The 2026 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak Escapes the Prison of Conformity
Dodge’s Jailbreak personalization program allows buyers to spec a Durango SRT Hellcat unlike any other.
3Bentley has Mulliner, Rolls-Royce has Bespoke, Ferrari has Atelier, and Dodge once again has Jailbreak. The champion of working-class car enthusiasts is bringing back its personalization program with the 2026 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak, a sort of build-your-own-special-edition variant that allows buyers to bust free from the usual mass-production ordering restrictions.
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Want a 710-horspower three-row SUV with green paint, blue stripes, orange brake calipers, brass badges, red seats, and sepia seatbelts? Dodge will soon let you buy exactly that—or something more subtle, if that’s your thing. The company claims that the Durango Jailbreak selections can be mixed and matched in more than six million combinations, all but guaranteeing no two Durango Jailbreaks will be alike. The personalization options include:
- Six exterior colors: Green Machine, Destroyer Gray, Diamond Black, Octane Red, Vapor Gray, and White Knuckle
- Six wheels: Machine face with Dark Pockets, Satin Carbon, Lights Out, Brass Monkey, Forged Y-spoke Lights Out, and Forged Y-Spoke Brass Monkey
- Six exterior badge colors: Brass Monkey, Midnight Metallic, silver, red, orange, and yellow
- Five seat colors: Black Laguna leather and Alcantara, Hammerhead Gray leather, Demonic Red Laguna leather, Ebony Red Nappa leather, and sepia leather
- Five stripe options: Gunmetal, Redline Red/Black, red, silver, and blue
- Four brake caliper colors: red, black, yellow, and orange
- Four seatbelt colors: Hammerhead Gray, black, red, and sepia
Jailbreak buyers will also choose from three seating configurations accommodating five, six, or seven passengers. The optional Premium Group adds a 19-speaker Harmon Kardon sound system and advanced driver assist features, while individual options include an Alcantara steering wheel, a suede headliner, black exhaust tips, a black-painted hood, a sunroof, a towing package, and Pirelli summer tires. All Jailbreak Durangos get a badge set into the carbon-fiber trim in front of the passenger.
If all that’s not enough to put your personal touch on a Durango, Dodge will spray a Jailbreak in pretty much any color you can imagine through the Jailbreak Custom Color program that it launched for the 1,025-hp 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. The Stryker Purple Durango pictured here shows just one possibility using a hue that was once a factory option for the Dodge Viper.
Mechanically the Jailbreak is the same Durango SRT Hellcat we’ve known and loved for years. Despite being introduced in 2010, the third-generation Durango has aged gracefully thanks in no small part to the 2021 addition of the supercharged Hemi 6.2-liter V-8 that makes 710 horsepower and 645 pound-feet of torque. In a MotorTrend test last year, the midsize SUV rocketed to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds and through the quarter mile in 11.7 seconds.
Pricing for the 2026 Durango lineup has yet to be announced, but we expect the Jailbreak to be relatively affordable compared to what Bentley, Rolls-Royce, and Ferrari charge for access to their customization programs. Back in 2022, Dodge allowed customers to give Chargers and Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebodies the Jailbreak treatment for $995 before making it available as a no-cost option for all 2023 SRT variants.
Dodge will continue to build the standard, mass-produced Durango SRT Hellcat alongside the Jailbreak in 2026 as well, and we expect pricing for those models to start under $90,000. Ordering for the 2026 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat opens on August 13, with deliveries starting in the fourth quarter of 2025
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