Through its first two generations, the Dodge Durango was sort of an enthusiast secret, a quietly competent and unusually fun-to-drive SUV. After shepherding a last-gen truck for 40,000 miles, we concluded, “Does it get better than this? Maybe. But not much.” Sales of the Durango certainly didn’t get any better. After moving 137,148 of the trucks in 2004, Dodge watched Durango sales nose-dive to barely half that two years later and a mere 21,420 in 2008, after which point the Durango disappeared.Now it’s back. If you studied only the critical dimensions, which are nearly dead-on with the old truck’s, you’d be forgiven for thinking Dodge spent the interim working on a face lift. But you’d be wrong. For starters, there’s the small
