84Cressida

I've driven several Neons. I don't care how spacious or innovative the "cab-forward" design was, they were turds. Seeing a 90s era Neon is rare in my area and the ones you do see have sheets of paint flaking off or blown head gaskets.

As for contemporary reviews, lots of automotive rags in hindsight have regretted saying nice things about certain cars. The Renault Alliance, Vega, Pinto come to mind.

spwolf

it was crap car for sure... my buddy got one when we were students because it was cheapest thing he could find and not too old.

My0gr81

A Chrysler mechanic at a dealership once told me "Neon, Dart, Jeep, they are all four letter words". I figured he wasn't refering to nice words.

mmarshall

I don't want to necessarily second-guess a trained technician, but, with all due respect, I don't see how he can make that statement about the Dart. It has only been on the market a few months........clearly not long enough to have established a pattern of mechanical problems.

LexFather

Not denying if they are turds but at the time the media was fapping off to them like they were the 2nd coming.

Its always funny to read the same media forget what THEY WROTE. My points aren't really about peoples opinions but these journalists who don't even take the time to read what their employer wrote a decade ago.

84Cressida

He's probably talking about the old Dart, even if that's been gone for decades.

rld14

The company I work for has a Chrysler store, the Dart is selling as fast as we can get them, think we've sold 6 in the past week. I drove it and I was pleasantly surprised; this thing has a surprisingly good suspension.

It's good for what it is, before I'd pay $25k+ for a Dart I'd buy something nice that was used.