The NASTY Dodge Scandal
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2024
- Tim Kuniskis has stepped down as CEO, quality control issues are through the roof, a huge number of US-based engineers have been shown the door, and even though profits are up and executives are taking home fat bonus checks, Dodge factories-and the entire company for that matter-seem like they’re in complete disarray. DODGE, you okay bro? Today, we’re going to find out!
From CEO Tim Kuniskis ‘voluntarily retiring’ right before the new Charger launch where Dodge announced there would be no more V8s but rather a twin-turbo 6-cylinder and an electrified version, to massive layoffs of US-based engineering staff, to problems within the manufacturing facilities themselves making working conditions less than ideal. Then there are the reportedly large amounts of re-works some of their vehicles are requiring before even leaving the factory. According to an employee that works at the plant, there are brand new trucks that won’t start, infotainment systems that are dead right out of the box, and a huge number of vehicles requiring repairs before final checks can be performed.
While it’s great that the parent company Stellantis just reported their highest profits ever, and it’s sure to make shareholders happy, on the surface, it seems like the way they’ve gotten there is through massive layoffs and forcing the men and women who build some of these frankly awesome cars and trucks to work under less than perfect conditions.
But is this the beginning of the end or a new beginning? We'll get to that in a sec. In recent years, Dodge has been killing it, and while it seems like they’ve stubbed their toe, we believe they’re going to find their footing and get back to creating badass products once again.
So let’s break this down and start with the events surrounding Tim Kuniskis and his retirement.
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It's the CEO. He needs to go. Carlos Tavares is bad for business!
“Weak men created hard times…”
It's the entire auto industry that needs to go.
Facts. Put bring back Tim Kuniskis and make him CEO of Stellantis, the guy who made sales an all time high and not profits. Sales has plummeted but due to the layoffs and the 30-50% price increase they made all time profits. It shows where a company is when they car more about how much they made rather than how much they sold
U can't just bring back a ceo and expect the auto industry to change. Everyone knows, that knows, the industry is dying. The economy is dying. America is fading away. We are no longer the soul consumers. Unless you're rich you're done for
Hes bad
What would really help the situation is to get Carlos Tavaras the HELL out of Dodge and get somebody running Stellantis that actually knows how to run a car company instead of a money grubbing idiot that will kill the company!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen brother
I would like to buy one, sigh* one day.
Its sad what stellantis has done to dodge. Never again will I own one.
1973 Charger SE Brougham was my last Dodge, Moved up to Chrysler and my last one was a 300M. Now we have enjoyed a couple Grand Cherokee Limiteds. Great cars from a great company.
Dodge is a dead brand now..
As a door nail. And people are having issues with the 2023s. This is the 1st time in history i have ever heard were the last year of the body of a car is the worst of them all. People have "last call models" having issues. Were the 2022 models are made better. That's insanse. If you buy brand new mopars i don't feel sorry for you.
@@therealsyxx I think it's possible to actually buy a brand new 2022, if you don't mind the chance of lot rot.
@@townhall05446 I've had 3. The only way I'll buy a hellcat is fun auction. So i can have the engine broken down and weak points fixed. Dodge is just a horrible company.
Short-term gains from greed will lead to long-term losses.
I wouldn’t buy another Dodge/Stellantis product. Why would I want an STD?
No American is a fan of stellantis
Especially if you’ve ever worked for them…
Europe aren't a huge fan of them either, especially those who work there
Detroit auto industry history would be 2 dimensional and pretty bland without the spice that Dodge lends to it. Great insight!
Corvette. Mustang. GT40. Camaro. Lightning (non-EV). Chrysler did have a lot that it brought, true, but Chrysler execs sold it to Daimler which ran it into the ground. Then Obama put it in bed with FIAT, and here we are today with this; whatever "This" is-
Personally The CEO Carlos Tavares may be the worst automotive CEO EVER, inside source said Jim and Tim both left because Carlos won't work with them. When they miss earnings end of June and published in July that stock price will be cut in half.
Great video! Stellantis is a mess for sure. Keeps getting worse.
R.I.P DODGE
After 2020 Covid ruined quality control
7:31 this is textbook play on how the [USE YOUR IMAGINATION] works. They get people to test "new" things and once it's all done..... those people are generally [USE YOUR IMAGINATION] and never seen or heard again
Your a mechanic but you love stellantis … that’s irony
I hate and love this comment, so thumbs up. Hahaha
Stellantis will put his kids through college.
Your?
Job security 😂
What’s a good manufacturer with great models to work on
In Europe we all know that stellantis quality is a piece of crap.
Dodge is done. No chance they get back to making cars ppl want unless Stellantis sells off the Dodge brand into American ownership. Carlos and Stellantis were on a mission to destroy hellcats and hemis. They succeeded. All their engineers gone, srt division 86ed.. Dodge will offer a bunch of Chinese cheap clown cars, euro trash, and evs that will be a total failure that nobody wants. They need to change direction before its too late. Unfortunately they are about a year or two too late now 😄 🤣 RIP Carlos and Dodge 😔
Industries are always going through phases, in recent years they all suffer from overpaid management and executives that only work for short term gains to milk as much bonuses out of a company as possible. In the long run they ALWAYS hurt the company but by that time they have their money save and sound removed from the company and can move on.
At a certain point there is either a shift for things to get better or the company implodes, the usual thing. Sadly so the former is most often achieved AFTER the government had to step in with bail out money and this means the reboot is standing on very fragile legs.
The grunts, the people who actually do the work, create value are the ones that face all the negative aspects while the ones making the calls dodge all accountability.
Incredibly poor management from individuals who know nothing about cars or management and were totally unqualified to be in the positions they held. Regrettably, the situation with CDJR is so grave at this point that it is beyond salvaging in any meaningful way.
It's a mess, don't care, watching the sh!t show - "Brotherhood of Mopar...." hilarious that so many fell for that marketing BS. Corporations are about profit, they do not care about consumers beyond selling their wares to you
Exactly 💯. All they care about is filling there pockets do you really think Tim cares? He's set for life now chilling in his mansion hey I'd do the same.
If i were tim id bail too. they are killing the soul of dodge and nobody is gonna buy them after they switch to a strait 6 or electric platform. Perfect time to bounce imo
Carlos Tavares, the French CEO just seems like he’s on a mission to destroy this once great American company. Because I remember, the Lee Iacocca days.
That's generally how it goes..... Dad and neighbor mom and coworker lmao
I love my Dodge ❤
Stellantis is now a foreign company. The big three are now GM, Ford and Tesla.
They should call the new electric charger with the fake engine sounds the Charger MP/3.
Those problems have always been in the manufacturing plants, I sold new cars for 30 yrs and these issues are nothing new. So big deal
Hopefully, Tim Kuniskis will be in charge of the new Pontiac Brand. That would be awesome for him to make a modern TransAm
I’m here to tell anybody listening, that loves the Dodge brand, we are collectively doing a GameStop stock type buyback ( hint hint)to get our Dodge brand back. Too bad this guy didn’t suggest it. Most of us follow TK‘s garage on UA-cam, go there and follow the rest of us, help us save the brand, or drive fiats…that’s what’s coming l..
What still the stock tanks. If you buy now you are only making the guys running the show rich. Wait till it's below 5
@@cu89red82the quarterly earnings are coming in at the end of the month, the current value of stellantis stock is about $20
Tk said as of right now we would need to buy 3 billion worth of stocks, but what he doesn’t know is that stellantis has been doing a stock buy back program and in the past few days has spent about 400 million dollars on buying its own stocks with the goal of spending 1 billion dollars by the end of the month so the stock won’t sink if anything it will go up thanks to their stock buyback program
Its probably best to buy stocks right now and hope others are willing to buy stocks
You literally been driving fiats for awhile now..
I almost choked when you mentioned 1st Gen Neon. I had two of them and would like to forget that part of my past 😂
Dodge needs a 3cyl stick shift hatchback car
I've seen a handful of these videos now and it seems to me that we have a culture war. One side wants to hang on to the glory days of loud exhausts and tire smoke, and the other side thinks it's time to be ultra-global and mostly electric.
This is a divide that neither side can bridge, but the first victim if the stalemate will likely be Dodge.
You just need to dodge that DODGE!!
Unreliable and Overpriced
What dies owning a Viper have to do with Stellantis?
I won't soon forget when Boeing execs were forced to testify before the House on the recent door popping off and missing bolts they literally could not tell you who directly was responsible for their installation....a real confidence booster
Sounds just like Boeing's story.
They got there by forcing their dealers to take on stock they couldn't sell, which is rusting away now.
Sadly Dodge/Chrysler has ceased to be.
Oh the "Last Call frenzy" what a SCREW JOB that was. People just giving $10s of thousands of dollars over msrp only for the Dodge to shift the goal post.😄😄😄😄
under powered v-6's and EV's are not drag cars
As much as I like raw performance, kinda glad the hellcat/demon are gone, too many people who can’t handle the power being able to get a hold of them and end up destroying them or end up in the hands of the po lice
Karma for not making another srt4
All major corporations are outsourcing engineering to India and other cheaper nations. They don’t mind screwing Americans while their execs rake in record amounts.
Pull your head out dodge!!!! Nobody wants an electric sports car!!!🤦🤦🤦
Why credit all the those cars Daimler-Chrysler built to stellantis? They only inherited those car models with the merger. In fact they seem to be making them worse. Right out of the gate. We don’t need to show stellantis any love when it is unearned.
Atlantis has oversee the deconstruction of the Chrysler brand. Chrysler used to have multiple cars and now all they have is a minivan. The Chrysler 300 has been discontinued and never even got the hellcat engine.
As for Dodge: STELLANTIS is a European company, Dodge has no use for them. Dodge doesn’t make right hand drive cars. Therefore STELLANTIS doesn’t mind killing off Dodge.
Europe hates American cars and Europe hates Americans. They don’t care about the eagles that are emotionally wrapped up in Americans purchasing of Dodge vehicles.
Ever since Sergio was in charge, they were trying to push their European cars on us: Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, etc. they did that at the expense of the Dodge Magnum and other Chrysler products that could have been improved.
I think STELLANTIS is prepared to be a lower lower volume/high transaction price dealer and they don’t care.
Also worth mentioning is the UAW strike last year. I think they are ready to slash it burn American production, shift production outside of America and deal with the repercussions later.
RIP DODGE AND RIP MOPAR
Carlos is cutting costs and increasing sticker price chasing the high end..
Stellantis doesn’t care bc they haven’t introduced their design yet
These CEOs don't care.
Is the answer selling Chrysler/Doge to a Chinese company that produces EV Chryslers while allowing Dodge to build a mix of EV, Hybrid and ICE V8s?
I suggest Dodge just leave the dashboard out of the equation since they all fall apart anyway
Got rid of my charger in the nick of time because it was right before they were stealing all of them and dodge was letting you return the vehicl3 because they were in so much demand that they wouldnt give you a penalty like a normal repo they did not ask for the remainder of the balance they sold it for more money then i bought it for so they counted us as even and that 600 a month note was just unsustainable
Stellantis is making jeep a luxury brand. And the only reason profits are all time high is due to the 30-50% price increase over the last 3 years. As a DJCR tech i dont recommend bying anything 2023 and up from Stellantis as quality is way worse.
I have a dream that Tim Kuniskis moves to GM as head of a revamped Pontiac division with the mission of creating a new firebird or GTO suitable for NASCAR sponsorship. He could mint money making a new Firebird.
Junk.
Because Brazil, India and Morocco make such high quality vehicles
Arrogance won't keep paying the bills. Profits don't pay the bills evidently, venders haven't been paid for more than 5 months and some are stopping deliveries, hundreds of units are outside the factories waiting for parts to complete them. The problems with electrical systems... why haven't the Morocco engineers fixed it?
Its over for the foreseeable future
Good for Tim! Go out while you're on top.
This is what happens when you don’t own your own product. Unlike Ford,Dodge doesn’t own themselves the Italians own them. The charger and challenger finally did something for the first in over 50 years and thats out selling the Mustang. Really disappointing short ending after such an accomplishment.
My ram 2500 just learned a new trick! Yeah, it likes to flash the abs and traction control lights, and kill the Cruze control randomly while dinging at me! Yeah it pretty fucking annoying and there’s no fix for it as the parts aren’t available. Soooo I guess I can go piss up a rope!
The best thing that could happen to CDRJ is to go back to CDRJ. And get the Italian shit out of it. These new what evers being built will not be collectable and probably wont run 20 years from now. The old hot rods will still run, if we can still get gas.
Ever since the merger, Carlos tavares has had it out for the North American side of the company.
How dodge has any customers i don't know. The people who are die-hard Mopar guys are delusional at this point.
Anybody that thinks a neon is a good car, you gotta be nuts.
Overpriced junk
So what did Ralph Giles do?
Before the assembly line , and after the assembly line , guys showed up clean . And went home dirty , but the concept of keep it simple got you from point A to point B and back just fine , modern tires was a huge advancement , flats suck ! And you patched your inner tubes on the road ,
They are going out of business.....
if its not a willys, cj5/7 its not a jeep
Thank God I got one if the last real Dodge trucks. 88 Dakota, reg cab, a carb and a 5 speed manual. Y'all can keep your rolling computers.
Dodge is so lucky to have true reliable customer base that buys cars every 36 years. Way to support them.
-sarcasm.
Lol, I tried thier new stuff and let's be honest, it's crap. My Grand Cherokee was a nightmare.Even the defunct brand Saab I have is not anywhere near as good as the pre GM Saab I had before it. American cars are beautifully designed just not screwed together very well and made with the cheapest parts available. nightmare. The dependence on software is gonna be why none of this stuff will be usable 35 years from now I believe.
Note on scene 6:40 this ruins company's infrastructure and reliability. IN 2008 to 2011 all manufacturers including JDM .. how their vehicles because less reliable. They introduced the DCT with Transmissions that run on Belts that stretch instead of gears ⚙️. Adding Turbos too, ( which get up to 1,875 ° Fahrenheit or 1,020° Celcius. They were mounted either in Front of the Engine. Where pulleys acted as a Sheild, and tuners still do this. ) Now Engineers get out of College and have no concept of why do CAD modeling. They see a Gap of space and figure lower center of Gravity. They put the Turbo next to the engine without a Heat Shield 🛡 or Insulation Turbo Blacket.
Porsche is the only Turbo Vehicle's I trust with Turbos. They mount them on quarter panels behind Intercooler and Fan directing heat out back and away from the engine block. Ecoboost (Ford) and EcoTech (GM) mount them the same way. I lived it with Ecoboost Mustang. 2 engine replaced before 60,000 miles. StellAntis European in no Different reliability will equal their products or be worse.
👦🤘🏎🏁🚩 I had bought a 2022 Roush Mustang and it will be the best car I'll ever buy. I don't like the S650 Mustang with the Push Button Parking, I hate the Air Conditioning and Radio controls on the Screen. In the Summer heat the Screen is all Black, and only turns on once the temperature inside is cold. It turns on if you turn in on at your final destination or on a Red Light by turning the engine off and then turn it back on.
It wont happen but elon musk needs to buy the brand out from stellantis. Elon talked about acquiring a gas powered brand and could use carbon credits from his teslas to build big v8 powered hemi cars.
Dodge & Chrusler are DOOMED, will be completely gone soon, possibly for a time will sell only rebadged Euro Models
Dodge/Chrysler has been doing the limited run fake out for awhile now. Had one of the supposed 2500 only to be made John Varvatos Chrysler 300c cars with numbered plates blah blah blah… the next year they just made the same car John varvatos edition no plates cause the 2500 meant nothing.
What do you mean 2500 meant nothing, a 2500 is a 3/4 ton pickup, heavy duty brakes, springs, bigger tires.sp what’s your issue
@@adriandelaat2905 there was supposed to be 2500 made total and when they made more of them next year it instantly makes all the numbers plate ones lose almost all value that you paid for
It’s a wrap 🤷♀️CDJR, , stellantis just bought them out to Ruin the brand 😡
They’re already in jeopardy a lot of the stuff you say makes no sense but I know from what I’m reading in your comments there’s only one person that needs to get put out to pasture
Welp that was my last purchase from Ram unless they get rid of that nut job tavares and other bean counters from Europe
Nobody wants an EV, Stellantis is going to either close down or sell, Chrysler, Dodge and Ram brand.....Stellantis only wants Jeep brand
Jeep are their worst selling vehicles, fiat has better sells
@@diegoharo7943 nobody in North America buys a Fiat,...Stellantis only wants Jeep as a Luxury model
@@Deke1 lol you said stellantis is going to shutdown which is ludicrous, worst case scenario they well sell sell cdjr or shut it down but stellantis is successful in other countries
@@Deke1 but yes on North America fiat is not very popular but fiat sales are higher than dodge so….
@@diegoharo7943 I said Stellantis is probably going to shut down Chrysler, Ram and Dodge or sell those North America brands off......
Dodge is Dead 😂😂😂😂😂
CDJR has really bad management issues right now! Carlos tevares thinks he’s selling overpriced vehicles to Europeans- but we’re Americans. He doesn’t know his audience. But jeep makes them a killing- so I doubt he’ll drop CDJR or sell it off. As far as EV’s …… his too little, too late attitude may kill off dodge ……. We’ll see 👀.
Stellantis owns a bunch of crap car brands. Outside of the hellcat challenger i wouldn't own any thing dodge.
Wow a lot of talk no point to it !
You know I thought the Chargers and and challenges they were selling in the horsepower awesome but what the dealerships were allowed to do to the client base was more than criminal and the corporate should have took care of it right away there's no reason for the demon I whatever it is 170 one dealership marking it up 200,000 over MSRP repeat customers that's how you you rewards me that's giving you business I don't know what the f*** they were thinking but every dealership that did that and play that game they they should be a database for people shopping for cars so they know not to go to them and that's how they should be rewarded
I guess the dei hires arent working out?
Truck of the year 3 times yet still selling behind Silverado and f150 let’s be honest they bought the reward not earned it.😂
All nonsense ..... THE "PROBLEM IS" PRICE OF THE VEHICLES. The party is over. 2 % 89 month car/truck loans are history. price price price price is the problem. Rent, food, insurance, taxes, mortages etc. So Dodge/RAM is NOW way too expensive. Stock brokers and hedge fund managers are not the Dodge/RAM customers. Your youtube is a bunch of hot air that has not nor never will focus on the "problem".
DEI
Fiat motors don’t last more than 100 k
Dodge's have been poorly made disposable garbage since the 60's, but at least they were fairly cheap.. Until recently. The only reason anyone cares about Chrysler's poor QC NOW is because you guys seem hell bent on paying ridiculous, astronomically stupid prices for anything with a charger/challenger/hellcat/wrangler badge on it. Blaming Daimler-Chrysler, FCA and Stellantis for their downfall is kinda lame and hilarious to the rest of us who've been watching them feign "brokeness" to maintain and milk that phony underdog status for all it's worth, since the 80's. Saying Chrysler CARRIED any of those three is just downright delusional too. Daimler couldn't wait to drop Chrylser like a bad habit.
I only drive and purchase classic and modern American Muscle Cars .. V8s (preferably HEMIs) and MANUAL transmissions .. as they no longer offer these crucial and mandatory factors I will not be purchasing from them again. my 2016 Challenger 392 M6 is the last of the money they will be getting from me.
Hopefully and American buyer will take over Dodge and make it great again. Elon? Elon needs a Internal combustion engine company. Ford and GM are just as big of a mess.
Since I was born, Dodge and Chrysler was nothing but a third tier brand that old people talked about street racing...back in the day. All the products in the 80s were built shoddy and utilitarian. Now they make a car with a huge engine and a supercharger and keep slapping the name Hemi on anything as if they were the only people with a hemispherical combustion chamber. At work we use Fords. Why? The GMs had some minor issues. The Stellantis stuff broke on another level. Multiple transmission failures, tail lights falling out, key fob issues, won't start, bumper falling off etc. Two multi billion dollar companies and both ditched Dodge. One of them is trying Kia. My Dodges left me stranded a lot. Electrical failures, transmission failures, won't start. I had good luch with the 3.9 in a full size but because it was parts bin engineered, it had stupid small windows and a 1980s dash. The transmission only failed once in that one. The 3.6 Pentastar ran great until the cams did the tick of death. Like all of them. I can't forgive that just to have a large engine with a supercharger. I need some quality. When I gap someone I don't want it to mean my sloppy door gaps were bigger than theirs...
Dodge is over Chrysler done and jeeps done. They make the worst vehicles.
Where is the money grabbing union to help with layoffs and the unsatisfactory work conditions? I thought that is why these people pay dues.oh I forgot to busy trying to land another paycheck in the south smdh
Your content is a rip off of donut media. Let’s make some original content
stellantis and trash stealing the chargers and stuff is what ruined dodge as a brand, i would never own any dodge thats not a 60s or early 70s era charger
Union Affects.
Eat the Tacos!
dodge junk yes junk