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Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight... Just What Nobody Asked For (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@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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[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 103 points 1 week ago (11 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.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Jeep and Dodge are both owned by Stellantis :) It's one shit-circus out of ~~France~~ the Netherlands (corrected because apparently I don't know geography).

On the good news front, the market is beating them like a rented mule. Dodge alone is down 29% in sales year-over-year.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actually, Stellantis has their global HQ in Hoofddorp, Netherlands.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

You are... very correct about that!

I somehow got my wires crossed and assumed that the PSA Group (who got rolled up into Stellantis) was still the home base. Thanks for the correction.

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