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.
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