These had HUGE cargo capacity, low load floor, and tons of headroom. If I had a family this would have been my minivan alternative

Ford Flex. It wasn’t a flop, but selling a little over 300,000 units during a run of 12 model years wasn’t enough for the blue oval. Selling a CUV alternative is tough when your customers overwhelmingly prefer a regular old CUV. The cool and funky wagon-ish vehicle lost out bigly to the generic blobs. Sad!

The chrysler one burning oil at 123,000 is still indicative of meh quality.

That’s what kills me: it’s like they got the tiny details right, and then somehow missed the big stuff. Now, the fact that you and I were both driving rentals surely doesn’t help, because they’re gonna be thrashed, but even so: terrible engine and transmission, limp handling, just bargain nonsense all the way around.…

My ex and I had one as a rental when we went to Florida and we both hated it. Maybe it was a particularly abused example but the engine was unpleasantly noisy and harsh and off, the visibility felt awful with the chunky headrests and swoopy roofline, the handling was two steps above baby food mush, etc. But I gotta…

Looks like Kinja is acting up again... anyway - It’s the return of the X-Runner!

In the looks department, it’s wonderful. Easy on the eyes, plenty of trunk space, reliable Mitsubishi six-cylinder. It’s a marshmallow in every sense. Soft seats. Soft suspension. Soft steering. The Sebring is an appliance and that’s fine if you like your car the same way I like my refrigerator.

The 200 (and the Dart) was selling pretty well when it was axed: over 220k per year. FCA killed it because it wanted to make room for more profitable SUVs and pickups. It good pretty good reviews from the press at the time, but lame brained consumers couldn’t separate it from the previous 200.

I got a then-new 200 as a loaner car when one of my cars was in the shop. I was surprised with how nice it was, but I didn’t have it long enough to develop any kind of in-depth opinions.

I had one for a week-long rental back in the summer of 2015, and it was a really good car for the trip. The little selector dial for the gear shift took a little getting used to, but it was a great car to drive from Nashville to East TN to visit my parents that summer.

I had a rental 200 for work a couple years back that I had to take on a day trip to a nearby City.  I really liked driving it.  It was smooth, predictable and comfortable on the highway, and nimble around town.  Definitely an underrated car that should have sold better than it did.  

This is an excellent answer. 

This is an interesting take. My initial response was “dafuq” but your reasoning is sound. I just found the 200 to be supremely boring.

You have indeed died on this hill.

I used to rent a car every few months, because my family lived six hours away, with a five-mile bridge between me and them, and my only car has no doors and sometimes its wheels fall off and so forth. Most of my rentals were random Toyotas and Hondas and Nissans and VWs, and they were all some degree of “fine”. They…

I have a 2010 Fusion SEL 2.5L that has 227k on it, doesn’t burn ANY oil between changes, and does basically the same gas mileage as your 200.

Nothing mechanical done to it .. original engine, transmission, and gaskets.  It isn’t going to win speed contests, but from getting A to B, I’m not sure what would be more…

The #1 car of 10 that ends up in the unwanted- and unasked-for GMG slideshow.

The Model T. Ugh...lousy ergonomics, slow, and didn’t come with even a stereo