expensive vacations or not, or living in a palace or a shack, or go to a cheap state college or an expensive private one. But those are your choices, and you don’t get to bitch about the ramifications of those choices, at least not to me.
Hindsight being 20:20, if I could go back in time 30 years there are a TON of things I would have done differently in my life – #1 with a bullet being spending less money on cars over the years. Even when old enough to know better. I feel like I am finally mostly out of that stage of life. Now I am spending too damned much money on real estate. Sigh. But it’s not “unaffordable”, it’s just sucking up money I would have rather spent on other things. But you live with the consequences of your decisions and move on.
If they can sell any of these in the face of 4 buck gas, it’s got to be a good business move. The old chassis tooling long paid off and a basic cast iron block V8 low parts count 1 cam 16 valves.
4 buck gas! I wish. $6.15 at the station closest to me in San Jose.
Bonus points for the insane amount of parts availability there is and will be for a loooong time. Something to be said for that in the times of <10 year parts availability for some autos
Don’t forget ‘lightly used’ parts all over eBay, assuming yours doesn’t get stolen as well.
Just thinking off the top of my head… Even if the average Stellantis buyer can afford the payments on a $50,000 truck on top of his $25,000 mobile home, is it a good idea to give him the room to fit his entire family and kill off the future Hemi buying progeny? I think this is another short sighted Stellantis money grab.
Had a “regular” Hemi as a rental in Canada and I was pleasantly surprised. It feels like a 15 year old car (because it is), but it was comfortable, practical, and made a nice rumble.
I know it’s ancient, but $52k for a 6.4 and all that space is incredible value.
Yeah, but you have to deal with a Dodge dealer. Worse, everyone else on the road knows you make poor decisions.
LOL – have to admit that my sole bad car buying experience was at a CJD dealer. In Orlando. WTF was I thinking? Oh yeah a “new” Fiata for 1/3rd off – still should have kept right on going when I walked out the door of that place the first time with the salesdroid and his managerdroid chasing me.
Though as far as the Durango, have had a couple as rentals, didn’t hate them. No idea how they are to own long-term, but I have managed to own Land Rover products with more than acceptable reliability so for me I am sure it would be fine. Zero interest in such a thing, particularly with the pointlessly big motor.
This is very exciting news for people who enjoy police chase videos. I expect a bunch of spicy content once these start getting driven like they’re stolen, and they’re already a steal at full price.
Given the theft rates of hellcat and hemi powered dodge products you won’t have to wait long, haha.
Well it might just be the vehicle that brings our country together. The hillbilly buyers of V8 Hemis and the city demographic that steals them. That is bringing two widely separate demographics together with the love of just one car.
And in many of those chases, they will be driven like they were stolen because they were.
I had to look it up and this gen durango came out in 2011. I would hope they’ve found a way to sell it cheaper by now. If you’re in the market for a 15 year old car , there are much better options that will come out cheaper even with an executive gold star platinum max+ extended warranty.
We need to stop doing apoligism for Stellantis about this platform, seriously. It’s a 15 year old SUV that looks 15 years old, is terribly built, inefficient, and poorly packaged. But OMG look it has a boat anchor for an engine and has stripes on it.
This is just the inverse market from today’s expensive, technology packed, and extremely overcomplicated cars that frequently catch complaints here.
A car can be modern and have decent tech and not be a POS. Also 15 years is an insane length of time for a platform to be on sale, but it’s still a modern car with the same amount of tech as most vehicles on sale. We’re not discussing a Porsche 356 here.
My overall point is that the design is very dated, the packaging is poor, reliability is questionable at best, fuel efficiency is non-existent, driving experience is lackluster, and it’s still priced way too high for what it is.
Like if you’re going to sell the same platform for a decade and a half, okay, but keep it fresh.
The last major update was 2021. That’s hardly ancient.
No disagreement the platform is old, but what’s the basis for ‘reliability is questionable at best’ other than being a Stellantis product in general? It has a contemporary driveline, electrical architecture that has had 5 years to get the bugs worked out, and it’s cheaper than any direct competitor by a wide margin.
Do I want one? No. It’s still too new and expensive for my taste.
Love that there’s still ‘Hemi V8 Fuck Yeah!!’ folks out there. No one tell them they can get 450/510 out of a 3.5L TT EcoBoost V6.
It’s funny, my daily is a turbo 3cyl and I totally understand that a tt v6 will outperform it, but I’ll take the v8 pretty much every time if it’s a truck.
I have a Mustang for the V8 and would not take anything less. Just got my wife a Bronco with the 2.7L EB and, while it’s a pig, I now understand why they didn’t put it it in the EB Mustang.
Not to mention tons of people have been burned by ecoboost timing chain problems and other common issues. A relatively simple simple NA V8 sounds great if you’ve been burned by a modern downsized turbo engine.
And buy the vehicles with it for $75,000
Oh trust me. They know it’s out there. They don’t want it. (Don’t get them started about the lack of a dip stick.)
If someone is willing to pay for a V8 in their sporty car I won’t fault them for this. If you have the means and desire get it while you can. I prefer the Hurricane but to each their own.
Old platform, no gas guzzler tax, and taking the padding out of the old SRT markup leads to a surprisingly competitive vehicle. Big, old, cheap cars are what the Charger/300 were, and those sold pretty well.
This is the equivalent of shopping at Kohl’s where they put a price of like $250 on a shirt, mark it down to $100 and you feel like you somehow got a good deal. Then there’s the fact that the shirt has 25 cents worth of material in it and will fall apart after the first wash.
I remember buying an entire winter Florida wardrobe from Kohl’s for $75. They have left the reservation.
On one hand: the fact that they’re still making this dinosaur, haven’t updated shit, and their entire schtick is STILL “it’s got a V8 FUCK YOU!!!!” is deeply embarrassing. Like…they’ve had a quarter century to come up with literally anything else and they’re still dry humping the Hemi, which isn’t even a hemispherical V8 anymore, in 2026.
I get that there’s a sizable chunk of people who never matured emotionally beyond high school and want everything to be the same forever that will continue to hand Stellantis their money, but come on. The Wild West emissions and fuel economy standards could be gone as soon as next year depending on how midterms go. Then what? Beg for another bailout?
ON THE OTHER HAND…this pleases my monkey brain immensely and is one hell of a buy in base spec. The only other unibody SUVs you can get a V8 in are luxury cars. A 6.4 liter big block nearly 500 horsepower naturally aspirated V8 in a usable family hauler for the low 50s? It’s going to be a great time. I wouldn’t want to pay for gas or insurance, but you’re going to have a lot of fun in one of these dumbass things and can bring the whole family along.
Can’t wait to get passed by one of these on a surface street (with no passing lanes) while I go 35 mph in a 30 mph, and he’s been riding my ass for 3 seconds and then floors it by me, on the way to work.
No other way to drive any Dodge/Ram vehicle.
They’re late for the rally.
It happens I spent 15 minutes behind a guy today on his phone wanting to take a left 50 cars behind him and got pissed off when I honked after the 2nd time he could have turned. It wasn’t a Stellantis model
Keeping his Dodge license current. Dont let a day go by without intimidating/raging/’Muricaning anyone daring to slow your Ram.
Funny enough, I went home for lunch today so I could ride my motorcycle a bit. On the way back to work, I got passed by a Dodge Avenger as I went 36 mph down the 30mph street with only one lane of travel per-direction.
And just in time for skyrocketing gas prices. They couldn’t have timed this any better.
It’s the Dodge way lol.
Honestly, I feel like this new price is the only thing that makes the Durango worth buying. The platform is old, and when we were shopping for our Pilot back in late 2024 the Durango was universally panned by my family on design, fit and finish, and amenities. Then when price was figured into the decision the Durango made zero sense, as a mid-trim V6 was the more than our fully-loaded Pilot Elite. Giving the big V8 at only a slight price increase relative to competitors is the edge the Durango needs to keep its ancient platform at all competitive (to the subset of buyers who value a V8 over fuel economy, features, comfort, and build quality, anyway).
So $25,000 less is not a good deal? I listen to my friends and family and immediately ignore everyone because they don’t know shit about cars, finance, and economics.
Not sure if you read what I wrote, or if your second sentence was a targeted insult at me, but as I stated the $25k price reduction moves the 392 Durango from “idiotically overpriced” to “now a decent deal for people who value V8 power over literally everything else”. Unfortunately, I suspect this is going to be a bad deal for those who overpayed for their SRT Durango, as it will undoubtedly tank their residual value – why buy used when you can get new for the same price?
I don’t ever want another vehicle that gets 12mpg, at any price.
Hmm, my wife had been set on replacing her 1999 Durango she’s owned since new – 265,000 miles on the original engine and transmission and counting – with a Mazda CX-90. But she loves the V8 sound, and this Durango’s resemblance to the original has her very interested to hold off until she can test drive one of these.
The 8,700 lb tow rating has my attention for sure, and I’m sure you’ll be able to get this in actual colors. I would prefer the CX-90, but it’s her car after all.
The front side windows on the CX-90 are too tall for their width, and I can’t unsee it.
Yeah it’s not its best feature, looks wise, but it gives better visibility from inside as a result.
I DID NOT like the magic dial for the screen on the rental CX-90 I had last summer.
I like it but then I hate fingerprints on touch screens.
I guess if I had time to get used to it but in a rental trying to figure it out and not have a touch screen for navigation seemed unsafe.
Ah, when I was still traveling for work, the rental agencies never ponied up for the GPS option.
Has anyone perfected Voip? I was working for a newspaper about 2 decades ago. They invited several people to a demonstration of a great new idea replacement of 7 minimum wage customer service employees with a very expensive automated system. After the presentation which was set up by the selling company I asked how well does it work with accents. They did a live demonstration using me, I don’t have much of an accent, it could not understand a word I said. Warning sellers set up a demonstration to their best options. Well we didn’t buy it but the expected savings were eventually found by eliminating my job. It makes you feel good when you do something good for the company and end up getting eliminated
This was pre-COVID, so companies had not determined that spending $5k a month on top of my hourly rate so I could sit in an office building outside of Sacramento instead of my house in Pennsylvania was *perhaps* not the best use of their money.
I am in the same situation. My wife has a 2000 R/T and it even has full headers and exhaust and she quite likes that. She randomly decided she really liked 3rd gens, and has been out randomly test driving them to see what she likes and dislikes. But I’m pretty sure a 3rd gen is in my future.
I see a remarkable number of first gen Durangos out here in SoCal. I suspect rust is what kills them in most places, because the vehicle has been very durable. The upholstery is even still nice, though the foam in the driver’s seat could use replacing.
Am I the only one thinking we need more of the fairer sex being members and less of the dudes?
Good call invite your wife to join us on the site and as we chat with her maybe you can bake us some lemon bars. LOL
LOL neither of us bake, but she’ll pick up some lemon bars from Costco or Trader Joe’s.
Happy Wife, happy life!
How much does she tow?
Nothing yet, but we’d like the option as no one wants to rent RVs for Burning Man for some reason. 😉
That’s a lot of car/performance for the price. I like it!
Not bad for what it is. But with any V8 powered anything, the vehicle is just the ticket to the dance. Better have a private oil well and refinery to keep it fueled.
If you can’t afford the gas on this, you can’t afford a $52k car.
With 96month financing options, Stellantis may have the ability for you to make further poor life decisions.
“It’s $600 a month. $625 with the TruCoat. You want the TruCoat, trust me. And we can’t remove it, they apply it at the factory.”
Ok I talked to my manager, oh boy he never does this but he agreed to make it only $620 a month! It will save it from oxidation!
Hey I just had a great idea to help finance Autopian. Have Beau contact his financial companies that he uses for car sales and work out a way to combine the sale of the car and refinance the house.
As opposed to the $100,000 Ford and Chevys?
Seems crazy cheap for what it is to me.
This would have stopped my wife from buying something else last fall.
and
Why are you calling the Hemi “amazing”?
Doesn’t the Hurricane make more in HO guise than this?
I have no intention of buying a turbo six from Dodge until they’ve got several years of reliability under its belt.
The 6.4 makes amazing sounds, and seems to hold up, at least.
I’d be Ok with an adjective like “durable” or “proven”. I think those would fit it better.
But I think “amazing” is a stretch.
It feels like yet another example of Stellantis undermining their own efforts of progress. Hard to get those miles of reliability if you’re not selling them.
I just know that the engine is those things plus just a generally “great to drive” experience. I wouldn’t necessarily say amazing, but they’re definitely a powertrain with personality.
For another $25,000
It’s a bit less around 420 hp in regular guise but more in top trim. That said this Hemi engine is ancient, old design. Tho hey GM moved on to 5.3 and 6.2 AFM issues and then Fords got the Coyote which I suppose is better?
Well the tooling has long been paid off for these, so that’s a big cost cutting factor.
…and the way Stellantis is rolling these days I’d bet it’s pretty well worn so tolerances might a bit approximate…
The very thing that the depreciation article stated was the cause of the depreciation on Durangos, the age of the platform and being “behind” the competitors, is the VERY reason I think I really like them. I sat in a new SRT recently and I really liked the interior, and I’ve always like the exterior.
I’m saddened $50K is average, but at least I would consider this one. I won’t buy it. I will wait until that 30% depreciation hits in the first year, and then wait a few more, then buy it. But I like it.
I had the opposite end of the spectrum Durango in 2020, base v6 without the third row of seats, and no options. My only complaint was how thirsty it was, and how big the gas tank is because of that. Before Covid hit, I had to refuel twice a week and with cheap gas it was still like $70/tank. I assume the 392 will want premium, and given our current gas prices; well I liked the thing, but not at triple digit refueling costs. Was a comfy commuter thing though, even did decent in the snow without AWD, probably because it weighed so much.
That sounds like a standard rental I used to get, when we wanted a “large” vehicle.
We’d all hope to get a Sienna instead.
The few times I’ve hard to rent large vehicles for work, I always wound up in a Pacifica. Best feature is the chip drawer for roadtrip snacks!
Pacifica’s are great rental cars. Wouldn’t want to own one, but renting one for a road trip is always a good time.
Agreed. Two couples and luggage for a week. A drive from MIA to Key West and back and it was fine. Got reasonable fuel economy and rode (and drove) like a limo. I wouldn’t want to own one (and don’t usually haul four people and stuff around) but for what we needed, it was much better than a Tahoe.
I have a first gen durango as the family daily driver. But daily mileage is quite low overall, so fuel pricing impact is minimal as a monthly cost. Especially since that first gen only gets like 14MPG with that 5.9 in it.
Really, what I would prefer would be an early 3rd gen body with an even earlier non fuel management 6.4 swap in it.
Having owned several Stellantis products I do not want a few years old dodge anything the thing would be in the shop more than I could tolerate.
not going to lie, I didn’t think the Durango was still being made at all.
I saw a new(?) Hornet on the highway this weekend and had the same thought.
The Hornet is actually dead, though.
Not so dead as to still be on their website https://www.dodge.com/bmo.hornet.html#/models/2025/hornet