Why in all that is holy does anyone buy them? I keeping seeing them everywhere and I cant really believe it as they seem to have no redeeming features whatsoever.
Is it just me?
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Stu
who knows? I was sat, parked recently waiting for the wife when a Dodge Caliber parked in front of me. I spent 10 minutes staring at a HUGE and very ugly plastic moulding that constitutes it's front end. I suppose if you buy one you're inside looking out!
See jase's thread. It's "We don't like Dodge" night!
JH
Edited by JH on 08/09/2008 at 21:09
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I guess they're different cars and not that many on the roads; and who knows maybe the owners want to drive something different :)
I have to say though, if I did fewer miles, I'd like to get the sebring auto which I think is a 2.4litre and ignore the depreciation or fuel costs. I think the diesels are VW sourced though, so it makes sense to buy what is basically a VW for not much money.
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Second-hand these may be interesting as alternatives to the standard cheap car -- i.e. Korean, Citroen, Fiat or Mitsubishi.
Anyone have any reliable data on reliability?
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VERY cheap second hand.
Not that expensive new after all the discounts but brutal deprecation (see above).
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Thats what sort of puzzled me about the whole thing - Hyundai, Kia and Proton sell reasonable ( some very reasonable ) cars at reasonable prices with reassuring warranties.
Ford and Vauxhall give you more choice and a better general drive than the above, but without the back up of a big warranty.
So then Im looking at these two cars and thinking, it has certainly no more ability than a Hyundai Sonata, but it has just a 3 year warranty so i wouldnt buy it for that either.
As such it would have to be even cheaper at 3 years old than the far eastern offerings because they have warranty to run which makes them accpetable as used purchases.
Couldn indeed be a bargin when warranty expires. The Dodge seems to be the cheapest of the two, year old examples down to under nine grand already with demo mileages. At 3 years old it will have tanked clearly.
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Absolutely -- and with that VW diesel (probably the only modern diesel I'd fully trust) they could be a fantastic "run-into-ground" workhorse for the like of me who often works as a network deployment engineer and makes a bit of cash out of all those work miles.
Hmmm. Hmmm indeed. Must look into these!
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Dodge Caliber SXT CVT I am running my second Caliber as an experienced motorist (42 cars) the Caliber is the absolute best value 2 litre auto hatchback on the rip -off UK market especially if you buy at the low internet price of around £10K. It is obviously not perfect but is better specified than any other car for the price.
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