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.
Why? Well, probably because Dodge badly needs the money. The brand’s U.S. sales plummeted 29% in 2024
This’ll help sales, I’m sure.
Stellantis looking at all that blank ad space on your infotainment console: “It’s free real estate!”
Should we make better cars that don’t have the interior of 2002? No. Better add ads!
The american dream right here.
It’s why american cars suck. Nobody buys dodge overseas.
You have to be stupid enough to buy something just to support your ruling class in order to buy american cars.
I saw my first one the other day (outside of America).
The guy clearly is an American living here. It’s hard to put into words just how out of place it all looked, it’s like you picked up a palm tree, cocunuts and all, and plopped it down in the middle of Antarctica.
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Hey so I’m getting this thing on my new Charger, I think it’s a check engine light?
I laughed pretty hard, thanks for that
I think I know who’s responsible.
Welp every manufacturer that shows this should go down immediately upon first offense.
Not even kidding, this should be corporate suicide.
Dodge and Jeep are (well Jeep already was tbh) both firmly on the “actively speak out against” list. If I was in a place of hugely inflated power, I would dismantle the entire company, and sell it to whoever that company likes the least.
This should honestly be a brand ending scenario in less than 5 seconds after the first ad. CEO should be in the bread line TODAY from getting hit with this.
ABSOLUTE zero tolerance. There are no valid arguments against this and I will die on this hill.
This should be punishable by firing squad.
Or better yet, the masterminds behind this will lose someone due to distracted driving over an ad.
Jeep and Dodge are both owned by Stellantis :) It’s one shit-circus out of France.
On the good news front, the market is beating them like a rented mule. Dodge alone is down 29% in sales year-over-year.
Dodge alone is down 29% in sales year-over-year.
“Clearly we need to add more AI, internet of shit, microtransactions and advertising on the cars to compensate!” - Stellantis CEO
I had never heard of Stellantis until the comments on this post.
That’s at least a little good news, but I want day-after total zero existence for stunts like this.
As in executed the day after murder kind of immediate punishment. In this case, total, irrevocable punishment.
C suite people literally living in shelters fighting for leftovers at a food bank after paying out years of employee salaries and benefits kind of punishment.
You can’t just fine people like this for crimes. You have to actually take away money and the ability to accrue more than enough to live on.
Wow, if you’re this fired up about car dashboard ads, wait until you hear what Google’s bee doing with your data.
Yeah I’m not exactly happy about that either.
I was trying to stay on topic about this. That’s a whole different rant.
Plus, things spread before they get worse. This is a line that shouldn’t be crossed by anything in any way. The inside of my car is a nice little island. It should stay that way.
I feel pretty much everybody would agree with that. Even the ones open to it probably just want to make the money from it without having to deal with it themselves.
Actually, Stellantis has their global HQ in Hoofddorp, Netherlands.
I wonder why they can’t get it right
They’re just testing to see what people are willing to accept.
Every time you see a useful idiot saying “it’s not that bad” or “they’re a business and they need to make money”, you know who to blame for why things are the way they are.
2026 will be the year of the Linux car
Aptera, what I’m waiting for. They claim they will have all parts available online for easy repairs, and IMO it’s just a really cool car concept.
I drive an ‘03 Lexus SC430. No dealer locked bs, never has issues, documentation easily obtainable, new OEM parts still sold.
Basically a Linux car.
This literally happened to Jeeps a month ago.
“It should also be noted that ads are part of your contractual agreement with SiriusXM, but we are working on the frequency,” replied a Jeep Cares representative. “Thank you for your patience.”
A Stellantis spokesperson told Fortune in a statement that “a temporary software glitch affected the ability to instantly opt out in a few isolated cases, though instant opt-out is the standard for all our in-vehicle messages. Our team had already identified and corrected the error, and we are following up directly with the customer to ensure the matter is fully resolved.”
Fool me once, Stellantis…
Companies sure so have a lot of “glitches” and “technical difficulties” when they’re introducing controversial features that forces it on a group of people, only to be nearly immediately removed with all kinds of excuses… And then the feature is forced for everyone within a few months.
Almost like it’s NOT unintentional, they’re NOT experiencing technical difficulties, and they’re actually just testing the waters before diving in, with neatly 0 intent to pull back unless the consumers put upenoigh of a fuss the company execs get scared.
Did you know John Deere tractors have a dedicated piracy scene? Because the tractors require authorized technicians to service them and doesn’t allow farmers to service them themselves, spoofed firmware has appeared and is fairly frequently used to bypass this.
My point is, if you can jailbreak a tractor you can jailbreak a car. Just a matter of time.
Hell yes I do.
When that old antipiracy ad was like “you wouldn’t download a car,” turns out they were vastly overestimating your average American tractor owner or car driver’s respect for the corporate arcology.
Arcology: architectural ecology, a city intended to be contained in a single structure.
Thanks boss, I used the word and I’m like “I’m maybe 10% sure this is a word and most that confidence is coming from SimCity 2000” but then I went full send, I might not be the best journalist.
You know, I meant the corporate hierarchy. They’re increasingly living in Spacex company towns or other arcologies and such. The gated communities, whatever the corpo version of the Ivory Tower is. In a word, that one building from SimCity 2000.
Encrypted ECM? Build a new foss one and sell them online, you’ll make bank.
Stop buying new cars until they remove this bullshit. We can go 40 years with existing cars without buying a single new one.
I have a Renault master from 2016. I’m pretty sure I can squeeze another 50 years out of this diesel bitch with adequate maintenance and care. Plus my other car is an e-bike.
The cost of used cars isn’t much better assuming you don’t want a piece of crap. After almost being killed by 2 used cars I’d prefer to not risk it anymore.
I was very lucky in that I can repair most cars. It’s a lot harder now. Before I had a real job, all my vehicles cost less than 3k. If you learn what to look for and to stay safe (brakes, tires) you shouldn’t really be in danger with a used car. Now in an accident, some ass in a 30 foot tall dodge truck will kill you, but that’s kind of unavoidable even if you’re on the sidewalk
Subaru has great safety ratings and the “used Subaru tax” (as in, a used Subaru tends to be more expensive) is because they are very good cars. They have some of the best safety ratings on the market.
Starting price is now $58,000.
They ditched selling the accessible models for the luxury market and they do the most cheap and trashy thing possible.
It’s incredible how stupid millionaire CEOs can be.
It does appear… pretty bootleg.
Starting price on a new Dodge Charger is $61,590, get on that inflation train, boss!
What? That’s about double the price of a Camry which is probably a better car all around
It seems like every US brand under Stellantis has completely lost their minds.
Jeep has become all around terrible while becoming more expensive at the same time and it looks like the same thing is happening to Dodge.
If someone develops an aftermarket fix to make the ads go away, now that might be a product/sertvice people will want to pay for. Look at Dodge - creating new job sectors!
As long as the money never touches the hands of those who need it, the ruling class is satisfied.
Until it becomes illegal
This is why I’d rather rebuild my 30 year old civic’s engine than buy a new car.
That seems like a lot of hassle if you’re then going to buy a new car anyway.
Why would i be buying a new car anyways? I don’t want one, the newest car I’m even interested in purchasing in the future is over a decade old. I just drive my wife’s car when I work on mine.
He was making fun of a light grammatical error in your post.
You said ‘I’d rather rebuild the engine then buy a new car’
What you meant was ‘I’d rather rebuild the engine than buy a new car.’
“Then” means that you will be doing something subsequently. “Than” means that you will be doing something instead of something else. Normally this is a grammatical nitpick, but it actually changes the meaning of your sentence by using the wrong word.
Jfc
Good that you have an older Civic. The newer ones are lemons - Honda cheaped out on the air condenser from 2017-2021, so no AC! The electrical shit in the dash is all kinds of fucked up too.
6th gen best gen ♥️
Like, I feel so fucked over. I wanted a Civic because they’re usually reliable, and I got a shitbox that gets so hot during the summer that my phone shuts off.
Really sucked, because Doordash/Uber for cash would be really helpful.
I drove 80’s and pre 92’ VW’s up until 2019 and now I’m exclusively driving pre 04 VW’s . They are futuristic to me , heated sats , heat , AC its crazy .
I’ve amassed enough maintenance parts and transmissions to keep me going indefinitely…or until some jackass makes them illegal then I guess I’ll just ride a bike
We dun fucked up when we made tarring and feathering CEOs illegal.
So while you are allowed to use a cars dash for car functions, you should not be drawing someones attention away from the road while at a red light.
How could this be anything but distracted driving.
What happens when this ad pops up, you look at it and read its quite lengthy text, and then get rear ended because you weren’t keeping an eye on the rear mirror?
I’d love to see that lawsuit (although it’d suck for the hurt person)
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What’s sad is a significant amount of people have simply been conditioned to accept that level of noise in their lives.
If things are quieter and they aren’t getting products shoved in their faces 24/7, they become visibly uncomfortable.
The quiet means you have to deal with your own thoughts and theyre certainly not going to do that!
Lol seriously! When we had our first kid and moved to a new place we didn’t unpack the TV at all and that made things inside the house quiet. Like weird quiet.
I really fucking dislike that you used Hyundai when they are like the one company that still does cool fucking shit at prices normal people can afford.
They are also one of the worst ones at collecting your data
source?
I recall seeing a visual of it too. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
Is a forced subscription to use basic features included in this supposed “cool fucking shit”?
Because they do that, now I won’t tell you how to live but I would not categorize selling basic features back to me as “cool fucking shit”
yeah, I don’t get why Hyundai doesn’t run it’s servers for free thus avoiding having to have the customer be charged for it.
also they should be developing the app for free, by just not paying developers, what a genius idea you have, let me contact Hyundai Corporate right away.
Remote start doesn’t need a server, Unlocking your doors doesn’t need a server and temp controls don’t need a server. These are thing that are controlled and operated locally, But Hyundai sure as fuck thinks they do.
You’re right they shouldn’t charge for it. That’s why you buy a car, it’s not like they don’t make money selling you a car.
I chose the right decade to give up driving.
I chose the right decade to get a car without any options whatsoever
My 2007 just clicked over to 271K miles and I’m going to keep it running as long as possible. It has all normal bells and whistles of a limited version, but was built before all this madness began. It’s a CAR.
We were rocking an 08 Mazda without even power windows up until a few years ago. Even that is too much these days. I’m happier on buses and trains.
