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If Dodge had been as committed to the Neon as Toyota or Honda have been to their small cars it would probably still be around today. Instead, US automakers unwilling to commit to anything for the long haul because they're so excessively reactive. The moment a model hits a weak spell they neglect it, all but guaranteeing its demise. Then they think they can recapture a segment with a half-assed new model like the Dart. As for teens not driving, I've actually heard a few say they have no desire to learn because it looks stressful. Given driving conditions in America today I can't say I blame them.
Hope this dude isn’t too sentimentally attached to this piece of shit. My Dart’s engine detonated at 120,000 miles. Along with a myriad of other issues such as poor wiring that led to the passenger side head light assembly catching fire, the entire front suspension system going out at 80,000 miles, along with the thermostat around the same time. And apparently, these are common problems.
My first "real" car post college was a 2013 Dart with the 1.4L turbo and 6-speed manual. What an utter disappointment of a car. It was fine, but there are so many other better options out there...
Mk7.5s use the DQ381 7 speed transmission, the Mk7s previously used the DQ250 6 speed DSG. Idk how you miss basic information like that when it's generally available..
Caliper covers?! C'mon Nate. Not only do they look ridiculous (people who don't know don't care, and people who do know find it pathetic), but they're a safety hazard as they don't allow brakes to cool and also can fall off, causing big damage to wheels/brakes/undercarriage. Oh, and increased unsprung weight.
I had a 2014 Dart, I honestly really liked the car but it was in the shop about once a month with mechanical/electrical issues during my year of ownership. I went back to Honda and haven’t looked back..
Every time I see one of these in the wild I think of "Staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window", that morning of 2015 I literally saw a red Dodge Dart like 15 minutes before seeing the video, if you know what video you know
I feel so targeted by the fact you knew normal families have a Mitsubishi Outlander, It's the first time in a while these have deeply related to me, It really is magic how you do that
I have a 2022 Chevy spark 1.4 automatic, this car is awesome , yeah it’s a small car but when you kick the gas you feel it , i used to drive as well Kia picanto 1.2 but I didn’t enjoyed the same it feels like on mountain roads Kia is getting choked , with sparky I can easily drive high roads mountain roads and etc and most of it I like that the engine is pretty silenced.
All of the people buying a 4 door car with trunk space while asking for a compact car not wanting an SUV is going to buy a hatchback, and hatchbacks are actually becoming more and more attractive as they have been for years even for being occasionally cheaper or as cheap as a cheap sedan, so in the mind of the new car buyer, they will tend to lean towards getting a hatchback, rather than a gaudy and often big SUV which ends up being too expensive, and the crossovers tend to be a compromise if you really want an SUV but something that isn't too expensive. The suv has become the luxury item for either one person or a family. Though you might say 'well thats the point': it actually wasn't. The idea for an SUV was to be a sporty utility vehicle, it's in the name, you buy it for utilitarian uses, nowhere is it intended to be luxurious, but car manufacturers have done as such and now, trying to compete with other car manufacturers for the SUV market, everyone is making their SUV's look luxurious and pricing them as such, singling out a part of the market... the budget new car buyers who are now forced to buy a hatchback or a crossover if they want a 4door car with trunk space if they want to buy new.
About the only lineage this shares with the Dodge Dart is that it'll rust away before it turns 20. Although, I'm not 100% sure it doesn't only share that lineage with the Dartre.
I have my 2nd 2014 Dodge Dart. I had one when it was new, hated it. My wife had/has an identical one. I got her a new car and now drive another black 2014 Dodge Dart as a beater/commuter. It's almost completely worthless, beat up, but runs and drives well.
A note on the sponsor's product: if it's fertilizer for a lawn, you should wear gloves. Even if it's organic or they say it's not "harsh chemicals", high nitrogen sources that are organic are not something you want under your fingernails and then getting into your food or mouth later. I sold lawn care products and took enough college level chemistry and industrial safety classes to know that plant fertilizer isn't something you want on your bare hands, no matter what it is. I would also put good money on their dandelion Doom just being 2-4-D herbicide, which will kill any broad leaf plant that it is sprayed on. It might have the stuff in it to kill clover and crab grass as well, if you tell them you want to do that. You can find out these things on the internet or pay for kits like these. If you have a big lawn, the kits are going to be more expensive.
There is a Dart in my neighborhood with some custom exhaust (probably straight pipe). The noisiest, slowest thing around. Still, gotta commend him for it.
So while yes this review is well over 2 years old by now, the reason this car has like 40.000$ worth of stuff in a 25.000$ package is cause Piëch had this tendency to throw luxury car components across so many models that you end up finding Audi parts in the VW (not the other way around). The problem is that Piëch wasn't a big dude on the importance of reliability because he was bringing the complex cars from the Audi brand down to VW giving us the pain of needing to deal with the technology and other parts failing so often in a VW product. Still, your point that you should only buy this car because you want to enjoy the feeling of a new car makes sense, and the only competitor I'd put it up against at this point is a Honda Accord (the 2023+ ones, not the 10th gen at the time)
Thank you for the well done review of this interesting vehicle. I found your historical commentary on Philly giving me food for thought since my grandparents lived in The 4400 block of Osage Avenue from 1953 until their deaths. Late 1980s and early 2000s respectively. Their only vehicle was crushed by a tree in the late 1950s so they were heavily dependent on the nearby trolley and bus lines to conduct their day-to-day affairs.
Lol, you think teens can get an apartment at 18? Not anymore! My kids can't achieve what i did only 25 years ago. Greed, it's what caused this streaming pile of crap to get greenlit, and my kids to not be able to rent.
