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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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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 210 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 59 points 1 day ago

Stellantis looking at all that blank ad space on your infotainment console: "It's free real estate!"

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 51 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Should we make better cars that don't have the interior of 2002? No. Better add ads!

[–] commander@lemmings.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 29 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalism is an ouroborus

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[–] Bellingdog@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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Hey so I'm getting this thing on my new Charger, I think it's a check engine light?

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago

I laughed pretty hard, thanks for that

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I think I know who’s responsible.

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[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 90 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This should be punishable by firing squad.

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[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 16 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 23 hours ago (19 children)

Any minute now one of those brave-browser idiots will be along to tell us all how great ads are because they can make us aware of products that we had not yet discovered or remind us of products we didn't know were near by.

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[–] commander@lemmings.world 64 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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.

[–] bricklove@midwest.social 55 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

2026 will be the year of the Linux car

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 17 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 51 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 49 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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...

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] applemao@lemmy.world 45 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

Stop buying new cars until they remove this bullshit. We can go 40 years with existing cars without buying a single new one.

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[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

But I'm still not allowed to touch my cellphone while behind the wheel because the screen is too distracting, right?

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[–] SleepNotRequired@lemmy.world 38 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] alxmg@slrpnk.net 33 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I’ll accept this when the car comes for free.

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 31 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 27 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much everyone asked for this with their actions and choices as consumers. Lucky us, we can still choose not to buy a Dodge Charger or a Swasticar.

[–] thebluehood_380@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

It’s def gonna spread tho. This is just one model one make. For now. In 2, 5, 10 years? CP77 without any of the fun shit.

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[–] eric5949@lemmy.world 27 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (5 children)

This is why I'd rather rebuild my 30 year old civic's engine than buy a new car.

[–] joe_archer@feddit.uk 22 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

That seems like a lot of hassle if you're then going to buy a new car anyway.

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We dun fucked up when we made tarring and feathering CEOs illegal.

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[–] commander@lemmings.world 22 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 17 hours ago

The quiet means you have to deal with your own thoughts and theyre certainly not going to do that!

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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)

[–] ErinCrush@lemm.ee 22 points 7 hours ago

I will not buy or watch anything with ads. I can't stand ads. Ads represent everything wrong with the US and capitalism. Just not stop shit shoveled into our faces.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago

The worst asshat psycho drivers in my city tend to drive those things. Good schadenfreude comes from learning this news

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I chose the right decade to give up driving.

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[–] doc@fedia.io 20 points 23 hours ago (18 children)
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[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

They just did this with jeeps last month. Said it 2as an error

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

Error my ass. "Market research" was the word they wanted.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago

"OH no, we accidentally deployed ads to your car using a system that took months to develop, how could that have ever happened"

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[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago

You mean the "oopsie poopsie it's just a glitch nothing to see here" thing that was happening to jeeps a little while ago?

Color me shocked

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If this happened to me and assuming I had physical knobs/buttons for AC, etc, and those wouldn’t be affected, I would take a hammer to it, mount an iPad Mini or something for GPS, and just listen to music/podcasts/audiobooks on my phone via a Bluetooth speaker.

I already have bad road rage (I’m not proud of this & am actively working on it) and this would send me over the edge.

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[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

As an unfortunate owner of a Chrysler and having owned and driven a ton of other cars I can confidently say Stellantis makes the shittiest cars you can buy in US. On screen ads are just a small piece of an immense garbage island that is this shitty company.

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