Two years ago, I was towing an overloaded trailer with my overloaded pickup with 6 cylinder engine across Pennsylvania. Glued to my tail for 50 miles was a Tesla drafting me. Even when I slowed down to 40 mph on uphills, there was the Tesla. Range anxiety.

Old cars without bench seats didn’t have center consoles, so I would find a box to fit or make a box to go between the seats to contain the stuff that would end up there. Manual transmissions with floor shifter would intrude into the space anyway. My 2006 Dakota Quad Cab with manual transmission doesn’t have a center…

My 1969 Simca 1204 GLS had a low fuel light that came on with exactly one gallon left. It only had a 9 gallon tank, but it got 40 mpg. You couldn’t always trust the gauge, but you could trust the light.

What business wants more than anything is predictability. The Trump years resulted in chaos. Tax cuts are worthless if your basic business climate collapses.

FCA has become a truck company in America, so it can’t meet the fuel efficiency standards. That’s a major reason for the merger with PSA, which is a car company. 

It’s like the South Sea stock bubble of 1720. All speculative value. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/South-Sea-Bubble/

This summer I took my beater 2005 SWB Caravan on an off-road vehicle trail over a glacial moraine full of big rocks and washouts, and it did just fine. In the fall, I took my Journey down a narrow ATV trail full of big rocks and washouts, and it did just fine. I take my vehicles down logging roads on a regular basis.…

PSA has announced they will do no more development work on internal combustion engines. The 19th was the century of coal, the 20th of oil, and the 21st will be the century of electricity. That’s quite clear. The question is not if but when.

An old person can buy one of these sports cars, because they will have other more useful vehicles in their stable, but a young person just starting out? Uh, uh. How stable is their life going to be? How many times will they have to move? This young grad doesn’t need a toy but a useful transportation tool, which may…

I’m going to completely disagree. You’re in the at risk “dumb and stupid” age group, still three years away from neurobiological adulthood, and probably have student loans to pay off. Those are a ball and chain attached to you, so $10,000 to throw at a car is not “cheap.” I’m 71, and I can buy a dumb and stupid car,…

A short wheel base Dodge Caravan with 3.3 liter engine— drives like a car, hauls like a truck, dirt cheap, totally reliable, and about the length of a sedan, so easy to park. Nobody will steal it. Hauls 7, then take seats out and camp out inside (did that recently) on a $50 Coleman cot. Great visibility out, best…

My favorite car of all time was a 1993 Dodge Caravan with 2.5 liter and 5-speed manual. It was small on the outside, big on the inside, drove like a car but hauled like a truck, and averaged 29.5 mpg overall while I drove it. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of grabbing a bottle of previously opened 10-30 weight off…

The back tray is like the one on the PT Cruiser. Very handy. I just watched a video of mountain villages in Japan where over half the population is older than 65. It seems like many of them are driving kei car pickups. Old rural people, not urban young adults, might be just the market for this car.

I’ve had six adults in my Journey with no problem getting them in. Maybe you didn’t operate the seat mechanisms properly. My 250 pound son likes riding in the far back with his 150 pound daughter. I’ll tell you what’s hard to get into, a Kia Sedona. There were six of us in my brother-in-law’s car, and only two of us…

I have a 2013 AWD three-row Journey. I consistently get between 23 mpg (in below zero Minnesota winter conditions) and 30 mpg (summer) overall. Worst ever was in 30 to 40 below weather and got 19 mpg on that tank. I think fuel economy is very dependent on where one drives and one’s driving style. I don’t know how…

Only auto enthusiasts want “small” and “rear wheel drive.” There’s no market for them.

I wish Mopar had made an AWD short-wheelbase Caravan instead of the Journey. Minivans are way more functional than most cars on the road, including trucks. When I was farming in North Dakota, I used a Caravan instead of a pickup as my farm vehicle. Drove it out into the fields too. A SWB Caravan has the best 2WD…

Twice this summer I’ve had someone drive into my yard because they slavishly followed their GPS, which was one mile off the mark.

I doubt it. I’m 71 and know what a dog Pintos were. There’s no comparison to the Journey.

No. It was an inexpensive three-row AWD wagon for people who don’t have money to piss away. For those of us who use a vehicle as a tool for transportation and not a toy, the Journey is a great bargain, especially with the underfloor storage, which is a life saver for those of use who live in America’s Siberia and need…