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Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels.

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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 110 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Of course Stellantis was first to do it

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 86 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“Hey guys our sales are falling through the floor faster than Tesla, maybe we should rework our pricing and reconsider our policies towards buyers to move more volume and improve our imagine.”

“ Uh… nah. How about instead, we put ads on the center console!”

[–] 843563115848@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just got new neighbors out here in rural Kansas. They have two kias and a ram pickup for the man. If only they had a jeep it would be like a nearly complete set of the shittiest vehicles money can buy. Looking forward to exciting things here.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kia is known for shitty locks, but that seems like a non-issue in rural Kansas? It’s not like they have ads in the dashboard.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Kia pivoted to EVs fast and early because they can’t make a ICE power plant that doesn’t catch on fire.

Gotta carry on the proud Chrysler traditions of shunning innovation and making poor business decisions.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 8 points 4 days ago

They rolled it out foest with Jeeps earlier this year