“if you purchased an EV in 2021-22 when inventories were low and markups were high, you might be upside down right now.”

Your pretty spot on there, but in a heated tire shop garage that has the compressor running all day, you’d be very suprised how hot the air going into your tires can be. If the air going into your tires is 80 degrees or so, and they air them up to 32 or so, you can end up with 23-24 psi in the tires of a loaded up mini…

A set of Nokian snows at 20psi will turn a FWD minivan from a sled into a tank.

As the proud owner of a 1994 Jeep Cherokee, I can assure you that it is not.

It’s a victim of the popular internet theme that Chrysler= Unreliable.

No, we’re in Ohio. But same thing: We’re a small store in the middle of nowhere with 6 salespeople. We still sell around 100 cars a month and half of that business is from over an hour away. 

“The pacifica just isnt as practical as other minivans”

It’s the exact opposite in my experience, less a brand thing than a location thing. When you work in this business everyone knows what the culture is at every store within an hour’s drive.

I can’t. I won’t. I’ve seriously somehow found one of the very few dealerships that is fair, upfront, and employs nothing but truly amazing people.  There isn’t a person working at this store that I wouldn’t trust to watch my kids, and that’s the honest to goodness truth. I’d never leave.

Don’t know bud, but it looks like they picked neither.

TLDR: We dealers are paying A LOT MORE money for poorly engineered vehicles that we make A LOT LESS money on. They got rid of cars our customers want and are charging way too much for cars our customers dont want, and it’s the dealers problem to retain these now pissed-off customers.

Proper gear is everything, but the reality was these things worked well in very specific locales. In extremely hilly, technical wooded trails, they were far, far more dangerous than either 4 wheelers or dirt bikes.

It’s wild, but the Durango has pretty much consistently sold between 50 and 60,000 units a year since 2011, with the highest amount of 70,000 sold in (Checks notes) 2023.

It’s the Amazon Jeep Wrangler headlights for me

It’s not like he slammed it though

They can’t, and they wont. This will be a 4 or 5 year vehicle at most. Enthusiasm is so-so right now and its the first new “True” Dodge product in years. People aren’t even really that stoked about the 6 banger, because dodge has done a horrible job of hyping it. Most people I talk to (customers at the dealership)…

Man, I’ve owned and ridden in more than a few Camaros of this vintage, and they all rode pretty flinty. That thing looks like it rides on a cloud.

I dont always make mistakes when I work on my vehicles, but when I do, I almost always find out after I’ve buttoned everything back up and go to drive it.

Cannot be smashed, you say? 

You would be VERY suprised at how silly you can get with one on stock size tires.