Dodge Chargers now have pop-up ads at every stoplight
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Here's the Stellantis customer agreement.[1]
Free Access Subscription Plan: The Free Access Plan is our free advertising supported Subscription. You may be offered the opportunity to self-activate this Plan or we may activate your vehicle radio after your Trial Subscription or paid Subscription Plan. The Service will continue until: (i) you or we cancel this Plan; (ii) your radio is transferred; or (iii) you purchase a Subscription. The content available may differ depending on the capabilities of your radio and this Plan is not available on all radios. You agree that we may activate this Plan on your inactive radio and the availability of this Service is determined solely by us. If this Plan has been activated on your radio, you may cancel it as set forth in Section 4. You may request that your radio not be activated with this Plan after your trial or paid Subscription by mailing a letter to Sirius XM Care, PO Box 33174, Detroit, MI 48232, Attention: No Free Access Subscription. In your letter include: (1) your first and last name; (2) email address; (3) postal address; (4) Vehicle Radio ID/ESN; and (5) indicate that you do not want the Free Access Plan.
Stellantis stock has dropped from 29 to 12 over the last year.
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Sounds like a mostly nothingburger if I can turn it off myself.
As I've been resigned to the decline of civilization I just sort of noted that I had a few seconds worth of work added to my life in turning it off to the profit of someone else so it really isn't that bad I guess, especially as it only happens when starting the car which is the best case if it has to be that way.
This particular ad, at every stoplight well thats quite a bit worse in my opinion. I feel lucky now that its just sirius xm ads for me.
A nothingburger would be an opt in screen where you can decline.
In 2023, you engineered a record year of profitability for Stellantis, earning you the title of the highest-compensated automotive CEO. You personally earned a record amount of almost forty million dollars that year. Unfortunately, the engineering and structuring of that year have led us to exactly where we told your executives we would be today.
The reckless short-term decision-making to secure record profits in 2023 has had devastating, yet entirely predictable, consequences in the US market. Those consequences include the rapid degradation of our iconic American brands - brands like Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and Chrysler that have over a century of history in America. The market share of your brands has been slashed nearly in half, Stellantis stock price is tumbling, plants are closing, layoffs are rampant, and key executives fleeing the company. Investor lawsuits, supplier lawsuits, strikes - the fallout is mounting. Your own distribution network, your dealer body, has been left in an anemic and diminished state.
Unfortunately, these are just the consequences we feel today. The drastic market share downturn will have a long lingering painful fiscal impact on your parts manufacturing business for many years to come. The pain will not be confined to the company and its investors. Your dealer network, their employees, your suppliers, and most of all, your own workforce - everyone will suffer the consequences of these disastrous choices.
The bill has come due for the decisions that you made to engineer those profits in 2023, and your attempt at a soft landing on the backs of your employees, your dealers, and your suppliers is frankly just wrong. We did not create this problem, the federal government did not create this problem, the UAW did not create this problem, and your employees did not create this problem - you created this problem.
In December 2024, the CEO of Stellantis was fired. This was spun as "unexpectedly resigned" due to "increasingly divergent views" with the board of directors.[2]
It's really bad. Customers, employees, investors, directors, and dealers have all had it. The only remaining Chrysler-branded vehicle is a mini-van. Stellantis is down to sixth place in US vehicle sales, below Honda and Kia. It's the worst disaster in US automotive history since American Motors and Studebaker went down.
[1] https://s3-prod.autonews.com/2024-09/Dealer%20letter%20to%20...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/01/stellantis-ceo-carlos-tavare...
My 2011 Acura doesn't do OTA updates either, and that's the way I like it.
You’re potentially losing side airbags, collision avoidance and other safety features that became relatively universal since 2010.
The better option is to just steer to brands that take privacy and security at least a little seriously [1].
[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
My point is that buying a newer, safer car and disabling the telemetry (in my Subaru, for instance, it requires pulling a fuse) is almost always a better choice than buying an older car. For you. For anyone you may have with you. For everyone outside.
I'm good with that.
Sure. Not everyone is comfortable making that choice for everyone who might get in their car with them or pedestrian in their vicinity. For them, buying a newer car whose telemetry can be torn out is the realistic alternative to sucking it up.
They're all crap. But some are worse than others.
> I’ll consider buying a newer car eventually, but only if I can physically disconnect the modem
Right. This is this point of doing the research. I don't know a way to tear out the telelmetry on a Tesla. On a Subaru, on the other hand, it requires ripping a fuse.
Although, in a pinch, I could probably disable the cell radio in a car, but it's just better to not have to bother with that.
Dodge said they'd start selling in EU this year, so we might find out soon enough.
At least these ads won't come through because there's no SiriusXM service here.
I didn't think it was too high when I still owned a car (in Ireland). And this was a petrol car which was very unfavourable in the CO2-based tax regime.
In fact I've been having this feeling a lot lately :'(
All this would motivate is putting piece of cardboard over the dashboard display, or ripping out the dash entirely and replacing it with your own custom 3rd party alternative. Or ripping out the satellite / wifi equivalent.
Starting to get like Windows with wheels. Get a new install. Disable camera. Disable microphone. Disable remote desktop. Disable call-home reporting. Disable corporate features apps.
And Windows still keeps trying to get me have XBox game pass on my work laptop... Why did you uninstall this? Are you sure you don't want to interact with teabaggers on Halo and Fortnight during work?
And how much can they possibly make? A couple $ million for an ad contract that makes nobody ever want to buy your automobiles ever again?
Like many have noted, if there's ever a return to driving it's going to be about the least "connected" automobile that can be found on the market. Want wifi while driving I'll use a phone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dodge/comments/1j838k8/why_tf_am_i_...
Now, this ad is a new one..
Edit: To be clear I think it would be a deal breaker for rental cars too, but I could see a marketing type make the case for the 'marginal revenue add' or some such.
So incredibly ugly, tacky, and unnecessary.
... miss you, n-gate!
I wonder what it would look like if we included non-US companies but only counted their US sales of cars that were built in the US (and excluded cars from GM, Ford, and Tesla that are not built in the US)? A bit of searching failed to turn up anything useful.
If we forget about where the company is from and just look at the top brands, it is not clear for what N it makes sense anymore to talk about a "Big N". The top 10 are, in order, GM, Toyota, Ford, Hyundai, Honda, Stellantis, Nissan, VW, Subaru, and Tesla. Their shares of 2024 sales were 17, 15, 13, 11, 9, 8, 7, 4, 4, and 4%.