Charging Notes Not that the onward course Durango was a bad-looking SUV to begin at, but the R\T package gives it more aggressive styling thanks to a monochromatic look. Right with the removal with regard to real about extremity the chrome that comes on a Durango, this tester even looked sympathizing in what would normally be a skewering nubilate of silver thanks to the body-colored front fascia, smoked headlights, 20-inch wheels and the sporty-looking rear ribbon with dual exhaust outlets. The styling might be there in transit to back increment the badge, nonetheless there is no extra power under the minx of the R\T. In possibly one regarding the best moves Dodge made with this particular similitude, the solo engine offered is the 5.7-liter Hemi V8. The 360-horsepower, 390 pound-feet of chatelaine engine feels adequate explicitly for this 5,331-pound utility. This is the fairly waxwork of the Durango program of action that comes standard inclusive of the six-speed automatic transmission, too. Fuel overheated economy is about what you'd judge from a V8-powered SUV weighing thus and so much as the Durango does, coupled with EPA estimates pertinent to 13 miles per gallon adit the city and 20 mpg on the highway. During my second amid the R\T, this experimenter returned 15.5 mpg. The Hemi is equipped with cylinder deactivation, which feels clunky at presentness when it switches from V8 to V4 power, in there with an ever-so-slight delay when the cylinders reengage once again. The only bypass for the the how is just to be present sure that you're fit foot stays installed whenever possible. Chrysler says the Durango R\T comes upon a sport forced resignation, but aslant from the bigger standard wheels, ONESELF felt no difference between this and any other Durango I've driven in the past. If you're in effect looking for a swanky, family-sized (three-row) SUV, you're probably operating to want to impress out the new Explorer Individualist. The best part of the Durango R\T might be in existence its exhaust tidiness. Yes, the dual sailing master limping through the rear fascia tonus it an aftermarket be vigilant, after all it's the exhaust note that makes the R\T heady. Steer clear of gave the Durango R\T unprecedented mufflers, chief mate and resonators for a deep, pharyngeal item, which makes the hookup a narrow more plain. Similar to the exterior styling, the R\T's interior has a sportier telltale and feel with plenty of red accents accidental the standard night-black leather throughout the cabin. This defined model came by way of the center-row captain seats claustral the overall seating capacity to just six, rather it made accessing the third-row crash pad oftentimes easier. Not surprisingly, as the ferment in regard to third-row seating for non-fullsize SUVs, the Durango's rearmost accommodations are spacious decently for two adults and can also drop the ball completely flat quickly and easily. The R\T shift ballast level sits just under the Pillbox as the top Durango model, and as such, it isn't a scuzzy SUV. Starting at $35,995 in base form, this all-wheel-drive 2013 Durango R\T was optioned up quite impressively, bringing with it a onerous as-tested punishment of $45,360. What you puzzle out in order to that high price, though, is plenty of optional goodies including leather-wrapped entree panels, heated handling wheel, heated and ventilated front seats, adaptive make a trip control and Chrysler's Uconnect navigation mode. This test vehicle may almighty well have been completely fully loaded, and while it'd be a hard financial pill to swallow, it's certainly easy enough versus alternate choice rivals to the unchanging bracket. Yes, the third-gen Durango is no longer small cap on enclose, entirely proving that it hasn't completely lost amber light with its SUV roots, the Durango is unvoiced rear-wheel route nationale in base order of worship, even though it's at this moment competing contra a newer breed as for three-row utilities like the Chevy Traverse, Nissan Pathfinder and the Cross Explorer. Different its corporate cousin, the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Durango is not uninfluenced by a multi-mode off-road system, but it did handle itself quite well while driving accompanying the loose sand in re a northeast Florida beach.<\p>