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HEMI® Takeover: Dodge Shocks Media with V8-Only 2026 Durango Lineup

HEMI® Takeover: Dodge Shocks Media with V8-Only 2026 Durango Lineup​

No More V6s—Every 2026 Dodge Durango Now Comes Standard with a HEMI V8​


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Dodge dropped a bombshell today at Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge, and it wasn’t just the roaring burnout sessions or the debut of the 2026 Durango SRT HELLCAT Jailbreak. In a move no one saw coming, Dodge CEO Matt McAlear announced that every single 2026 Dodge Durango—GT, R/T, and SRT HELLCAT—will now come standard with a HEMI® V8 engine. That’s right. No more V6s. No more wondering, “Does that thing got a HEMI?” The answer is now a loud and proud yes.

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HEMI® Takeover: Dodge Shocks Media with V8-Only 2026 Durango Lineup

Dodge surprises with the HEMI® takeover: every 2026 Durango comes with a V8 engine. Discover the bold announcement now!
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I guess you guys know better than Tim Kuniskis then, because he's pretty much following everything I've laid out.

Just so we know what your scorecard is - where were you on Tavares? Manley? Sergio?

I was a huge Sergio supporter - he was a true automotive enthusiast that understood the value of the US market, was absolutely correct that for non-enthusiast segments that powertrain development costs could be shared among OEMs, but invested heavily in specialized segments that yielded margin. Manley was a viceroy, a hired gun. Despised Tavares, predicted it was going to be a disaster (check my post history) - I was absolutely correct. I put my faith trust and full support behind Tim - he gets it.
 
Ryan said:
Product development, but not in the automotive industry clearly.
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Is someone here Claiming they work at a Tier1 or for STLA in product development?

Y'all better have your resume ready then. There is ZERO tolerance from OEMs on posting inside information on public forum. All the way down to the plant level product engineers. Having been a Tier1 Engineer for over a decade Monitor and chuckle was the most you could do. A person was walked out of their job for posting a Allpar... Find a better way to entertain oneself.

One of my Apples that fell close is now and she wouldn't even tell me what was happening at her plant. But just released this week.

Maybe someone should take this offline.... rulering exercise in unbecoming.
 
TripleT said:
Is someone here Claiming they work at a Tier1 or for STLA in product development?

Y'all better have your resume ready then. There is ZERO tolerance from OEMs on posting inside information on public forum. All the way down to the plant level product engineers. Having been a Tier1 Engineer for over a decade Monitor and chuckle was the most you could do. A person was walked out of their job for posting a Allpar... Find a better way to entertain oneself.

One of my Apples that fell close is now and she wouldn't even tell me what was happening at her plant. But just released this week.

Maybe someone should take this offline.... rulering exercise in unbecoming.
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I haven’t seen that anyone has claimed that. We do have a few non-reputable people running around here acting like they have insider knowledge though.
 
It's true - I live on Mars, peering through a telescope, trying to discern what STLA will do next. It helps pass the time.

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cygnus said:
I guess you guys know better than Tim Kuniskis then, because he's pretty much following everything I've laid out.

Just so we know what your scorecard is - where were you on Tavares? Manley? Sergio?

I was a huge Sergio supporter - he was a true automotive enthusiast that understood the value of the US market, was absolutely correct that for non-enthusiast segments that powertrain development costs could be shared among OEMs, but invested heavily in specialized segments that yielded margin. Manley was a viceroy, a hired gun. Despised Tavares, predicted it was going to be a disaster (check my post history) - I was absolutely correct. I put my faith trust and full support behind Tim - he gets it.
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Sergio was good, and wasn’t. He kick started the fire that got us into Stellantis, and he can own that one. He was so pro-merger that it was sickening

For all the good he did and ushered in to Chrysler as a whole, he did some really stupid things as well.
 
scatpack_69 said:
Sergio was good, and wasn’t. He kick started the fire that got us into Stellantis, and he can own that one. He was so pro-merger that it was sickening

For all the good he did and ushered in to Chrysler as a whole, he did some really stupid things as well.
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Agreed.
 
Ryan said:
I haven’t seen that anyone has claimed that. We do have a few non-reputable people running around here acting like they have insider knowledge though.
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Welp it fun to pretend. Anyone with actual inside knowledge should be careful, they take the stuff pretty seriously.
 
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