Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight
Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight
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 garbage feature was...
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.
Barf
I'd get rid of that car so fast it would make your head spin. There is no car I'd put up having this garbage to keep
Been doing this with Jeeps already. They claimed it was a mistake.
https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/jeep-in-car-ads-popup-stellantis-software-revenue/
"Oops! We accidentally incorporates ads into our software! It was an honest mistake..."
I've never wanted to go smashing car windows in a lot until now
You know, I always expected Tesla to be the first to do this kind of shit, but never underestimate Stellantis's commitment to be at the bottom.
This is old and they’ve already said it’s a bug. Stellantis sucks for sure though.
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!
This is like shooting a hole in the bottom of the boat so the leaking water has somewhere to go out.
Damn, I would be pissed if my car started showing ads. I hope this enshitification doesn't spread.
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*
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.
Their new $85k Charger will surely save them...
Hornet, Journey, Charger. That’s it. Hornet is a piece of cheap, charger has ads. Journey…?
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.
If this ever happens to any car I buy, it'd be going right back to the dealer.
I bet you might have a court case if you could prove that the dealer had disabled this advertising “feature” during your test drive.
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.
.........do you not have a fake email you can log into?
I bet someone has "anyoneemailingmeisacunt@gmail.com"
They'll see the sales of the Charger tank and will conclude that people just don't want muscle cars, which is sad because in the next few years I was thinking about getting one.
Oh well, what can you do.
I’ve been debating getting a new car after paying a ton to fix up my old one but now I think I’ll keep her forever.
Anybody got a lead on a rebuilt turbo for a 2.0L TSI?
Same boat, big bill this time though. Weighing my options. Not really liking the price, quality, or connectivity of newer vehicles...
They really don't make them like they used to.
adds Dodge to the no buy list
Which one is NOT on that list?
You do realize this is based on a almost half-a-year old reddit post? What has happens in the meantime?
Note to self, never buy a Stelantis car. Not that I have ever considered that anyway!
4 months is "almost" half a year in the same way Elon Musk has got almost 6 inches to work with.
Point of the post is that this popup ad thing has expanded from Jeep (small brand) into Dodge (large brand) from the parent company (Stellantis). What has happened in the meantime is that a bunch of other Dodge drivers has confirmed the issue is widespread and difficult to disable.
Thanks for the extremely helpful analogy
I'm glad people are made aware of it!
My point was, if the ads are still pushed to cars, I'm surprised FuelArc used a 4 month old reddit post as reference. Someone most have contacted Dogde, Jeep, or Stelantis for a comment on this.
Oh, look...!!
Yet another good reason I'll not buy a new car. 🙄
Perfectly happy with my current 03 model thank you...
Seriously! My 2003 has a CD player and a tape deck
😂 🤣
Yeah, mine did too...
I updated the "entertainment deck" to a unit with aux, usb, sd card, and Android Auto (which is what I really wanted).
All good!!
My ‘15 car is amazing except for the fact that it only has slow-ass laggy Bluetooth and NO AUX JACK
Is that an 8-track tape deck? 😉
Narrator: And that's when he hit a speed bump, and the whole engine just fell out.
Speed run to bankruptcy.
Also known as how to ensure a robust used car market until they pull their head out of their ass.
Weren't they going to discontinue both the charger and challenger?
I thought they discontinued the challenger in 1986. The whole brand kinda blew up.
Theres a core memory! Those 80s challengers were real pieces of shit. Ignoring that, challenger space craft have about the same longevity. Too soon?
If you disconnect the car’s cellular network, do the ads go away?
Welp. That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Of the class action variety.
Oh, I thought you meant a lawsuit from me. When I, a pedestrian am crossing the street with my walk signal, when suddenly, the guy at the opposite side of the intersection just starts driving at a red light because he was distracted by McDonalds. Didn't even realize his foot was on the pedal, and now I got run over.
I'm pretty sure the point of showing the ads only at intersections is, that the car needs to be in a standstill
So they kinda give you "entertainment", while you're waiting
Obviously a completely shit move, but I'm afraid, we can't hit them for safety issues here
Maybe more relevant would be, that people will miss the green light or produce more traffic jams, because that they're clear to move on
(Or did I miss something how/when they show their stupid ads?)
Excited to see what they'll do with Revanced for cars.