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Dodge has begun the post-Wieden & Kennedy era with more heavy metal and less brotherly love.

The brand, which had been running a Wieden & Kennedy campaign harkening back to founding brothers John and Horace Dodge, has shifted gears with a new tagline — “Domestic. Not Domesticated” — including a pair of new ads backed by the Metallica song “Fuel.”

One spot called “Warning” portrays Dodge as a drug by mimicking pharmaceutical ads with a laundry list of over-the-top warnings like “Dodge may cause loss of inhibitions and in some cases bodily functions.” The campaign also includes a long-form video that shows a robotic “hellcat” animal that transforms into the the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat muscle car.

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