{"id":61180,"date":"2022-04-19T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T14:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=61180"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:38","slug":"dodge-brand-brings-the-chief-donut-maker-competition-to-the-finish-line-with-a-three-part-reality-web-series-premiering-april-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/press-room\/2022\/04\/dodge-brand-brings-the-chief-donut-maker-competition-to-the-finish-line-with-a-three-part-reality-web-series-premiering-april-19.html","title":{"rendered":"Dodge Brand Brings the Chief Donut Maker Competition to the Finish Line with a Three-Part Reality Web Series Premiering April 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dodge brand\u2019s search to fill the \u201cgreatest automotive job in the world,\u201d which began\u00a0this January, is about to come to its head-spinning supercharged conclusion! With over 173,500 applications submitted for the highly-coveted position, the brand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/video\/2022\/03\/dodge-names-top-10-chief-donut-maker-candidates-seeking-the-greatest-automotive-job-in-the-world.html\">announced the top 10 finalists<\/a>\u00a0last month. Beginning today (Tuesday, April 19), Dodge will begin airing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/chief-donut-maker\">three reality show style webisodes on\u00a0DodgeGarage<\/a>.\u00a0Episodes feature the top 10 finalists competing in high stakes challenges to prove they have the knowledge, character, and drive to win it all.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis exhaustive, one-of-a-kind\nprocess to find our Chief Donut Maker, the person who will help lead the\nautomotive industry\u2019s most engaged automotive fan base into its electrified\nfuture, is now coming to its dramatic conclusion,\u201d said Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis.&nbsp;\u201cWhile our top ten candidates have shown they have what it\ntakes to make the first cut, there can be only one Chief Donut Maker. Now our\nfinalists will be put in high pressure scenarios beyond burnouts and donuts, to\nprove that they possess the power to represent&nbsp;the world\u2019s purest performance brand&nbsp;as the ultimate brand\nambassador for the Brotherhood of Muscle.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fans can watch the three webisodes on\u00a0DodgeGarage\u00a0to see who comes out on top winning the Chief Donut Maker\u00a0position which includes a $150,000 paycheck, keys\u00a0to a Dodge Challenger SRT<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Hellcat, and access to some of the auto industry\u2019s most epic events for an entire year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/chief-donut-maker\">The first installment debuts on Tuesday, April 19,<\/a> followed by the second installment on Friday, April 22, then the highly anticipated final webisode  on\u00a0Tuesday, April 26 (HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Day) will reveal the first-ever Chief Donut Maker.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0finalists, who include Abbie K. (Burley, ID), Artie S. (Brooklyn, NY), Corrie M. (Las Vegas, NV), Edgar C. (Taylorsville, UT), Jamie H. (Birmingham, AL), James O. (La Vergne, TN), Lauren F. (Las Vegas, NV), Melissa W. (Highland Lakes, NJ), Pauline Y. (Monterey, CA), and Preston\u00a0P. (Pineville, NC), will be thrown\u00a0into wild, hot-seat scenarios, including an interrogation, a live screen test and racing a Dodge horsepower heavyweight at Radford Racing School (with a professional driver on a closed track).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dodge has enlisted <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"champion wrestler\u00a0Bill Goldberg (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goldberg95\/\" target=\"_blank\">champion wrestler\u00a0Bill Goldberg<\/a>\u00a0to oversee the competition, with appearances from celebrities including\u00a0Joey Wells and Will \u201cSpank\u201d Horton from Kevin Hart&#8217;s Muscle Car Crew, NHRA champion Matt Hagan and sportscaster Katie Osborne.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlights and teasers will also run across the brand\u2019s social media channels leading up to the final webisode on April 26, including Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.\u00a0The Chief Donut Maker search is part of the brand&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/never-lift\">Never Lift\u00a0plan, which provides a 24-month road map to Dodge&#8217;s performance future<\/a>.\u00a0 HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Day (April 26), celebrated by Dodge and Mopar fans everywhere, is a reference to the legendary 426 cubic inch HEMI V8 built from 1964 through the 1971 model year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dodge brand\u2019s search to fill the \u201cgreatest automotive job in the world,\u201d which began\u00a0this January, is about to come to its head-spinning supercharged conclusion! With over 173,500 applications submitted for the highly-coveted position, the brand\u00a0announced the top 10 finalists\u00a0last month. Beginning today (Tuesday, April 19), Dodge will begin airing three reality show style webisodes on\u00a0DodgeGarage.\u00a0Episodes feature the top 10 finalists competing in high stakes challenges to prove they have the knowledge, character, and drive to win it all.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThis exhaustive, one-of-a-kind process to find our Chief Donut Maker, the person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":61182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2627],"tags":[2986],"class_list":["post-61180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-room","tag-never-lift"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CDM-Finals_Episode-1_Feature.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61180"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61211,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61180\/revisions\/61211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}