Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Is Finally Legal In All 50 States

If you’ve been living in California, New York, or any of those "green" states, you’ve probably been staring at the Dodge Durango Hellcat like it was forbidden fruit. For a while there, emissions laws basically made it illegal to buy a brand-new one in about a third of the country. You were stuck hunting through used car ads or just dreaming about that supercharger whine.

Okay, good news for you filthy speedaholics: Dodge finally made it through the regulatory jump rope. It’s legal to buy a 2026 Durango SRT Hellcat in all 50 states. You can actually walk into a dealership in LA or Seattle and legally drive home 710 horsepower worth of middle finger to high gas prices.

Inside the engine bay, it’s still the same bonkers powerplant we love. That 6.2-liter supercharged V8 is still howling and hauling like a mother trucker.

• Speed: It’ll do 0 to 60 in about 3.5 seconds. In a vehicle with three rows of seats, that’s just plain silly.
• Towing: It can still pull 8,700 pounds. So, if you need to get your boat to the lake right now, this is your ride.
• Top speed: It tops out at 180 mph. Please don’t actually do that with the kids in the back, but it’s nice to know you could.

Dodge is also bringing back the "Jailbreak" version, which is basically a license to get weird with the styling. They claim there are "millions" of ways to spec it. You can choose between wild colors like B5 Blue, pick your brake caliper colors, swap out the seatbelts, and add racing stripes. It’s perfect for the person who wants a $100,000 SUV that looks exactly like no one else's.

It’s a bit of a weird move if you think about it. Every other car company is obsessed with "going green" and building electric SUVs that look like bars of soap. Meanwhile, Dodge is over here high-fiving the EPA and selling a three-row tank that gets about 12 miles per gallon.

This is almost certainly the “last call” for this brand of old-school muscle. If you’re after a brand-new, family hauler of a car that actually sounds like a NASCAR and can leave a Porsche in the dust off the line, this is probably your last chance to get one before all of them are hybrids.

Speaking of which, this car is not cheap. You’re going to need at least $80k to $90k to even get in the door, and a fully loaded Jailbreak will have no problem clearing six figures. But can you really put a price on that supercharger howl?