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.

  • KayLeadfoot@fedia.ioOP
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    13 hours ago

    Dodge dropped 29% in sales in the USA last year, and something tells me, this isn’t going to have folks lining up to buy Chargers in 2025. Watch the free market* take care of this one.

    *Unless you’re Tesla, in which case the market costs $277 million to purchase.

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      1 hour ago

      Free market doesn’t work if all car brands are owned by like 5 companies and all of them agreeing to add ads.
      That is why we need to regulate cooperations as well as enforce them properly.

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      12 hours ago

      I think that has more to do with ending production on the LX Platform Challenger / Charger tbh. They haven’t quite managed to gather the same hype among domestic car nerds with their replacements as those old boats had.

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      9 hours ago

      Hornet, Journey, Charger. That’s it. Hornet is a piece of cheap, charger has ads. Journey…?