2026 Dodge Durango | V8 Only, What Could Go Wrong?

[00:09] The 2026 Dodge Durango. If you followed

[00:12] any of this brand's marketing, you'll

[00:13] know that the V8 is back and they're

[00:15] going to put it in everything that they

[00:16] can. They're pulling it out of their

[00:18] janitor's closets, their basements, you

[00:20] name it, so you can have one. For '26,

[00:23] the Durango now comes standard with it.

[00:25] And if you get the RT 392 that I'm

[00:28] sitting in,

[00:30] you are getting the kitchen sink and

[00:32] more power. It makes about 30% more

[00:35] power and around 20% more torque, which

[00:38] means you're pushing nearly 500

[00:40] horsepower and this thing is fast in a

[00:42] straight line. And they're going to tell

[00:43] you it's track inspired, which clearly

[00:46] you're not going to take it on track

[00:48] like we did, but I'm going to tell you a

[00:49] few things about this. The main thing is

[00:51] if you if you wanted a V8 in a three-row

[00:54] SUV, you had to get your

[00:57] the Germans to spend around $100,000 to

[00:59] do so and then having about half of its

[01:02] value eviscerated in 3 years.

[01:05] The 392 RT starts at about $50,000.

[01:10] And what you're getting here is you're

[01:12] getting fully leather interior, full

[01:14] leather accents, you're getting the

[01:16] suede headliner, you're getting a really

[01:18] good audio system, a ton of usable

[01:20] space, and a known quantity. The Durango

[01:23] has been out forever. Their V8 they've

[01:26] been milking forever and

[01:29] the thing is they've depreciated it.

[01:31] They've depreciated this, the tooling,

[01:33] everything to make the drivetrain, so

[01:35] they can drive down the price. It's not

[01:37] that they just magically lowered it. I

[01:39] think they figured out how to package

[01:40] this to give people what they actually

[01:42] want is a fun three-row SUV that has the

[01:46] space for kids, things, and it can

[01:48] actually tow. We're talking around like

[01:50] 8,700 lb of towing capacity. And to put

[01:53] that in perspective, you know, some of

[01:55] the bigger SUVs are pushing like 9,000

[01:57] lb of towing and you're getting a

[01:59] a nearly sorted out as much as you can

[02:02] get a sorted out Dodge with some

[02:04] physical controls, things that they know

[02:06] people want that you're not going to get

[02:08] tired of having every single day. And

[02:10] again, at that price point, that's why

[02:14] you would consider this over so many

[02:16] other vehicles that if you want some

[02:18] character, you want to have a little bit

[02:19] of fun, you want to have that V8 sound,

[02:22] there's nobody else doing this and this

[02:24] is what this brand is really good at.

[02:26] And if they can sweat some of the detail

[02:27] work of getting their quality back up

[02:30] and some of their attention to detail

[02:31] back where it needs to be, at this price

[02:33] point, it's it's really unrivaled. So,

[02:36] if that's what you're looking for,

[02:38] you're going to love this. Jack and I

[02:40] are going to take [laughter] this out on

[02:41] track briefly and have kind of a fun

[02:43] conversation and meaningless

[02:45] conversation about what it's like to

[02:47] drive.

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[04:17] >> Last time I was in this,

[04:19] I did watch this thing drive away after

[04:21] my third divorce.

[04:23] >> Thank god Mike got a V8.

[04:24] >> But I'm here with you now. Everything's

[04:25] way better. [laughter]

[04:31] >> [music]

[04:35] >> Durango RT Mark 392

[04:38] 500 500 horsepower. It's got less

[04:42] understeer than that up to we just got

[04:43] out of.

[04:45] Honestly, this thing hustles really

[04:47] really well.

[04:48] I was talking to poor Chris who can't

[04:51] speak to us because he's in the back

[04:52] seat. Oh my god, dude.

[04:54] >> [laughter]

[04:56] >> Hey,

[04:57] I told you when I brought Joey to

[04:58] school, his friends would talk about,

[05:00] you know,

[05:02] "Joey, does your dad have the 392?" I

[05:04] said, "Yeah, I got the 392."

[05:06] >> the credit score?

[05:07] >> Yes, it is.

[05:08] >> [laughter]

[05:08] >> And that's what happened. She took all

[05:10] my didn't pay off the credit

[05:11] cards, and now I'm stuck with all this

[05:13] debt, and I don't even have this. So,

[05:15] it's great to be able to drive it again.

[05:17] >> Well, thankfully for you, this RT 392 is

[05:21] pretty affordable. I believe it costs

[05:22] less than $60,000 when you can start

[05:24] ordering one.

[05:25] >> Well, what other V8 SUVs exist?

[05:28] >> Other than the X5, the GLC or GLE,

[05:32] the Q7 in this price category, none of

[05:35] them. What I was saying earlier to you,

[05:37] Mark, Oh my god, dude. What I was saying

[05:39] to you earlier is that

[05:41] this

[05:43] because it's on the older, very old

[05:46] uh, platform that was originally sourced

[05:48] from Mercedes under Daimler,

[05:50] and the RAM are probably the two

[05:52] Stellantis products I actually think are

[05:54] genuinely well-sorted vehicles and

[05:57] competitive in their class. Like,

[06:01] dynamically,

[06:02] this V8 has a ton of character. The 392

[06:05] hasn't changed in 400 years, and it's

[06:07] great for it.

[06:09] The ZF 8-speed does it Jesus Christ.

[06:12] >> it way too much sense, pal. Nobody gives

[06:14] a about this. My wife didn't care

[06:16] about any of this stuff.

[06:17] >> [laughter]

[06:17] >> She wanted the 392,

[06:20] and I told her I would get it. I worked

[06:22] three different jobs. Joey went to a

[06:24] private school. Guess what? Now she's

[06:26] got another kid on the way with this new

[06:28] guy, and they got a free car out of me.

[06:31] >> Well, Mark, I'm sorry you're sad, but

[06:34] the drivetrain in this thing is great.

[06:35] It handles well. It's double wishbone

[06:37] car. The all-wheel drive systems are

[06:38] good, and the brakes, despite being a

[06:40] house, have not faded out yet.

[06:43] >> did. It faded out.

[06:44] >> Oh, it did?

[06:44] >> Yeah, no. Well, then we'll just we won't

[06:45] use the brakes.

[06:47] >> [laughter]

[06:50] >> The whole idea is not to use the brakes.

[06:52] >> All right. Is there anything else you

[06:53] want to talk about, Mark?

[06:54] >> Yeah.

[06:57] The V8. It's great.

[06:59] >> Did you talk about it?

[07:00] >> I did. I talked about it at length. It's

[07:01] been around for 10 years or 15 years.

[07:03] >> paying attention.

[07:05] >> Look, you've probably seen like 40 of

[07:06] our videos in the Durango at this time.

[07:08] >> No, this this this brand exists because

[07:10] of this.

[07:11] >> Yeah, the V8.

[07:12] >> This entire experience is why you buy a

[07:16] Dodge, right? You're You don't care

[07:18] about anything else. I can get a V8, uh,

[07:21] souped-up

[07:22] I'm going to

[07:23] get get drunk and drive through the

[07:25] front of a liquor store in this thing.

[07:28] That's what I'm going to do.

[07:29] That's what I'm going to do in this

[07:30] thing. And then I'm going to hire a

[07:31] lawyer to get me out of it so I can do

[07:33] it again.

[07:36] Okay?

[07:37] >> You can't use any of that. [laughter]

[07:39] >> Why not?

[07:40] >> Dude, but why do you think you can't use

[07:42] any [laughter] of that?

[07:45] Uh

[07:46] >> All right, fine.

[07:47] >> [music]

[07:51] >> Now, despite us having some fun during

[07:53] the drive, we've done an asinine amount

[07:55] of videos on the Durango. And all the

[07:57] things that were good about it are still

[07:59] good about it. They're just giving you

[08:01] more. You know, the adaptive dampers do

[08:03] a really good job for the price point on

[08:05] the street and if you want to have some

[08:06] fun, it doesn't feel like a massively

[08:09] understeer prone vehicle. And you know,

[08:12] the V8 makes a massive difference. Now,

[08:13] clearly, you know, this brand has some

[08:16] of the worst timing ever and it's not

[08:18] really their fault. They bring back the

[08:20] V8 and then our gas prices in Illinois

[08:22] are over $6 a gallon for premium. It

[08:24] just seems like they can't catch a

[08:25] break. But clearly, you're not buying a

[08:27] V8 because you wanted Toyota hybrid

[08:30] levels of fuel economy. You're buying it

[08:32] for a completely different reason and

[08:33] that's why the Durango continues and has

[08:35] sold for quite

[08:37] uh quite well for a long period of time.

[08:39] It is that known quantity and I

[08:41] understand why people buy it and you're

[08:43] going to really enjoy it. Now, clearly,

[08:45] the used market is going to be amazing.

[08:47] So, if you need one of these for more

[08:49] affordable, you're going to find it. But

[08:50] if you're also looking for a deal that

[08:52] is basically a loaded three-row SUV for

[08:56] 50 grand, this is very, very, very hard

[08:59] to argue and we appreciate that it

[09:01] exists in a world of boring SUVs. Thanks

[09:04] for watching. We'll see you next video.

[09:07] >> [music]

[09:10] >> Woah.

[09:13] Woah.

[09:14] >> [music]

[09:16] >> Woah.