They Certainly Have Guts at Stellantis. The Rebellious Dodge Suddenly Mainly Delivers EVS EVS Instead of Muscle Cars with V8S, But As A Result, Sales Have Almost Halved.
Althegh Far From French, Dodge was for a long time a bit like the Gallic Village of Car Land. Where Everyone Dutifully Jumped on the Hybrid and EV Train, Dodge Until Recently Mounted Gigantic Hemi-V8S on Virtumy Everything. The Charger, The Challenger, The Durango: It wouldnn’t Surprise US if just the coffee machine at Dodge Headquarters is powered by a Hellcat Engine. Screaming compressors, Roaring Exhausts and Power Up to Well over 1,000 HP: Nothing was too Crazy here.
And now? Now Almost Everything is different. The Durango Still More or Less stands As the Last Remnant of the ‘Old’ Dodge, But The Challenger and Charger Have Been Replaced by the Two-and Four-through Versions Of What is in Fact One and the Same, Brand New Car. This is initially only avia -like as an ev and will also Appear on the Market in Gasoline Versions, But Without A V8. Instead, Dodge Screws The Hurricane Six-Cylinder Into The Charger, which is then Called ‘Sixpack’ Instead of Daytona.
And now on to the news that Nobody is surprised by: Loyal Dodge Customers Are Not Such Great Fans of the New Charger. In The Past Quarter, Only 25,747 Dodges were registered in the US, a whopping 48 percent less than last year. The Brand New Charger EV Accounted For Only 2,352 Sales, While the Ancient Previous Charger Still Went over the Counter 16.216 Times in the Same Quarter Last Year. Meanwhile, The Challenger then Found 11,480 Buyers, and now that both fuel monsters have dropped to virtualy 0 Due to Their Production Stop, Dodge’s sales have Halved.
For the first half of 2025, things look just slightly worse for dodge. The New Charger Delivered only 4,299 American Buyers in Six Months, Compared to Well over 48,000 for the charger and Challenger Together in 2024. MoreOover, Sales of the Already Never Popular Hornet (The Sister of the Alfa Romeo Tonale) Halved again. The Durango shows a small plus, but that 4 percent is of course not enough to compensate for the rest. The result: a drop of no less than 49 percent for dodge in the us in the first half of 2025. Ouch.
Dodge Remains Hopeful and Points to the Upcoming Arrival of the Charger Sixpack and the Four-Door Charger. That will indeed have some effect, but this is not easy made up for. Another American Stellantis Division, Ram, Once Came From Similar Policy. The RAM 1500 Pickup was initially only available with a six-cylinder in a Renewed form, but is now also available ‘simply’ with a hemi-v8 again.