Remember how it seemed like Dodge teased a new Hellcat model yesterday? Well, here it is, and I probably could’ve done a better job of predicting it. It’s the Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak, and while it’s not a mic-drop moment, consider this highly customizable trim level a bit of fan service.
[Note: Turns out, The Autopian’s fearless leader had received embargoed info about this new vehicle on Monday and didn’t tell us until after I’d written my article yesterday, hypothesizing that a new Hellcat might be coming. – TH]
Okay, so the Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak doesn’t add any power or performance hardware, but it’s still cooking with a 710-horsepower 6.2-liter supercharged Hellcat V8. That means this three-row family hauler can go from zero-to-60 mph in 3.5 seconds, storm down the quarter-mile in 11.5 seconds, and keep on pulling to 180 MPH. Imagine outrunning a Lamborghini Murcielago in a Dodge family hauler. Kinda wild, right?
See, the appeal of this new trim is that it lets you go wild when spec’ing it out. Just like with the Charger SRT Hellcat Jailbreak and Challenger SRT Hellcat Jailbreak, the Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak lets you pair basically any color, upholstery, or trim option with any other color-related option, like you can on some of the world’s most exotic cars.
Right out of the gate, you can choose from six exterior colors: Green Machine, Destroyer Gray, Diamond Black, Octane Red, Vapor Gray and White Knuckle. What’s going on with the Plum Crazy Durango in the background of some photographs? Well, if none of the six regular colors float your boat, you can get a custom one-of-one color. Who’ll be the hero to order their Durango Hellcat in the Neon’s snot-rocket Nitro Yellow Green, or Yellow Jacket from the Charger, or that Purple Metallic from the Plymouth Prowler, or something color-shifting? From there, you get to choose from six different wheel options, and you can choose between red, black, orange, or yellow brake calipers.
Beyond that, there’s the badging. All the badges can be ordered in silver, red, bronze, or black, but only the fender emblems can be had in yellow or orange. If you want a gloss black hood, that’s also cool, and you can choose between five different stripe colors. Blue stripes over a white Durango serve up some Y2K-era Viper vibes, black-and-red stripes bring things into the ACR era, and for those looking for something different, there are red stripes, silver stripes, grey stripes, or the clean option of no stripes.
On the inside of the Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak, your color choices depend on how many seats you want. Black leather and Alcantara can be had with five-seat or seven-seat configurations, while ticking the six-seater box expands the palette to brown, red, grey, or dark red. A choice of black, red, brown, or grey seat belts finish off the color choices, but then you’ll need to select standalone options. How about a sueded steering wheel, or a sunroof, or black exhaust tips, or summer tires? I reckon the Premium Package is essential because it includes a 19-speaker Harman/Kardon audio system, the trailer tow group really is a no-brainer, and a suede headliner really ties the space together.
Once you’re done picking your options, your Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak will get its own serialized badge in the carbon fiber trim, and boom. Like Burger King, you’re having it your way. Sure, it’s not new performance bits, and it’s not going to really shake up the world of fast SUVs, but the Durango SRT Hellcat is great, so anything that gets more of them out the door is a plus in my books.
Top graphic image: Dodge
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Ugh, why didn’t they do 1-of-1 color options on the Challenger Jailbreak? 🙁
Is this Stellantis’ attempt at a business “Hail Mary?”
I’ve never really liked the Durango, just not my type of car, but to each their own. Cool that they’re offering it in any color you like…but remind me how this is going to help them in the long run? They aren’t going to sell enough of these to turn any meaningful profit. At the end of the day their problem is they don’t have any new products to offer except the Charger. And they still haven’t released the one version of it that could sell in volume numbers, the four door ICE model. Yes there’s definitely people who are more than happy to buy thirsty V8 cars, and with fewer environmental regulations they can certainly sell them for longer. But again, I don’t think that’s a winning strategy. There’s just not enough of those people to keep a whole company afloat indefinitely. And Dodge doesn’t have enough new products to remain competitive for long.
I wonder how many regular Durango sales are to fleets at this point. I imagine rental fleets like them and I know police departments do.
I mean the tooling has been paid off for a very long time. Basically any one of these they sell they get a boatload of profit. Until they can make some other meaningful product it’s actually a pretty good way to make money…
Does it make me old that I wish this was a Magnum wagon instead of a generic SUV? AT LEAST prior to customized
The 1 of 1 crowd must be absolutely foaming at the mouth right now!
They know what they’ll have!
I recently had a Durango R/T as a rental in Toronto. I think that had about 360HP. It was a fun rental and better all-around than I would have expected from a Chrysler product. However, we got about 14MPG so I can’t imagine what double the HP gets.
The regular Hemi can easily hit its EPA numbers on the highway (22) as long as it’s relatively flat and the cylinder deactivation can kick in. For comparison’s sake, that’s substantially better than the V6 4Runner of the same eras.
But any heavy vehicle sucks in stop&go traffic. Even our lowly V6 FWD Honda struggles to break 15-16 in mostly city driving.
I don’t get the tinglies from the Durango, but I do get the fuzzy feelies for that purple paint