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.
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.
Stellantis looking at all that blank ad space on your infotainment console: “It’s free real estate!”
Capitalism is an ouroborus
They’re solid vehicles. My 08 caliber died last year with nearly 300k miles. Their interiors are just so old looking. I had an 97 Contour that doesn’t look much different than their current interiors.
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Hey so I’m getting this thing on my new Charger, I think it’s a check engine light?
I laughed pretty hard, thanks for that
I think I know who’s responsible.
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.
This should be punishable by firing squad.
Or better yet, the masterminds behind this will lose someone due to distracted driving over an ad.
Jeep and Dodge are both owned by Stellantis :) It’s one shit-circus out of
Francethe 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.
Dodge alone is down 29% in sales year-over-year.
“Clearly we need to add more AI, internet of shit, microtransactions and advertising on the cars to compensate!” - Stellantis CEO
I had never heard of Stellantis until the comments on this post.
That’s at least a little good news, but I want day-after total zero existence for stunts like this.
As in executed the day after murder kind of immediate punishment. In this case, total, irrevocable punishment.
C suite people literally living in shelters fighting for leftovers at a food bank after paying out years of employee salaries and benefits kind of punishment.
You can’t just fine people like this for crimes. You have to actually take away money and the ability to accrue more than enough to live on.
Wow, if you’re this fired up about car dashboard ads, wait until you hear what Google’s been doing with your data.
Yeah I’m not exactly happy about that either.
I was trying to stay on topic about this. That’s a whole different rant.
Plus, things spread before they get worse. This is a line that shouldn’t be crossed by anything in any way. The inside of my car is a nice little island. It should stay that way.
I feel pretty much everybody would agree with that. Even the ones open to it probably just want to make the money from it without having to deal with it themselves.
I dunno about anyone else but you can slide into my DMs with that rant since i ain’t getting visited by the fediverse chic anyways
Actually, Stellantis has their global HQ in Hoofddorp, Netherlands.
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.
I wonder why they can’t get it right
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.
What does this have to do with brave-browser users?
Brave derives revenue from advertising.
Brave devotees are the only people I’ve ever seen defending advertising as a user friendly revenue model.
I had no idea lol I use brave just to avoid ads which is why I’m confused.
Brave is involved in a crypto scam and is backed by conservative evil fuck Peter thiel
Thanks for the heads up.
I’d suggest you change to Firefox, but they have made some… troubling changes to their privacy policy recently, so it may be a good idea to use a debranded port of it instead.
Afaik that’s mostly FUD and was debunked.
I’m still not happy with Mozilla throwing money down the AI toilet.
I already mainly use Firefox, BUT I need a browser that supports client certificates (aka mutual TLS). The desktop version does, but not the mobile one.
Also, once in a while, I need to do something through a shitty website that simply doesn’t work in firefox but does in a webkit/blink.
I usually just blacklist those and never come back, but sometimes it’s something I can’t avoid like taxes or gov related bs.If y’all got a good suggestion, thanks
you have 48 hours to uninstall brave or you will be thoroughly cancelled.
on lemmy, using the browser you are currently using is tantamount to getting a maga tattoo
you may delay the cancellation by 24 hours by promoting your affinity for linux installs, or swearing that you will switch to a non USA produced kind of ketchup
also, no nicole for you until you reform from your evil ways
Downvoters don’t get the joke!
Brave is a series scam company.
2026 will be the year of the Linux car
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.
The linux dashboard
car assistant
OMG, Car AI…
You seem to be hungry, maybe hangry, you haven’t eaten in a while. Sheets is open and has fresh hot food! You know that coffee you got 2 hours ago should be wearing off, don’t you want to stop for a bathroom break? Their restrooms are cleaned hourly!
nabu el carro
4 updates since this morning
I drive an ‘03 Lexus SC430. No dealer locked bs, never has issues, documentation easily obtainable, new OEM parts still sold.
Basically a Linux car.
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.
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.
Encrypted ECM? Build a new foss one and sell them online, you’ll make bank.
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This what I don’t get, those huge “infotainment” screens are perfectly acceptable, but you can’t answer a phone.
Edit; missed the letter “a”.
You are typically allowed to have limited interaction with a mounted phone.
You can’t pick your phone up or anything like that, but you are allowed some very limited usage if it’s mounted. It’s no different than a built in car dash at that point.
However, fuck this, this is beyond expected use, and is definitely going to cause distracted driving.
If you do you must buy something
C O N S U M E
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…
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.
Stop buying new cars until they remove this bullshit. We can go 40 years with existing cars without buying a single new one.
I have a Renault master from 2016. I’m pretty sure I can squeeze another 50 years out of this diesel bitch with adequate maintenance and care. Plus my other car is an e-bike.
That’s awesome ! My dad had a Renault back in the 70s air cooled…which is super weird for living in middle of nowhere. He overheated it eventually haha
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.
It does appear… pretty bootleg.
Starting price on a new Dodge Charger is $61,590, get on that inflation train, boss!
What? That’s about double the price of a Camry which is probably a better car all around
It seems like every US brand under Stellantis has completely lost their minds.
Jeep has become all around terrible while becoming more expensive at the same time and it looks like the same thing is happening to Dodge.
I’ll accept this when the car comes for free.
I know right? I would totally get an ad supported free car. Who knows, someone might make an ad block for it.
They’d be showing ads on the windshield and windows for that
An ad that appears at the top of the steering wheel, that always stays at the top since they embedded a circular screen into the wheel so the ads can always be shown.
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.
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.
Unless everybody now says “I’ll never buy anything from dodge”. If it doesn’t impact sales it really will become the new norm.
You’d really need to boycott anything made by the Stellantis group, which includes
- Abarth
- Alfa Romeo
- Chrysler
- Citroen
- Dodge
- DS
- Fiat
- Jeep
- Lancia
- Maserati
- Opel
- Peugot
- RAM Trucks
- Vauxhall
Because the exact same thing was reported by Jeep drivers a few weeks ago. Maybe the behavior stays contained to just the American brands under the Stellantis umbrella, but better to be safe than sorry.
Lancia
Sad to see that name here, but they’re nothing like they were in the Group B days. At least my ultimate dream car will never have ads, even if I’ll never be able to afford the car itself 🥲
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I have a Kia, likely going Toyota or Honda when it’s time. So help me if they do this shit…
This
That’s exactly the attitude that makes shit like this possible.
We dun fucked up when we made tarring and feathering CEOs illegal.
Did we?
This is why I’d rather rebuild my 30 year old civic’s engine than buy a new car.
That seems like a lot of hassle if you’re then going to buy a new car anyway.
Why would i be buying a new car anyways? I don’t want one, the newest car I’m even interested in purchasing in the future is over a decade old. I just drive my wife’s car when I work on mine.
He was making fun of a light grammatical error in your post.
You said ‘I’d rather rebuild the engine then buy a new car’
What you meant was ‘I’d rather rebuild the engine than buy a new car.’
“Then” means that you will be doing something subsequently. “Than” means that you will be doing something instead of something else. Normally this is a grammatical nitpick, but it actually changes the meaning of your sentence by using the wrong word.
Jfc
Good that you have an older Civic. The newer ones are lemons - Honda cheaped out on the air condenser from 2017-2021, so no AC! The electrical shit in the dash is all kinds of fucked up too.
6th gen best gen ♥️
Like, I feel so fucked over. I wanted a Civic because they’re usually reliable, and I got a shitbox that gets so hot during the summer that my phone shuts off.
Really sucked, because Doordash/Uber for cash would be really helpful.
I drove 80’s and pre 92’ VW’s up until 2019 and now I’m exclusively driving pre 04 VW’s . They are futuristic to me , heated sats , heat , AC its crazy .
I’ve amassed enough maintenance parts and transmissions to keep me going indefinitely…or until some jackass makes them illegal then I guess I’ll just ride a bike
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I really fucking dislike that you used Hyundai when they are like the one company that still does cool fucking shit at prices normal people can afford.
They are also one of the worst ones at collecting your data
source?
I recall seeing a visual of it too. I’ll see if I can dig it up.
Of these literally only the Tesla one is an issue and a major one, sharing video clips.
Fucking voice recognition, lmao.
- Who uses that?
- The people who use that are glad that they use that data to improve it, because they want that working, that’s just how the world works have to break it to you kiddo
Ok, kiddo, enjoy not having privacy. You’re going to love having ads at stop lights, kiddo.
Is a forced subscription to use basic features included in this supposed “cool fucking shit”?
Because they do that, now I won’t tell you how to live but I would not categorize selling basic features back to me as “cool fucking shit”
yeah, I don’t get why Hyundai doesn’t run it’s servers for free thus avoiding having to have the customer be charged for it.
also they should be developing the app for free, by just not paying developers, what a genius idea you have, let me contact Hyundai Corporate right away.
You’re right they shouldn’t charge for it. That’s why you buy a car, it’s not like they don’t make money selling you a car.
It’s an optional feature, you dont have to pay for it, you can remote start from your keyfob if you want…
Until you can’t
Yes, that’s when I wouldn’t buy the car, that’s how things work.
Remote start doesn’t need a server, Unlocking your doors doesn’t need a server and temp controls don’t need a server. These are things that are controlled and operated locally, But Hyundai sure as fuck thinks they do.
You can do them all for free from yoir keyfob, bluelink is specifically for when you want to do it from dar away for some reason and that’s a luxury service that you can pay for if you want…
Damn people are dumb about this
Do their newer cars still burn oil like crazy because thats not so great
