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| 2000 Dodge Neon Review, Ken, From Gresham, OR, USA
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Dodge Neon 4 Door
| | Model of the car: | Dodge Neon 4 Door | | | General comments: | So far I'm very pleased with my 2000 Neon. It's been flawless so far since I picked it up. It's got a nice sporty look with the new front end fascia and body redesign, has gotten nice gas mileage with some occassionally heavy pedal mashing (about 400 miles to a tank so far), and the seats are actually more comfortable that much more expensive cars I've ridden in very recently. I've seen comments about it being noisy at higher speeds, but at 80mph it was still very quiet in my opinion. The stereo controls are a bit difficult to manage while driving. Little things like a decent sized trunk (not counting the fold down rear seats), adjustable height front shoulder restraints, graduated adjust intermittent wipers as standard equipment (rather that a 3 step adjustable or no intermittent at all) and similar touches are very nice to see for such an inexpensive car. Minimal torque steer compared to other front wheel drive cars I've driven. It's just too bad that they make it so expensive to add options because of the package linking. Got mine for under $11,000, and so far (barring future problems) I'd have no trouble recommending one to someone looking for an inexpensive (but not -cheap-) smaller sedan. Oh (welcome to the trivial stuff part of my review) when did manufacturers start recommending you put a manual transmission in reverse when you park, though? And I wish they'd have labelled the ignition key spots. I didn't know there WAS an accessory spot until I hit it by accident. I do like that the interior light comes on automagically when you take the key from the ignition, though. And the way the interior light dims when you start the car rather than just turning off was sort of classy. Personally I'd rather manually turn on the dome light with a switch on it rather than the lighting stalk, though. Random thoughts for those who care... | | | What things have gone wrong with the car: | Option linking..can't get this option without this package and this package. Bumps the price up quite quickly. B pillar blind spot on the driver's side is a bit annoying. | | | Previous car: | 93 Escort LX, 95 Saturn SL2. The Neon is much nicer handling than the Escort was, and comes standard with things that required the LX package for the Escort. The Saturn *seemed* much bigger, although it's not, and it gave the overall feeling of much highe |
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