2025 Dodge Durango Review: Prices, Specs, and Photos
What kind of vehicle is the 2025 Dodge Durango? What does it compare to?
The 2025 Dodge Durango is a three-row midsize SUV with the option for ample—and another option for extreme—power underhood. It’s comparable to the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Ford Explorer, and Kia Telluride.
Is the 2025 Dodge Durango a good SUV?
The Durango can be a muscular choice, and it rides and handles well. Concerning safety scores, a dated overall design, and a surprisingly high price tag work against it. It’s a 5.7 out of 10 here. (Read more about how we rate cars.)
What’s new for the 2025 Dodge Durango?
The Durango keeps loping along. This year, the lineup has been trimmed to just three trim levels: GT, R/T, and SRT Hellcat. A handful of special-edition models can dress up the latter two versions. Additionally, the previously optional 10.1-inch touchscreen is now standard.
Durangos look the part thanks to muscular fenders and a squat stance, particularly by SUV standards. Their basic shape has not changed since the 2010 model year, though many details like the honeycomb grilles, 20-inch wheel designs, and big intakes have been tweaked over the years. The Durango’s cabin is also remarkably up-to-date, even if it isn’t all that spacious. Plenty of buttons and knobs by modern standards make it fairly easy to sort through, too.
Durangos come with a choice of three powertrains: a somewhat modest 295-hp V-6, a zestier 5.7-liter V-8 rated at 360 hp, or a ferocious 6.2-liter V-8 that uses a supercharger to spool out an otherworldly 710 hp. The pick of the litter here is the middle V-8, at least for anyone not trying to win every stoplight race. Any engine is smooth, and all come paired with a sporty ride and steering with plenty of heft, which results in balanced, comfortable handling. Properly equipped, the R/T can also tow 8,700 pounds, which is very good for a vehicle of this size.
Stick with the V-6 and the Durango is estimated to deliver as high as 20 mpg combined, which isn’t terrible for a big SUV. V-8 versions slide to just 17 mpg in R/T form or a mere 13 mpg combined for the beastly SRT Hellcat.
Though it’s spacious and comfortable inside, the 2025 Durango is best thought of as a two-row vehicle. The standard third row is cramped. Unfortunately, folding the rear seat backs down results in a lumpy cargo area floor, which can make stowing away long or bulky items something of a chore.
The Durango’s iffy crash-test record is offset slightly by the fact that all models now have standard automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, and blind-spot monitors. Still, the four-star rating from the IIHS and the “Marginal” score in the small overlap front test from the IIHS shouldn’t be shrugged off.
How much does the 2025 Dodge Durango cost?
Dodge has not released prices for the 2025 Durango, though the lineup should start around $43,000 with rear-wheel drive, or $45,000 with all-wheel drive. Big price cuts for some other cars made by Dodge parent Stellantis may very well make their way to the Durango, too, so stay tuned.
The range culminates both in price and, by the end of 2025, availability, with the top SRT Hellcat. It’s available in three special-edition trims this year, all priced at around $115,500 or so.
Where is the 2025 Dodge Durango made?
In Detroit, Michigan.
