[0:09] The 2026 Dodge Durango. If you followed
[0:12] any of this brand's marketing, you'll
[0:13] know that the V8 is back and they're
[0:15] going to put it in everything that they
[0:16] can. They're pulling it out of their
[0:18] janitor's closets, their basements, you
[0:20] name it, so you can have one. For '26,
[0:23] the Durango now comes standard with it.
[0:25] And if you get the RT 392 that I'm
[0:28] sitting in,
[0:30] you are getting the kitchen sink and
[0:32] more power. It makes about 30% more
[0:35] power and around 20% more torque, which
[0:38] means you're pushing nearly 500
[0:40] horsepower and this thing is fast in a
[0:42] straight line. And they're going to tell
[0:43] you it's track inspired, which clearly
[0:46] you're not going to take it on track
[0:48] like we did, but I'm going to tell you a
[0:49] few things about this. The main thing is
[0:51] if you if you wanted a V8 in a three-row
[0:54] SUV, you had to get your
[0:57] the Germans to spend around $100,000 to
[0:59] do so and then having about half of its
[1:02] value eviscerated in 3 years.
[1:05] The 392 RT starts at about $50,000.
[1:10] And what you're getting here is you're
[1:12] getting fully leather interior, full
[1:14] leather accents, you're getting the
[1:16] suede headliner, you're getting a really
[1:18] good audio system, a ton of usable
[1:20] space, and a known quantity. The Durango
[1:23] has been out forever. Their V8 they've
[1:26] been milking forever and
[1:29] the thing is they've depreciated it.
[1:31] They've depreciated this, the tooling,
[1:33] everything to make the drivetrain, so
[1:35] they can drive down the price. It's not
[1:37] that they just magically lowered it. I
[1:39] think they figured out how to package
[1:40] this to give people what they actually
[1:42] want is a fun three-row SUV that has the
[1:46] space for kids, things, and it can
[1:48] actually tow. We're talking around like
[1:50] 8,700 lb of towing capacity. And to put
[1:53] that in perspective, you know, some of
[1:55] the bigger SUVs are pushing like 9,000
[1:57] lb of towing and you're getting a
[1:59] a nearly sorted out as much as you can
[2:02] get a sorted out Dodge with some
[2:04] physical controls, things that they know
[2:06] people want that you're not going to get
[2:08] tired of having every single day. And
[2:10] again, at that price point, that's why
[2:14] you would consider this over so many
[2:16] other vehicles that if you want some
[2:18] character, you want to have a little bit
[2:19] of fun, you want to have that V8 sound,
[2:22] there's nobody else doing this and this
[2:24] is what this brand is really good at.
[2:26] And if they can sweat some of the detail
[2:27] work of getting their quality back up
[2:30] and some of their attention to detail
[2:31] back where it needs to be, at this price
[2:33] point, it's it's really unrivaled. So,
[2:36] if that's what you're looking for,
[2:38] you're going to love this. Jack and I
[2:40] are going to take [laughter] this out on
[2:41] track briefly and have kind of a fun
[2:43] conversation and meaningless
[2:45] conversation about what it's like to
[2:47] drive.
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[4:17] >> Last time I was in this,
[4:19] I did watch this thing drive away after
[4:21] my third divorce.
[4:23] >> Thank god Mike got a V8.
[4:24] >> But I'm here with you now. Everything's
[4:25] way better. [laughter]
[4:31] >> [music]
[4:35] >> Durango RT Mark 392
[4:38] 500 500 horsepower. It's got less
[4:42] understeer than that up to we just got
[4:43] out of.
[4:45] Honestly, this thing hustles really
[4:47] really well.
[4:48] I was talking to poor Chris who can't
[4:51] speak to us because he's in the back
[4:52] seat. Oh my god, dude.
[4:54] >> [laughter]
[4:56] >> Hey,
[4:57] I told you when I brought Joey to
[4:58] school, his friends would talk about,
[5:00] you know,
[5:02] "Joey, does your dad have the 392?" I
[5:04] said, "Yeah, I got the 392."
[5:06] >> the credit score?
[5:07] >> Yes, it is.
[5:08] >> [laughter]
[5:08] >> And that's what happened. She took all
[5:10] my didn't pay off the credit
[5:11] cards, and now I'm stuck with all this
[5:13] debt, and I don't even have this. So,
[5:15] it's great to be able to drive it again.
[5:17] >> Well, thankfully for you, this RT 392 is
[5:21] pretty affordable. I believe it costs
[5:22] less than $60,000 when you can start
[5:24] ordering one.
[5:25] >> Well, what other V8 SUVs exist?
[5:28] >> Other than the X5, the GLC or GLE,
[5:32] the Q7 in this price category, none of
[5:35] them. What I was saying earlier to you,
[5:37] Mark, Oh my god, dude. What I was saying
[5:39] to you earlier is that
[5:41] this
[5:43] because it's on the older, very old
[5:46] uh, platform that was originally sourced
[5:48] from Mercedes under Daimler,
[5:50] and the RAM are probably the two
[5:52] Stellantis products I actually think are
[5:54] genuinely well-sorted vehicles and
[5:57] competitive in their class. Like,
[6:01] dynamically,
[6:02] this V8 has a ton of character. The 392
[6:05] hasn't changed in 400 years, and it's
[6:07] great for it.
[6:09] The ZF 8-speed does it Jesus Christ.
[6:12] >> it way too much sense, pal. Nobody gives
[6:14] a about this. My wife didn't care
[6:16] about any of this stuff.
[6:17] >> [laughter]
[6:17] >> She wanted the 392,
[6:20] and I told her I would get it. I worked
[6:22] three different jobs. Joey went to a
[6:24] private school. Guess what? Now she's
[6:26] got another kid on the way with this new
[6:28] guy, and they got a free car out of me.
[6:31] >> Well, Mark, I'm sorry you're sad, but
[6:34] the drivetrain in this thing is great.
[6:35] It handles well. It's double wishbone
[6:37] car. The all-wheel drive systems are
[6:38] good, and the brakes, despite being a
[6:40] house, have not faded out yet.
[6:43] >> did. It faded out.
[6:44] >> Oh, it did?
[6:44] >> Yeah, no. Well, then we'll just we won't
[6:45] use the brakes.
[6:47] >> [laughter]
[6:50] >> The whole idea is not to use the brakes.
[6:52] >> All right. Is there anything else you
[6:53] want to talk about, Mark?
[6:54] >> Yeah.
[6:57] The V8. It's great.
[6:59] >> Did you talk about it?
[7:00] >> I did. I talked about it at length. It's
[7:01] been around for 10 years or 15 years.
[7:03] >> paying attention.
[7:05] >> Look, you've probably seen like 40 of
[7:06] our videos in the Durango at this time.
[7:08] >> No, this this this brand exists because
[7:10] of this.
[7:11] >> Yeah, the V8.
[7:12] >> This entire experience is why you buy a
[7:16] Dodge, right? You're You don't care
[7:18] about anything else. I can get a V8, uh,
[7:21] souped-up
[7:22] I'm going to
[7:23] get get drunk and drive through the
[7:25] front of a liquor store in this thing.
[7:28] That's what I'm going to do.
[7:29] That's what I'm going to do in this
[7:30] thing. And then I'm going to hire a
[7:31] lawyer to get me out of it so I can do
[7:33] it again.
[7:36] Okay?
[7:37] >> You can't use any of that. [laughter]
[7:39] >> Why not?
[7:40] >> Dude, but why do you think you can't use
[7:42] any [laughter] of that?
[7:45] Uh
[7:46] >> All right, fine.
[7:47] >> [music]
[7:51] >> Now, despite us having some fun during
[7:53] the drive, we've done an asinine amount
[7:55] of videos on the Durango. And all the
[7:57] things that were good about it are still
[7:59] good about it. They're just giving you
[8:01] more. You know, the adaptive dampers do
[8:03] a really good job for the price point on
[8:05] the street and if you want to have some
[8:06] fun, it doesn't feel like a massively
[8:09] understeer prone vehicle. And you know,
[8:12] the V8 makes a massive difference. Now,
[8:13] clearly, you know, this brand has some
[8:16] of the worst timing ever and it's not
[8:18] really their fault. They bring back the
[8:20] V8 and then our gas prices in Illinois
[8:22] are over $6 a gallon for premium. It
[8:24] just seems like they can't catch a
[8:25] break. But clearly, you're not buying a
[8:27] V8 because you wanted Toyota hybrid
[8:30] levels of fuel economy. You're buying it
[8:32] for a completely different reason and
[8:33] that's why the Durango continues and has
[8:35] sold for quite
[8:37] uh quite well for a long period of time.
[8:39] It is that known quantity and I
[8:41] understand why people buy it and you're
[8:43] going to really enjoy it. Now, clearly,
[8:45] the used market is going to be amazing.
[8:47] So, if you need one of these for more
[8:49] affordable, you're going to find it. But
[8:50] if you're also looking for a deal that
[8:52] is basically a loaded three-row SUV for
[8:56] 50 grand, this is very, very, very hard
[8:59] to argue and we appreciate that it
[9:01] exists in a world of boring SUVs. Thanks
[9:04] for watching. We'll see you next video.
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