Dodge will retire its long-running Durango SUV after 2024 and change it with a 3-row SUV with “an all-new, fashionable look,” based on Motor Development’s Alisa Priddle. The Durango’s alternative won’t get an all-new title. It should resurrect one from the corporate’s previous: the Dodge Stealth.
The unique Stealth was a sport coupe launched for the 1991 mannequin 12 months and phased out after 1996. It was a Mitsubishi 3000GT with a Dodge badge and competed with the Mitsubishi available in the market.
Priddle predicts the Stealth title will reappear on a 3-row SUV constructed on the identical platform because the Jeep Grand Cherokee. That leaves room for a bigger SUV constructed on the identical platform because the Jeep Wagoneer. Priddle writes that one will come later and should put on the Durango title.
Right this moment’s Durango is a automobile that divides critics and buyers. Our skilled reviewers give it simply 3.1 stars, whereas shoppers give it 4.7. It’s identified for energy. Whereas most producers have moved away from V8 engines in midsize SUVs, Dodge affords a alternative of three. Probably the most highly effective, discovered within the Durango SRT Hellcat mannequin, places down a jaw-dropping 710 horsepower.
However final 12 months, the Durango fell out of the record of the 25 best-selling SUVs in America. Dodge wants successful to take its place. The Durango stays its second best-selling product. However a lot of its present lineup is brief on time.
The corporate, lengthy identified for brawn and muscle, is on the verge of a makeover that might threaten the picture that has made it profitable.
Its two massive rear-wheel drive automobiles, the Charger and Challenger, are on a farewell tour in 2023. Every will get a collection of particular editions to say goodbye, however they’ll disappear after 2023. Dodge hasn’t proven off the manufacturing fashions that can take their place. However the firm has debuted an electrical muscle automobile in idea type that exhibits its future design route.
The Stealth won’t be electrical, Priddle says. As an alternative, “The brand new Hurricane 3.0-liter twin-turbo I-6 will make up for the lack of an obtainable Hemi V-8.”
