The lawsuit has been brought forward by Stacy Phillips, Lawrence Willis, Eli Negron III, Christian Papana, Jason van Genderen, Mark Hollingsworth, and Jeffrey G Heintz Sr. These plaintiffs hail from Virginia, Texas, New York, California, Illinois, Georgia, and Florida and are pooling their resources for a class action suit (with region-specific subclasses) that, if successful, would benefit all 2021 Durango Hellcat buyers who made a purchase before the announcement of the 2023 model.
The plaintiffs claim that the promise of a single year of production swayed them and that without this level of exclusivity, they may not have paid as much as they did or may have skipped on the car altogether. The plaintiffs have also noted how widely publicized the promise of a single model year was, citing articles from this and other prominent industry publications. This is the basis of the lawsuit – Dodge was very vocal that buyers only had “one shot” to get behind the wheel of the V8-powered and supercharged SUV.