[Auto] 2021 Dodge Durango Hellcat Owners Are Not Happy There’s a 2023 Version

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Dodge wasn't bashful about promoting the 710-hp 2021 Durango Hellcat SUV, telling potential customers they had only "one shot" at getting behind the wheel of the fastest team bus idling in the dropoff lane.

Buyers were understandably frustrated when Dodge said last year that it would bring the Durango Hellcat back as a 2023 model.

Seven original customers have now filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, asking for damages in excess of $5 million.

A class-action lawsuit was filed last week against the idea of the 2023 Dodge Durango Hellcat. Okay, technically, the lawsuit alleges that Dodge used "false and deceptive advertising and marketing" back in 2020 when it told potential buyers that the 2021 Durango Hellcat would see the only year of production but then reversed course in late 2022 when it announced the 2023 Durango Hellcat with nearly identical specs.

 

The lawsuit is asking for in excess of $5 million in damages, citing a few instances where Dodge representatives made claims that sounded like there wouldn't be any more after that year. The big one? Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis said in a Dodge promotional video that "the Hellcat Durango will be a single-model-year run. When we turn the order books over to the '22 model year, the Durango Hellcat will be gone. So you've only got one shot [to buy one]."

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