Buick also moved up 10 spots to number nine. Unfortunately, Fiat was the lowest ranking back in Alfa Romeo gracefully took that title for The manufacturer currently offers the sedan, Pacifica, and Voyager for Consumer Reports scored the sedan a 78 out of Above all, it received a score of four out of five for both the predicted reliability and owner satisfaction.
It came with an extremely cheap interior think Chevy Camaro cheap that's been beaten with the ugly stick. The handling was also mentioned by several reviewers as poor and underdeveloped. Essentially just a four-door Challenger, the Charger gets points for looks, but scores low in reliability. Chief among those are the recalls concerning the cruise control not being able to turn off, as well as the faulty alternators which could cause engine stall.
Another recall talks about the front driveshaft bolts coming loose and there are quite a few concerning the airbags. The V6 engines have their share, but we admit, this could simply be from overzealous drivers fantasizing about owning a car with a V8 engine. Compass, the Jeep without any type of purpose, joins the list of the most unreliable Chrysler vehicles, according to JD Power and several other publications.
The powertrain seems to be the biggest hindrance to the Compass. But there is acre upon acre of hard, cheap plastic. The Compass is truly a vehicle with no direction, pun intended. We agree.
When is a Jeep not a Jeep? Just re-read this entry until you get it. While a massive inch wing, a non-functional fake scoop and plenty of tacky bodywork parts is something that normally only a Camaro owner would understand and approve of, the limited-edition Ram Daytona only seemed to disappoint its intended user base.
Limited-edition or not, the Ram Daytona inherited the massive pain that was known the Dodge Dodge is actually lucky the Ram Daytona was a limited-edition truck, as it seems no one really misses it. Out of logged complaints on the NHTSA website, the majority of them focused on corrosion problems at the engine rocker assemblies and from within the subframe.
Owners felt that the problems were being ignored, and sales took a massive dive. A lot of times I think you're best to seek out a good independent auto repair shop. A shop that's going to look for the best source for parts. If you buy things from the dealer they're often way over priced. I've seen this with so many of these marriages between different car companies. Ford and Mazda, Chrysler, Mercedes, often if you go to a Mercedes dealer you can get the parts for a lot cheaper than you can actually buy them from the Chrysler dealer.
Just a little tip if you own one of these cars. Not saying Of course, we want your business, but find a good independent shop that can take care of it because they can look around for better options than the dealership. Quite frankly, a lot of dealers don't really know how to fix these things.
Even the Jeep diesels their level of expertise is not as high as some other shops. Mark: What about some of the older vehicles that are going to be on the used market like the Intrepid or the Neon? Bernie: Definitely vehicles I wouldn't recommend. The Intrepid had a lot of issues with coolant leaks, steering, parts wearing out, electrical issues. They weren't fantastic vehicles.
Neons, there used to be a lot of those cars on the road. We rarely ever see one. We had a client a couple of months ago that wanted, we did a bunch of work on it. The car is still chugging along pretty good, but certainly they're the kind of car they lose their value so much by the time they need some sort of major repair it's better just to scrap the car than fix it.
With the PT Cruiser, now that's another. It's a little flashier of a car. That's basically based on a Neon. Again, same sort of level of problems. If you have a PT Cruiser convertible maybe you might want to fix that because it's a little more special of a car. Yeah, those are a couple of vehicles I would avoid.
Bernie: No. It makes me sad to say so because I'm a mopart guy at heart. My first car was a 69 Dodge Dart I had a lot of friends who had fast Chrysler products from the late 60's, early 70's.
They were awesome cars, pretty reliable, and fast, and fun, good looking cars. Even the Dodge Slant Six was a super reliable vehicle. The fact that it shares a name with its parent company that just a decade ago narrowly avoided bankruptcy doesn't help, said David Zatz, a blogger who follows Chrysler closely. It also has a thin line-up. Chrysler currently offers just two vehicles. One is the , a chunky luxury-like sedan.
The other is a the Pacifica minivan which is available as a plugin hybrid. Chrysler could become a "people carrier" brand, Marchionne said at a recent investors' conference. Strictly speaking, that term could apply to any sort of vehicle, but it usually means minivans like those Pacifica plug-in vans that Waymo is using to shuttle people around using driverless technology. Dodge at least has some meaning, and even actual fans, thanks to its association with muscle cars like the Challenger, and other cars and SUVs with powerful engines.
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