Dodge will retire its long-running Durango SUV after 2024 and change it with a 3-row SUV with “an all-new, trendy look,” in line with Motor Pattern’s Alisa Priddle. The Durango’s alternative is not going to get an all-new identify. It can resurrect one from the corporate’s previous: the Dodge Stealth.

The unique Stealth was a sport coupe launched for the 1991 mannequin 12 months and phased out after 1996. It was a Mitsubishi 3000GT with a Dodge badge and competed with the Mitsubishi out there.

Priddle predicts the Stealth identify will reappear on a 3-row SUV constructed on the identical platform because the Jeep Grand Cherokee. That leaves room for a bigger SUV constructed on the identical platform because the Jeep Wagoneer. Priddle writes that one will come later and will put on the Durango identify.

At this time’s Durango is a automotive that divides critics and consumers. Our knowledgeable reviewers give it simply 3.1 stars, whereas shoppers give it 4.7. It’s recognized for energy. Whereas most producers have moved away from V8 engines in midsize SUVs, Dodge presents a alternative of three. Essentially the most highly effective, discovered within the Durango SRT Hellcat mannequin, places down a jaw-dropping 710 horsepower.

However final 12 months, the Durango fell out of the checklist of the 25 best-selling SUVs in America. Dodge wants successful to take its place. The Durango stays its second best-selling product. However a lot of its present lineup is brief on time.

The corporate, lengthy recognized for brawn and muscle, is on the verge of a makeover that might threaten the picture that has made it profitable.

Its two large rear-wheel drive automobiles, the Charger and Challenger, are on a farewell tour in 2023. Every will get a collection of particular editions to say goodbye, however they’ll disappear after 2023. Dodge hasn’t proven off the manufacturing fashions that may take their place. However the firm has debuted an electrical muscle automotive in idea kind that reveals its future design path.

The Stealth is not going to be electrical, Priddle says. As a substitute, “The brand new Hurricane 3.0-liter twin-turbo I-6 will make up for the lack of an obtainable Hemi V-8.”