Comments on: Review: 2009 Dodge Charger SXT AWD

By: charger09

charger09 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:08:45 +0000

One of the best cars ever made

By: Yomama Sophat

Yomama Sophat — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:24:26 +0000

As I work in a company with a large motor pool, I’ve driven Chargers in various itinerations; 3.5 V6, 5.7 Hemi, and 6.1 Hemi SRT8. While the SRT8 is not really my cup of tea (very hard ride on bad roads), the other two are excellent if you like rear-wheel-drive. Why the Charger is not among the top-selling sedans in America, is incomprehensible to me…

By: teahead

teahead — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:51:54 +0000

What sucked is for such a big car, has no headroom in the back; unlike my wife’s 300c SRT8.

By: ricky_b

ricky_b — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:04:29 +0000

i test drove both the RWD and AWD versions of the 3.5 liter V6. As a cruising vehicle, this things is OK but if your’re looking for any sportiness, the V6 packages will disappoint; these Chryslers in V6 will get smoked by every single major V6 FWD on the market.

By: teahead

teahead — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:00:16 +0000

The engineering of this car is excellent!

Too bad that Daimler dictated the interiors to be so cheap in all of Chrysler’s cars b/c Daimler was afraid no one would buy a Mercedes if Chrysler had awesome interiors to match the excellent engineering that went into the powertrains and suspension.

Cerberus tried as of late by sprucing up the Caliber and Compass interiors, and the 300c did get a mild interior change in 2008.

But in 2010, you need EXCELLENCE now in interiors where Subarus now nicer interiors than BMW/Audi just 3 years ago.

Also, Hyundai is starting to kick arse w/their interiors and now, groovy exteriors (see 2010 Sonata).

2011 is not coming fast enough for the new LX re-designs.

By: Long Dong Auto

Long Dong Auto — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:04:24 +0000

Canada Craig, most of the people that post here haven’t even sat in one let alone driven one. Their opinions are like a$$holes, they all have one. I happen to be in the rental car business. I am a service director and also involved in fleet purchases and sales of turnback and risk (cars that we own) units. I buy and sell more cars in a year then most of these yahoos would in 10,000 lifetimes. We also do quite a bit of work with movie production companies so we do short term leases for all makes and models depending on their requirements. I can tell you without hesitation that Chrysler as a manufacturer is one of the products we have the least amount of problems with. Could they improve their interiors? Of course (and they are) but they are not going to deliver a premium interior that competes with luxury cars costing tens of thousands of $$ more at their price point. Also some of their smaller offerings are no longer current or competitive.
I have a 2009 Camry 4 cyl. as a company car and when I sit inside my view is of acres of plastic, allot of which does not fit perfectly together. My wife’s Pacifica Limited cost us 70 cents on the dollar when we purchased it in May and it has been flawless through it’s 1st 7000 miles (we traded a 03 Town and Country with 92,000 miles that never got more than basic maintenance), and the interior fits together far better than my Camry. I’m sure she has just as much fun as her friends in their MDXs and has another $20,000 to work with. I love cars but I refuse to spend a premium (or go into debt) on a “prestige brand” just to impress people that don’t really care what I drive to begin with. Let them spend their money to be seen in their European cars (far worse in terms of reliability and upkeep expense than the Japanese or Americans). I will continue to laugh at them as I drive past.

By: Andrew Ganz

Andrew Ganz — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:53:12 +0000

@armstealer: Apologies for the confusion – I’ve updated the text after speaking with a Chrysler rep. The system is now (from 2009-onward) called “uconnect,” not MyGig. Our test vehicle was equipped with uconnect tunes, the system that includes a hard drive, touch screen display, etc, but not navigation. uconnect does indeed include voice activation, but it would still be nice to have a secondary control on the steering wheel – the roughly $2500 H package adds a Boston Acoustics audio system with steering wheel controls (among other items) and the $1550 uconnect multimedia suite (Chrysler doesn’t capitalize any of the letters) adds navigation and the uconnect system.

Hope this clears things up.

@jayjc08: I couldn’t agree more – although don’t forget that Chrysler briefly offered AWD on the Dodge Avenger, too!

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:25:57 +0000

I never expected the Charger of all things to come with AWD. When I heard about this I sorta chuckled to myself and said “I thought no one could make a rwd/awd car, it was “too” expensive.

By: CanadaCraig

CanadaCraig — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:16:33 +0000

Typical ‘old lady’ responses from most of you. It’s embarrassing. Good for you – though – HalGameGuru – for being more realistic. It is indeed ignorant to make such sweeping, negative statements. And shame on those of you HOPING that Chrysler fails. What a stupid thing to say.

I’ve owned my 300C SRT8 for over 3 years now. It’s been a wonderful, perfectly reliable car. Granted – the SRT8 is different than any V6 powered LX – but NONE of them are a ‘POS’ as some of you think.

I often read the messages posted at this forum. And I have to wonder. Do you guys even LIKE cars?!

By: TW1NTURBO

TW1NTURBO — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:46:30 +0000

i actually always liked the charger, never drove one but im curious to see when it gets redesigned

By: NRG

NRG — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:37:25 +0000

Being the ’68 Charger is one of my most favorite cars, I have a hard time reading articles, let alone, looking at four door Chargers. Creating the four door Charger flys in the face the two door muscle care it should be and was. There was a big uproar about that when Chrysler decided to do that and then there was talk of coming out with a two door. But then the economy happened and now the two door will probably never happen. It’s just blasphemy to do what Chrysler did to this car, despite the optional 426 Hemi. It’s about time they come out with two door. And for God’s sake, lower the weight on it.

By: HalGameGuru

HalGameGuru — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:59:28 +0000

Kudos for the Blues Brothers reference.

Its not a bad vehicle, any use of a generalization to put it down merely tells of the person’s ignorance. if you haven’t gotten one, FRESH from the dealer, not from a rental agency, then you do not know what the vehicle is like. Its like the people who got bent out of shape over the hertz mustangs, if you wait until they’re long in the tooth in a rental agency even something as sporty as a GT350H is gonna start to slip after being abused by so many people who couldn’t drive if their lives depended on it.

By: The Stig

The Stig — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:51:56 +0000

Why you wouldn’t:

You’re too smart to even walk into a Chrysler dealership, let alone drive one of their junk boxes.

By: Blakkarr

Blakkarr — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:25 +0000

So would Chrysler be willing to offer an AWD CHALLENGER? Do NOT forget those mandatory suspension updates for handling. I will not stop harping about that.

By: armstealer

armstealer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:44:16 +0000

“A dumpy-sounding audio system and the lack of secondary audio controls on the steering wheel would also be easy for Dodge to upgrade.” It would also be easy for YOU to upgrade this, buy ordering the model that comes with the upgraded stereo.

Why would you need steering wheel audio controls if it has VOICE ACTIVATED controls with mygig?

Side note: mygig is not shown as an option on any AWD charger, unless it comes included with the uconnect upgrade?

By: cocojoe53

cocojoe53 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:11:05 +0000

Is it “Trail Tested” ?

By: Genesis101

Genesis101 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:01:06 +0000

The back makes me laugh

By: DenverGuy217

DenverGuy217 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:50:09 +0000

If anyone wants one of these cheap, just visit a used car lot that purchases former rental cars. I lost count on how many times I’ve almost been stuck with one of these because that’s all they had left on the lot (and they always seem to have a lot of them). In certain colors they used to look decent, but now I am stuck just thinking of them all as rental crap cars like the former Ford Taurus

By: elmdodge

elmdodge — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:36:40 +0000

better get yours fast before they close the plant ! again

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:33:14 +0000

I’m going to let my wife take this one because I know exactly what she would say:

“Nice car with a typically crappy Chrysler interior”.

What’s really alarming is that I also recall my father saying the same thing about his ’67 Newport.

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:32:37 +0000

If I wanted this, I’d go out and get a used 300C for less than $20k and get a better looking car IMO.

By: 05Z88Path

05Z88Path — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:08:55 +0000

^^militarydave: This “POS” as you call it shares the same platform with the Challenger and 300C. Except for styling, they are all very closely related. I don’t get your logic. Or are you just picking one turd over the other?

By: HoosierHero

HoosierHero — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:05:41 +0000

Another product like the PT Cruiser being left to rust in their development department. Sad thing is, with the grill array Dodge has, updating it a little more each year wouldn’t be that hard ala the Ram.

By: militarydave

militarydave — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:43:30 +0000

I’d prefer the Challenger over this POS. or even the 300 C. plus i got pulled over by one of the city prick cops in a charger so now i hate them (the charger) even more!

lol!

By: Sgt Pepper

Sgt Pepper — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:39:06 +0000

Great all wheel drive. One more thing to break and then have the tech tell you ” UHH there was no code I cant fix it” Dude my traction control light keeps coming on how about you put it on the lift. Hey you never know you might actually figure something out without the computer. Yes I agree. One year and counting.

By: chryslercurse

chryslercurse — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:29:23 +0000

boringggg as always. I still only give them a year ………………

By: infinite

infinite — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:21:09 +0000

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