2027 Dodge Durango First Look: The Hemi-Powered Holdout Returns
Key takeaways
- The third-generation Durango is old enough to drive and still hanging on.
- It’s rare for an automaker to keep a vehicle around for more than 10 years, let alone more than 15.
- No More V-6?That would be the disappearance of the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 and rear-wheel drive from the GT.
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The third-generation Durango is old enough to drive and still hanging on.
It’s rare for an automaker to keep a vehicle around for more than 10 years, let alone more than 15. Yet that’s exactly the case with the Dodge Durango. Introduced for 2010, the third-generation Durango remains Dodge’s only midsize three-row SUV, and it carries into the 2027 model year with one apparent major change.
No More V-6?That would be the disappearance of the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 and rear-wheel drive from the GT. We’ve seen this before: The Pentastar was initially dropped from the 2026 Durango only for it to return back later along with the RWD option. Stellantis has not said whether that will happen again for 2027.