- The short-lived Dodge Hornet is nearly sold out nationwide.
- Production of the compact crossover only lasted for three years.
- Its Alfa Romeo Tonale sibling might also face an early retirement.
The Dodge Hornet’s short life in North America is almost over. Inventory data pulled from the brand’s own website shows the compact crossover with Italian roots down to fewer than ninety cars scattered across retail lots, and the tap is about to run dry for good.
Dodge launched the Hornet in August 2022 as a lightly restyled twin of the Alfa Romeo Tonale, but the arrangement never had much staying power. The brand sent it to the scrapyard in January 2026, blaming “shifts in the policy environment” for pulling the plug on its second newest model on the lot after the Charger.
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Dealers piled heavy discounts on the remaining Hornets earlier this year to lure buyers. That leaves just 88 units on Dodge’s official inventory list at the time of publishing, priced between $31,590 and $50,775, and that’s before you haggle the markdown you’re all but guaranteed to land.
Cars.com tells a slightly different story, listing 129 new Dodge Hornets of all model years across the country, though many of those ads have likely gone stale, covering cars that already sold without the listing catching up, which would account for the gap. The cheapest is a white 2024 Hornet GT knocked down to $23,990 from a $34,990 sticker. Thirty-nine of them land under the $30k mark.
With the Hornet out of production and nearly gone from lots, the sole survivor riding tall in the Dodge range is the much bigger Durango, a model that has soldiered on with few real changes since 2011. Sharing the showroom carpet are the two-door and four-door versions of the Charger.
Why Kill It?
Killing the Hornet came down to geography. Dodge built it at the Pomigliano d’Arco plant in Italy, which left every car exposed to import tariffs.
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Stellantis also tore up its electrification playbook, and that hurt too. The Hornet was once framed as a key stepping stone toward Dodge’s electrified plans, the plug-in hybrid R/T trim carrying most of that promise.
Then there’s the age of the FCA Small Wide architecture underneath, shared with the Tonale and the last Jeep Compass and dating all the way back to 2005. That aging foundation has since been swapped for the newer STLA Medium, itself due to hand off to the STLA One platform before long.
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Recent reporting points to Stellantis winding down production of the freshly facelifted Alfa Romeo Tonale in November 2027, freeing the Pomigliano d’Arco factory to build a cheaper EV instead. The Tonale would bow out after just five and a half years, closing the book on the Alfa-Dodge pairing sooner than anyone planned.
