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Lets start with a piece of good news, for once: A Mac Haik dealership in Flowood, MS sold a Demon 170 (the hyper-fast 1025 hp Challenger) to a service member at $50,000 over retail. Yeah, $50,000. Mac Haik’s chain is well known for gouging everyone, so this isn’t unusual by itself according to Jalopnik.<\/p>\n
Mac Haik in Flowood took an order for a Demon 170 in F8 Green from an unnamed servicemember at a $50,000 markup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The service member was deployed when the car came finally in.<\/p>\n
At some point though, this same Mac Haik franchise allegedly promised another Demon 170 customer a car in Triple Nickel. But that car had allegedly been sold to someone else already, so when this customer showed up after driving eight hours to see the car, the dealer offered them the pending-delivery F8 Green car for more than what the servicemember agreed to pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Karma (pun intended) steps in.\u00a0 The happy new owner posted about his great new car on a Dodge owners’ Facebook site… where the original service member is a member. Oops…<\/p>\n
When this story spread, it appears Mac Haik employees tried to do some damage control\u2014poorly. Screenshots allegedly taken in the private Facebook group where much of this unfolded show William LaGrange, the general manager of a Mac Haik Chrysler franchise in Texas, denying many of these allegations. He claimed no such car was ever ordered in the servicemember’s name (even though a Monroney suggesting such has been shared online), and accused the F8 Green’s intended original recipient of lying about being in the military. The YouTuber who shared images of LaGrange’s comments says Mac Haik employees told them that they’ve been instructed to let this all blow over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, this got to the attention of the Dodge CEO, Tim Kuniskis. The Mac Haik dealer tried to say it was all jake, everyone was happy, nothing to see here….and then Mr. Kuniskis talked to the service member in question. Not only did the dealer lie, by then the car was out of production.<\/p>\n
\n\nNo cars across the nation’s inventory matched the ordered spec, either. The customer who unknowingly bought the F8 Green car arranged to return it to Mac Haik, but with some miles now on it, it wasn’t the car the servicemember paid for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nStill, this story has a happy ending. Dodge held on to 40 Demon 170s to reward its top dealers with, but it plucked one Pitch Black example from the batch. It’ll be sent through Dodge’s Jailbreak program, repainted F8 Green in factory quality, and built to match the original spec the servicemember ordered. This will all be done at no charge, and the car will be sold at MSRP. On top of that, Jay Leno will handle the delivery ceremony at his garage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n