Review: 2011 Dodge Durango

Two years ago on a lark, my friend and I climbed on board a new Dodge Durango hybrid and drove from Detroit to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania are known in the kitschy phenomenon Groundhog Day. The idea was to do a combined road-trip history check and vehicle, but Chrysler did not even wait until we return home before they killed production of the gas-electric SUV. In fact, it was little more than two months after his initial announcement that production was stopped at the truck's Delaware plant.Blame then difficult financial Chrysler condition, but the hybrid Durango barely made a dent on the Pentastar production charts, a maturity of one year and moved only 224 copies. Keep your late "Who the electric SUV? Killed" screams though. Despite a claimed nearly 25 percent increase in fuel efficiency, the Durango hybrid was not a particularly good vehicle. This was not was not really their fault, of course, as the already aging second-generation Durango, on which it was based did not start very sophisticated piece.
Fast forward to 2011, and we have requisitioned an example of completely new third-generation Dodge Durango to see our second ever make pilgrimage to Punxy Phil. More importantly, we use the trip as a chance to see whether Chrysler has finally got around to building a better Durango.

Video: Dodge commercial pokes fun at Snowpocalypse

Four-wheel drive is available in the 2011 Dodge Charger, Travel and Durango, and hopes with all the popular snow this winter, Chrysler, you are every edge you can wish for.

To spread the word about his four-wheel lineup, Dodge is running a new TV ad that pokes fun at the normally panic, is that the behavior when the weather report calls for snow. After being deprived of the local grocery stores bare of milk and bread, you'll have to go out of their way to restock anyway, so you might as well secure, self-conscious way to do it, right? Dodge thinks its AWD offers turn epic winter weather in little more than snow. Does Auburn Hills have another hit on our hands seemingly revived from a Chrysler advertising or is it a dud? Check it out after the jump, then let us know in Comments.