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Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight (fuelarc.com)
submitted 1 day ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 103 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Damn, I would be pissed if my car started showing ads. I hope this enshitification doesn't spread.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 65 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SecondaryAnnetagonist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Despite their reputation, the LX platform was serious value, offering stupid power for cheap. It had the "classic American muscle car" vibes, and responds nicely to modifications.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 18 hours 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.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Their new $85k Charger will surely save them...

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Journey exists for rental fleets.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Narrator: "It spread. A lot. Like, a lot a lot. Really you wouldn't believe how much it spread. It spread like Domino's™ all new creamy red sauce on only the freshest of dough seasoned wi---"

*car crashes*