Dodge has a habit of floating concepts at Roadkill Nights and gauging crowd reaction before committing. With the Durango R/T 392 Smokescreen Concept, shown in August, the crowd apparently reacted loudly enough. As of October 5, both Smokescreen exterior paint and Petrol Blue Laguna leather seats are open for order on the 2027 Durango lineup.
Smokescreen is a cool light grey positioned as a lighter-shade alternative to Destroyer Grey, which remains available. Where Destroyer Grey leans dark and moody, Smokescreen reads more modern and controlled, a different kind of menace on a three-row SUV with up to 710 horsepower. The color is available across the full HEMI-powered 2027 Durango lineup at $595 in the US and CAD $645 in Canada, bringing the total exterior palette to 10 choices. The nine others are After Dark, Redeye, B5 Blue, Destroyer Grey, Green Machine, Night Moves, Pitch Black, Red Oxide, and White Knuckle.
The Petrol Blue Laguna leather performance seats are a different story. They are exclusive to the Durango SRT Hellcat Jailbreak and priced at $2,995 in the US (CAD $1,995 in Canada). The seats feature dual silver stitching and embossed SRT Hellcat logos, and they come in a six-passenger configuration with second-row captain’s chairs and a full center console, which Dodge notes is standard for the SRT Hellcat. The contrast between the blue interior and whatever exterior color a buyer chooses is considerable; on a Pitch Black or After Dark car, the effect would be striking.
Dodge CEO Matt McAlear framed the quick concept-to-production turnaround as a direct response to Roadkill Nights feedback, saying buyers made clear they loved the color even more in person than in photographs. Whether that constitutes market research or clever theater is a reasonable question, but the result is the same: two options that didn’t exist on the order sheet three months ago now do.
Smokescreen is the third new exterior color Dodge has added to the Durango in three months, which suggests the brand is treating its color palette as an active product rather than a static spec sheet. With Petrol Blue seats aboard, Dodge claims the Jailbreak now supports more than 20 million customization combinations, counting colors, stripes, wheels, brake calipers, badging, and interior appointments.
The underlying hardware is unchanged. The HEMI-powered Durango lineup spans from the 360 hp 5.7-liter GT AWD, which Dodge positions as the most affordable AWD V8 vehicle in the industry, through the 475 hp R/T 392 with its 6.4-liter engine, to the supercharged 6.2-liter 710 hp SRT Hellcat and Hellcat Jailbreak. Neither color option touches any of that. For buyers already committed to a Durango and waiting for the right exterior, Smokescreen fills a gap between the lineup’s darkest and brightest options. For buyers who already ordered a Hellcat Jailbreak in something other than a beige interior, the Petrol Blue seats offer a reason to reconsider.
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