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Originally Posted by GreaseMonkey  You're missing the point...completely. This isn't a $25,000 car like a Chevy Malibu, or whatever else is in that price range. It's a economy car, injected with steroids. They just didn't add a turbo, and some skirts. Do some research.
The suspension is completely different, the engine has completely different internals, the head is different, the turbo, intercooler, exhaust, wheels, tires, brakes, transmission, interior seats, hood, front fascia, spoiler, front bumper, rear bumper. It also gets the performance EVIC, other leather wrapped items.
YOU'RE STILL GETTING A FUCKING ECONOMY CAR THAT HAS A LOT OF EXTRAS!
Take a $5,000 Mustang, and put $20,000 worth of powertrain into it, and can you compare it with other $25,000 cars? No, honestly you really can't. It is no different here.
I don't think my car is the best, or better than anyone else's. I recognize what it is, and that's what I love about it. If I wanted a car with a nice interior, I'd be driving a VW Jetta with a limp wrist. |
I'm not missing the point. My first statement was I wanted to like this car but the interior is crap for a $25,000+ car.
It doesn't matter what the base price of the car is. Your payments aren't based on $14,000 are they, NO, if you pay $25-$28,000 for a car, the interior should not be a plastic piece of crap like the Caliber is.
After you put an exhaust, headers, etc., on this car as most are talking to improve performance even more, you will end up spending another $3,000 easy and now you've spent between $28-31,000 for a Dodge Caliber that might have 330hp and run pretty quick but it's still a Dodge Caliber. For that kind of money you could buy a WRX STi or even a Pontiac G8 and you will have gotten much more for your money.
You sound like the the extras that they put on the car are custom performance parts. With all the suspension modifications they put on it, it still doesn't handle that good because it's top heavy and putting 19's on it simply to fill the wheel wells wasn't the best choice either. Have fun spending over a grand for tires every 15-20000 miles. Read the reviews on this car they are fair at best and most everyone who wanted to like this car states Chrysler missed the boat on it. They could have refined this car very easily and they chose to put out an ok at best product.
Again I wanted to like this car. It looks great, has great power and good gas mileage but simply is not worth the price compared to other cars out there.