There is a Durango Hellcat for 2023, as a result of Dodge likes promoting vehicles, although some patrons of the 2021 Durango Hellcat aren’t blissful about it. Seven of them have now sued Stellantis, Dodge’s mother or father firm, as a result of they are saying they wouldn’t have paid a lot for his or her 2021 Hellcats (which bought out fairly rapidly) in the event that they’d identified one other was coming, and even by no means purchased them in any respect.
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The go well with was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Delaware. The Durango Hellcat homeowners are recognized as Stacy Phillips, Lawrence Willis, Eli Negron III, Christian Papana, Jason Van Genderen, Mark Hollingsworth, and Jeffrey G. Heintz, Sr., all of whom purchased their Hellcats for as much as $114,225.
The coronary heart of their grievance is that Dodge initially insisted that the 2021 Durango Hellcat can be the one Durango Hellcat, earlier than Dodge determined that it wouldn’t be, thus devaluing 2021 Durango Hellcats, round 3,000 of which had been bought, in response to the go well with. The plaintiffs accuse Stellantis of unjust enrichment and false promoting, amongst different issues. From their grievance:
In or about July, 2020, Defendants introduced that they might be producing and promoting for 2021 solely, a one 12 months restricted manufacturing run of the Dodge Durango Hellcat Vehicle. Dodge Chief Executive Officer, Tim Kuniskis acknowledged in or about July 2, 2020 on the launch of the 2021 mannequin line, that the Dodge Hellcat can be a single 12 months run for the 2021 mannequin 12 months after which will probably be gone. In that broadly watched and closely lined promotional press launch on July 2, 2020, to introduce the Dodge 2021 line of automobiles, he touted varied options of the Hellcat Vehicle, together with that the Hellcat possessed 710 horsepower, was “the most powerful SUV in the world,” can carry extra, tow extra, and go from zero to sixty in 3.5 seconds. He advised customers that Dodge was solely producing and promoting a single 12 months run of the Hellcat, which might be MY 2021 Hellcat. Kuniskis represented that “[t]he 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 have one shot [to buy one].” Official press supplies created by the Company made the identical or comparable statements.
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The Durango Hellcat homeowners are additionally asking the court docket to grant the go well with class-action standing, to use to different Durango Hellcat homeowners. They additionally need an unspecified quantity of compensatory and punitive damages, they need an injunction stopping Dodge from making new Durango Hellcats, and so they need their authorized charges lined. All of which looks as if a bit a lot however that is what occurs whenever you piss off homeowners of Durango Hellcats.
A Stellantis spokesperson stated in a press release that they don’t focus on energetic litigation.
You can learn the total civil grievance right here:
Source: jalopnik.com