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.
Welp, my days of not buying Dodge cars seem to be coming to a middle.
Be careful, it might be illegal to not buy one.
Fuck this made me giggle
For that rhyme you deserve a nickel!
Better than a twisted nipple.
You sure? Sounds like a nice tickle.
If we had actual regulation here this would be illegal for distracting driving.
Illegal to look at phone (I know everyone does it and isn’t enforced, but still illegal on paper) but not illegal to watch this short message from our sponsors?
I hate living through a bad joke. Much rather read about this shit and laugh then wondering what the next stupid thing is.
cringe cyberpunk. worst genre to live in. at least in the grim darkness of the future you can admit how bad it is.
We need root on our car computers.
It seems like displaying an ad at a stop light would be a safety issue since it makes it so you can onky look at the screen while moving.
Not to mention it has the potential to completely distract the driver when the light turns green and other traffic starts moving again.
Damn, I would be pissed if my car started showing ads. I hope this enshitification doesn’t spread.
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.
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.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.
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.
Their new $85k Charger will surely save them…
Hornet, Journey, Charger. That’s it. Hornet is a piece of cheap, charger has ads. Journey…?
Journey exists for rental fleets.
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*
You’d may as well run the red light
That was my idea as well. You are providing a negative feedback for following the rules.
I mean like I need another reason to NOT buy a Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram
Blows my mind that this kind of stuff isn’t a safety issue… I guess as long as it’s “touch-free” it’s not considered distracted driving lol
it literally is a safety issue. people are going to die over this. it’s just not illegal.
The Muse’s cleavage knows what’s up.
no other parts though. the tits themselves for example are not special. only in the aggregate, and more so in some outfits than others.
Greater than the sum of their parts, love it.
I am so happy that my car doesn’t update itself automatically
You know, I was annoyed by that when I had to pay for an out-of-warranty update but now I’m pretty happy that my car is one year too old for automatic updates.
How is a software update a warranty claim? They should be free, like a recall. Maybe a DIY option with a USB or SD card. Either that or whatever they’re adding probably isn’t worth the update to me.
Often it’s controller remapping to resolve transmission or engine issues. Those are typically recalls. The software updates you’re thinking of are typically for the infotainment system, which gets data from the rest of the vehicle and controls any wireless connectivity (if equipped).
😄my infotainment is only a "dumb” touchscreen radio with android auto / carPlay support anyway
That’s how my minivan is. It’s a 2008 Toyota Sienna with an Alpine ILX-407 and iDataLink Maestro RR for vehicle integration (i.e. steering wheel controls and OBD-II). Works great.
I thought GM foregoing CarPlay in favor of their own proprietary UI was a great way to kill sales, this is absolutely genius. Way to ensure I would never purchase your products!
Forget about just the web. Modern tech is about to become unusable due to ads.
“Glitch”
More like
“Let’s see how people react”
Took my Dodge vehicle in for service. They wanted my email address “so they can get in touch with me if I don’t answer the phone.” I gave it to them.
It took less than half a day for the first spam mail to hit my inbox.
DuckDuckGo offers a nice relay service; you get a duck.com email address that mails through to your regular email, but it strips out all the trackers and other bullshit. It’s good for situations like that.
Mozilla has one too. And Fastmail. You can invent a different email address for every site, then block the ones that get spammed.
Use addy.io and support an open source dev!
Pro-tip: Fastmail integrates with 1Password to generate random emails and save them.
Also with bitwarden!
They wanted my email address “so they can get in touch with me if I don’t answer the phone.”
“Lol no”
Then walk out.
…do you not have a fake email you can log into?
I bet someone has “anyoneemailingmeisacunt@gmail.com”
Actually tried it, seems like gmail doesnt like swear words
They really don’t make them like they used to.
adds Dodge to the no buy list
Which one is NOT on that list?
For me right now? Mazda. They have always been enjoyable to drive, and if you look at their interiors in everything from the MX-5 and Mazda3 up to their big family SUVs, you see physical controls in the foreground and a moderately sized infotainment screen up and back. Good location for glancing at it, and not for using a touch screen for everything in the car.
I’ve been commuting in a 2012 mazda3 for several years and it’s been fun to drive and mechanically reliable. Also very fuel efficient with one of the early Skyactiv branded drivetrains.
Public transportation subscription.
Two weeks ago it was Jeep. Now it’s Dodge. This is how it creeps. Are both those companies owned by Crystler?
It’s called Stellantis now.
Ask your doctor if Stellantis is right for you…
…may cause watery eyes, small penis, or death by fire.
Batteries not included.
Oh yeah I did hear that name recently
Yeah, zero surprise seeing this happen to Chrysler/Stellantis cars first.
Yes, along with Ram pickup trucks and IIRC Fiat, somehow.
Plus Peugeot, Citroën and Opel.
Chrysler Corporation (Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram) was owned by Daimler (which also owned Mercedes-Benz) from 1998-2007, then operated on their own again (and spun off Ram from Dodge) until 2014 when they were acquired by Fiat, forming Fiat Chrysler Automotive (aka FCA). FCA and PSA (Peugeot) merged in 2021 to form Stellantis.
There you go.
…to the loud apathy of us GM owners.
Indeed.
