Jay Leno didn’t discuss with suburban Detroit’s Woodward Dream Cruise simply to break jokes.
He additionally had a automotive to pick out up.
The comic helped kick off the yearly Motor Town birthday party of vehicle tradition by means of showing with Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis to announce a brandnew form of co-branded automotive serve merchandise. Later he was the primary buyer to shoot supply of a 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 “Last Call” version.
Leno mentioned he ordered the 1,025-hp Demon, which prices $103,361 then transport and fuel guzzler price, in March when he helped unveil it in Las Vegas. The particular version, which marks the Challenger’s ultimate week of manufacturing as an inside combustion automobile, is his fourth automotive with four-digit horsepower, he instructed The Detroit Information.
“I’m a huge fan of Dodge,” he mentioned. “To me, it’s a great American road car.”
Leno mentioned he most well-liked to be on the Dream Cruise this hour rather of hobnobbing on the Pebble Seashore Concours d’Class in California. “They eat kale in California,” he instructed the Information. “It’s good to be in Detroit where they eat real food. I enjoy Pebble Beach, but it’s $5,000 a day. The Cruise is free. It’s a hamburgers and hot dogs celebration.”
Dodge mentioned its Direct Connection efficiency portions category will promote greater than 20 detailing and automotive wash merchandise thru its partnership with Jay Leno’s Storage. Leno and Kuniskis spent the Dream Cruise match burning rubber in combination alongside Woodward Road and handing out sovereign samples of the brandnew merchandise.