10 More States Will Now Allow Durango Hellcat Sales, Dodge Says

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The national authorities whitethorn now beryllium happy to let automakers pollute arsenic overmuch arsenic they want, but astatine slightest for now, California's emissions rules still use successful California, arsenic good arsenic successful nan different states that travel CARB. For astir automakers, that isn't a problem, but that is a problem for the Dodge Durango Hellcat. Its 710-horsepower, supercharged 6.2-liter V8 motor doesn't meet nan latest CARB requirements, which intends it couldn't beryllium sold successful 17 states. But as nan Drive reports, 10 states person now apparently decided to let nan Durango Hellcat aft all. 

In a caller statement, Stellantis said:

In October, nan Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat was approved to unfastened for orders successful 10 further CARB states, including Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia. It is still presently prohibited for waste successful 7 states, down from 17 successful August 2025. We will proceed to activity done argumentation changes and expect support to unfastened for orders successful each 50 states by nan extremity of this year. We scheme to unfastened for orders of nan Durango R/T 392 successful Q1 of 2026.

So if you unrecorded successful 1 of those states and request a 6,000-pound SUV that gets 13 mpg, past congratulations. You're free to bargain yourself a marque caller 15-year-old Dodge Durango Hellcat. And from nan sound of it, Dodge thinks it will beryllium allowed to waste nan Durango Hellcat successful each 50 states successful little than six weeks. 

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Does that mean those 10 states are abandoning CARB regulations? At a clip erstwhile everyone other seems to beryllium giving successful to Republicans' demands, it wouldn't beryllium surprising, but I'm not seeing thing officially confirming that. And erstwhile nan Drive tried to inquire astir it, they apparently couldn't get a clear reply arsenic to what had changed. Did they alteration nan Durango Hellcat itself, aliases did they unafraid immoderate benignant of ineligible exception? Are each states abandoning CARB, including California? No 1 tin say, apparently.

For now, though, nan only states that still won't fto Dodge waste nan Durango Hellcat are California, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington. How agelong that will past and whether they'll alteration their minds by nan extremity of nan twelvemonth remains to beryllium seen. And moreover if they clasp nan statement and garbage to activity pinch Dodge connected nan Durango Hellcat, it's not for illustration those residents will beryllium forced to suffer done only being capable to bargain a V6-powered Durango, since nan 5.7-liter V8 is already disposable successful nan Durango nationwide. And if 360 hp isn't capable earthy V8 power, there's besides nan 6.4-liter R/T type that makes 475 hp. 

Of course, neither of those V8-powered Durangos is nan Hellcat, and for immoderate people, if it's not a Hellcat, it conscionable won't do. They request that supercharger and nan knowledge that their three-row family SUV is nan astir powerful three-row family SUV successful nan Dodge lineup. Do you not attraction astir those people, Gavin Newsom? Do you?