Trucks in general to purchase has become like a mortgage payment

Tell the actual truth that Dodge dealers are putting insane mark ups on Chargers, Challengers, and pickups. No one wants to pay 10-20k over sticker.

So over-priced cars aren’t selling? That’s not a suprise

Payments for new cars are 1,000 a month that’s crazy

$100 k for a decently equipped 1/2 ton truck is just plain stupid

Time to go to these dealers and do what they did to us, the consumers, during the pandemic. They wanted an extra $10-$30K over the sticker price, then, now we want a $10-$30K off the sticker price to even consider these vehicles.

A new Tundra payment (sr5 4wd) is more than my mortgage

The demise of Dodge brought to you by STELLANTIS ..... The Hornet 😂

Ram 2500/3500 is unnecessarily luxurious/expensive for it's primary buyers: Tradesmen and haulers.

Prices are too high for all vehicles now. Last vehicle I bought was all most $30,000 in 2016, can't afford another now, in retirement. I remember when my dad bought his first Chevrolet Pickup in 1941, cost $730. No extras, basic vehicle. I remember him making side boards for it so he could haul a few sheep. How do I know, I have his tax returns.

Chrysler intentionally stockpiled the 300, Charger and Challenger to tide them over until the new model's production is ramped up. They blew it with the Hornet though, it's way too expensive for what you get especially given their reputation.

Maserati = Italian for 'endless money pit" in the USA

I can afford a new truck and a new car, but I drive a beautiful 04 Excursion and a fantastic 05 Lexus LS430. I've always bought beautiful low mileage high end cars and trucks after they've depreciated. Left my money in investments to make more money.

The thing they don't tell you about electric cars is that they also have a substantial carbon footprint. WTF?

I would hate to be a Chrysler Jeep Dodge dealer!!!

Jaguar just announced they are dropping their entire product line, stopped production and will focused only on +$100k vehicles so good luck with your stock Jag dealers.

The reason vehicles like the RAMS and other domestic products are that the manufacturers have decided to mostly build their top models to maximize their profits which are very expensive and most people cannot afford. Hence inventories are high. Jeep has done the same with their Wagoneer and Grand Cherokee models.

Stellantis is KILLING it here, poor sales related to high prices!

Auto insurance rates are killing the auto dealer sales

For me any Stellantis vehicles don’t come across as reliable or high quality. Basically like any Italian car.

The problem with the Dodge hornet, is its seemingly awesome? I like them, but they're about 18K overvalued. It's a $25000 Suv at best.

Chrysler/Dodge has forgotten that they’re a blue collar car company. Their vehicle prices are simply too high.

cars in general regardless of brand is now unaffordable.

I notice you have been leaving out the rediculous stupid price Stellanis is asking for the Ram pick ups.

The crazy thing is CDJR dealers arent being aggressive enough to move their rotting inventory. 2023 300s have been sitting on my local dealer for a couple months and show meager discounts. $54k they need $15k off

I was looking at a Nissan Pathfinder till the prices jumped over 4 grand in 2024 and the value of my Murano dropped $8,000 Hope all these car dealers go broke.. Interest rates and overpricing are their doom

I live in Metro-Detroit and I have never seen a Dodge Hornet on the road.

I am not a young person. But I was always told in my youth, if you have to borrow money to buy a vehicle, you cant afford it. I save up, buy a good used vehicle that is cheap to insure and maintain with low mileage. I am not trying to impress anyone with how much debt I carry.

The problem with Dodge, Ram, Chrysler and yes even Jeep, is Stellantis itself. The huge price increases have been put in place to fund their BEV program (which itself is destined for failure). I have a 2020 Ram 2500 Limited MegaCab with the 6.4 Hemi V8, 4.10 rear end, air suspension and lots of other goodies. I use it to tow a 30' 9000 pound travel trailer, which it does very well. The sticker was about 77k in 2020. The same vehicle would now be over 100k. That is an unsupportable/unjustifiable cost increase. Stellantis has NOT invested back in Chrysler or much in Dodge. Ram has had a small amount of investment, and even Jeep has not been shown much love by Stellantis. It is obvious that they don't understand the American market. There is a reason Fiat does not sell well here. And that Hornet, well the sales numbers speak loud and clear. Dodge painted itself into a corner by going all in on the "Brotherhood of Muscle" campaign. And muscle was not the problem. It was moving out of anything other than muscle that was the problem. Giving up the brand equity with the Dodge Grand Caravan nameplate was pure stupidity. There should have been a lower cost version of the Pacifica that was a Dodge. Car companies need to be run by engineers that are first and foremost car guys. And quality should always be of higher importance over short term profit. Cheap plastics don't really save much money, but the damage they do to brand reputation is immense!

I'll keep 1995 Ford F-350 Power Stroke Diesel it's paid for

When a car manufacturer makes JUNK and sells them for over $50,000, you get hundreds of unsold vehicles! Notice that you DON'T see a Toyota, Honda, Hyundai/Kia, or Subaru on this list???

Dodge prices are high and the quality low. Most of their trucks sticker for $70-100k. Hopefully Ford learned a lesson with the Mach-Me

The Hornet is a rebadged Alpha Romeo SUV.

I’ll wait till the car dealerships are bankrupt.

I wouldn’t take an Electric car if it was free….

Last call for dodge challenger and charger. With. 477 days of inventory before depleation

I honestly didn't know the Dodge Hornet existed until I saw one parked the other day. It's a great looking vehicle, so I looked up the price. Holy Cow! They are in the $50k's! This would be a great vehicle in the high $20k's low $30k's, I thought. Who would buy this with all the competition in that high price range? Obviously, not many people. 😂

Absolutely true I got one years left to pay on my car and wouldn’t have new car I’ll drive mine till falls apart fix it and drive it some more and you couldn’t pay me enough to drive an e/car

Dodge Challenger,,,,use to have a 2013 RT. Transmission problems at 8 k. Since it was warranty, the dealership took over a month to work on it. Three months later failed again.. Traded in for almost same price I paid for for a 4Runner. Couldn’t be happier

As a frequent flyer, I was picking up rental’s three or four times a month. Almost all rentals were new with less than 2k miles. Once in a while I would get a higher mileage rental, but most of the time it was in a foreign country. Out of all the rentals over the years, the only brand I had to have replaced was Chrysler/dodge. And my rentals included Mitsubishi, Isuzu, citron, Renault, and even a Lada.

I used to be a mopar guy through and through. I haven't owned one in over a decade. They just have nothing to offer and their prices are insane!

As soon as Stellantis took over FCA the first order of business was to shut down Dodges SRT division. They made it clear they have no love for American muscle car drivers. Why they keep shoving EV’s down peoples throats when they are not practical, expensive and just don’t go far. Discontinuing the Charger and Challenger was a huge mistake.

Well one problem with the Dodge Challenger, Charger anf 300 is that they have not had major redesign in over 10 years. People tend to forget about that fact. People like new updated designs especially in muscle cars. However Fiat - Stellantis was too cheap to redesign this car. This is the same with the Camaro. Its had the same basic design since 2009. You can not tell me that if GM gave the Camaro a completely different maybe more retro design people would not buy it.

Hey. Maybe I can shed some light on the reason why these heavy duty trucks aren’t selling. I’m a truck driver. And truck loads are down bad. We aren’t making any money. Insurance is too high. Gas is too high. And loads are cheap. Almost $1.50 per mile. I wouldn’t get into this market because dispatchers are being cheap. And these dealer markups aren’t making any sense. Plus they are trying to sell you old tech in new trucks. It makes no sense.

Read about battery degradation in extreme environments.

Awesome job !

The Big Three are losing their pants the dealer lots are full of cars meanwhile they're saying the sales are up! The markup is so high they're still making money but there's no big sales. Boycott them all

Gone are the days of a worker's truck. So many unnecessary bells & whistles that makes it an expensive luxury car. 100,00.00+ for a PICKUP??????

The pandemic had 2020 models backed up and the manufacturers habit of inflating prices saw huge spikes in every model since 2021

Best Robot Narrator voice Yet !

Never heard of the Dodge Hornet before.

From automotive mechanics perspective, All Japanese cars are the best in quality and design, especially if you need to keep it for a long period of time.🚘🚘

LOL what can go wrong with buying an Alfa Romeo wearing a Dodge badge... Mmmh...

It sounds like Dodge is going to go the way of the Dinosaurs !!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the great report!

Ayyy cool to see this one! Love the content!

i'm a dodge guy. more specifically a chrysler guy. i own a 99 300M in showroom condition at 85K miles' and an 06 town and country still going strong at 227K miles. i've owned many dodge chrysler and jeep products over the past 42 years. simply put Stellantis is killing chrysler corp and until they no longer own the brand i will not purchase Italian rebranded garbage. in fact i bought my wife a subaru forester and have been extremely happy with it. so it just may be that i switch to subaru in the future.

The only Dodge Chargers, Challengers and Chrysler 300s that people are buying are *used-fresh off the auction block* where banks sell them after repossessions. *Only police departments in the US and Canada* have been single handedly keeping Stellantis afloat *by buying fleet vehicles for their cruisers* the past few years. Before that it was *Ford Crown Victoria* and Chevy Impala/Caprice/Taurus. 60% of Dodge Chargers were bought by police, 15% by regular public and 15% by dumb criminals/suspects in literally every other crime. The last 10% are still on dealer lots waiting to be sold. 😂

I watch Ray and Zach from CarEdge every day. Great source for automotive sales info. The Crown (its close twin, looks-wise) will best the Maserati in sales.

I recently had my reliable, paid off 2007 car detailed and repainted. Looks like a new car to me!

50-70k for a truck? lmao

Renault introduces the new 5...magnificent...Stellantis?

How can dealers mark up MSRP??? I don't understand this.

Is there a high insurance cost to the charger challenger mustang cars? If there is that can't help.

About 10-15 years ago when many Baby Boomers were in their 60s, recently retired and with money to spend on one more nostalgic "summer of 69" blow out, the original and reincarnated muscle cars evoking their youth became very popular. Now many Baby Boomers are in their 70s or later and owning an overpriced muscle car is simply no longer practical. Also with the economy soft and inflation eating into their pensions, such expensive follies are also not making sense anymore.

Ford Mach E's sitting on the lot are incredibly overpriced.

I have a Dodge Hornet. What a mistake. It's has a ton of electrical issues that took 74 days at the dealer and 6 updates to fix. It is fun to drive, though.

The MAIN reason the Ram trucks are not selling is they are OVERPRICED. I went into a dealer and was blown away by the pricing, I'm amazed they sell anything.

Thank you Brandon. We can't afford to purchase any vehicle when we can't afford food, electricity, gas for our cars and gas to heat our homes.

Not enough range biggest problem

Find the Ram 2500 hard to believe. I was shopping for one and the dealers within a 200 mile radius from me had little or no 2500s or 3500s. 1500s yes. Plenty. Ended up driving over 4 hours to get one.

A lot of would-be EV buyers want a smaller car and, with the Chevy Bolt gone, can't get one. Bestselling EV from a legacy automaker, sold to a waiting list right up until they closed the order books, and GM discontinues it to rush into the $50,000 midsize crossover and $70,000 "lifestyle" pickup segments everyone else did - never mind the demand, think of the margin!

Maybe if dealers weren't so greedy it wouldn't be so bad. But they want to keep their private jets and yachts running

I've had 3 Dodge's in my lifetime and with our 2010 jeep wrangler we would never buy another dodge product just two many issues...

But yeah, I agree with a lot of the comments here. The mark up on some of these vehicles doesn't even make sense in this hyper inflated economy. Work trucks payments cost more ($100,000+/- a few) then some rent and mortgages. Not to mention the full coverage insurance required on top of your new car payment. Better be living out of it if you're in the lower middle class. It's insane.

It seem like everybody and their moma want a charger and challenger!! One problem.. TO DAM HIGH!!!! 😢😢😢

It's time for real, affordable vehicles, without breaking your budget

I’ll never buy an EV

Question the quality of a jag? Ya think?

I don't get why Challengers are sitting on lots because Stellantis wants to shift to EVs. MrPittman's comments makes more sense that dealers are marking them up. Some dealers were getting in trouble for doing this during the shortage because (I assume) it reduced the number of cars sold, but maybe Dodge doesn't care about this anymore. A lesser factor may be people don't want these if they be having a higher chance of getting stolen and carjacked.

because we're eating cereal for dinner because of this economy.

You talk about the spike in gas prices and show a pump with a $4 price. Here in Calif its almost $6 a gallon again. I put in 10.5 gallons yesterday and it ran me $61. FJB.

Ummm, the reasons stated in the video for the huge supply - all of them are off base or not the primary reason - all of them should start with "price, price, and price". Even if you pick the undesirable versions (I suspect the bulk of the Challengers/Chargers in the queue are V6 powered) it's all about price. And frankly, no matter how Dodge adjusts the prices, the dealers are still trying to hose customers, so - in the lots they will sit. The US model of selling cars is outdated and broken. But thanks to powerful dealer lobbying groups and laws in each of the 50 states to protect the franchises, I don't see it changing any time soon.

Well maybe lower the prices? 👀

They're all over priced .😢 nobody Will buy them.

Well, let’s just face it, Dodge Chrysler is going in the crapper.

I’m surprised the Jeep truck is not on this list, saw a 2024 with a 15,000 deduction on the sticker price. I love my 4xE Willy’s though.

No mention that the Dodge Charger ,challenger and 300 was over produced to span a possible long strike.And Stillantis jacked up the prices as did the dealers.Not to men interest rates

jagwire?

I really like my ionic Hyundai hybrid.

Sad, I'm looking for a white 2023 or 2024 Ford Exployer XLT, nothing on the lots.

Stellantis biggest issue is that they’re making cars that no one wants and getting rid of the ones they do. Chrysler needs to pull out of stellantis merger and get rid of poor quality brought by fiat and bring back hits like the aspen, keep the 300 and redesign it as well as a coupe version and introduce a entry level model. Dodge is a sport brand but did really well when it was a volume brand. In the 2000’s you had caravan grand caravan, journey, Durango, charger, challenger, avenger, dart, magnum, stratus, intrepid. 2000-2011 for most models listed. SRT should be an option on all models.

Dodge…. Ouch😮

Stellantis has lost their mind dropping the challenger?????? Americans don't want EV's and the ones that do, but Teslas......not a Johnny come lately who's range is far inferior?

Same here in the U.K. New E.Vs are bought by companies to offset corporation tax. Private buyers only accounts for about 15% of purchases. When these company cars are three years old the companies offload them to second hand market. Big big problem here as they take on average 9months for dealers to sell. That being the case, many dealers will not buy used EVs to sell on, plus EV insurance is about twice that for an ICE version of the same cars. The market here is full of used EVs that very few people want. Prices amount to about 80% less than the retail price after about two years.

Wow... Stellantis did not read the market. That is far to many cars sitting on their dealer lots. Time for rebates.

Everybody wants the trucks. 80-110k , nah bruh. Nah

Can we please quit calling the crossover station wagons "SUV"s.

Production of Jaguar XF and XJ models: Pune, India. Production of Jaguar XE and XF models: Changshu, China.Feb 22

The 300, the charger and the challenger have stopped production in Brampton Ont as they have closed the plant.