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Dodge Journey crossover - SUV test drive and car review
Nov 10, 2024
Dodge Journey crossover - SUV test drive and car review from allpar.com. No snarkiness, just telling how it is - politically incorrect though it may be to find good things to say about a Dodge car. See the crossover / SUV / minivan replacement inside and out and go for a ride with us.
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carga the gauges all bounce up the gauge
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is all about the effects first thing
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that we noticed about this car is that
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it dents out the bumps very nicely the
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second thing that we notice is how
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smoothly it shifts and the third thing
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that we notice is how quiet it is with
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absolutely no wind noise of these speeds
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which is really pretty amazing so if you
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want the sensation of going fast go
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ahead and get yourself at 74 valiant
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travel 25 miles an hour and you'll feel
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so you're going faster than you do in
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the journey 65 so it's a nice luxury car
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in sort of field and as you look across
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the dashboard instrument panel you see
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that there is chrome everywhere of
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course that's partly because this is in
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our team model from scratch at night to
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total work going Ford where the roof and
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root supports are a sort of light cream
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color
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so the corner is actually very good in
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this car it's actually surprisingly good
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once you've seen how much this car
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weighs the engine is very quiet one of
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the nice features about the journey is
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the Emerson storage the PT Cruiser might
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be whole - then they look it taking a
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lot of things like this this car doesn't
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have a bucket like that the case when he
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came off the tracks and wasn't always
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convenient instead it has this little
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sporty character a 30 keep doors open 90
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degrees and the day taunts though are
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fairly loose so you can't really rely on
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them staying open 90 degrees we have the
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little booster seat here which well
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notice how I'm operating it from above
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that's because I discovered that when
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you grip it like this as might be
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natural you pinch your fingers and then
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you dance around cursing for a few
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minutes which isn't the best thing to do
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in front of money we've just put in
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administration
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set up three knobs here aren't this one
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these were to hold up let's try that
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again let's hold it and you'll notice
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that the bottom also comes up a little
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bit that helps to go all the way forward
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and then a full-grown adult can see my
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head a full-grown adult can actually get
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into the back seat now keep in mind that
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Julian flexibility exercises every day
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definitely helps but that said the seat
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belt is not getting the way and once
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here I've got this cute tall tunnel here
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for my feet like actually go back and I
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actually figure on five foot eleven I am
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sitting comfortably in the rear seat of
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the Dodge Journey without my head
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touching anything as long as a McCoy
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lean back
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such a headrest and the ceiling I don't
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mean back I don't I've got this little
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Aimable LED and in front of me I can see
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out the window because I'm little bit
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higher than you'd think
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now if I want to get out first of all
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that was one important
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now if I want to get out defendants
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right here and the seat will fold neatly
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in front of me and I just keep on going
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and I'm out
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another nice thing about the journey is
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that the middle seats can go forward and
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backwards so that when there's nobody in
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the back will be beep back like this and
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they'll stay there
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what's more there's a little compartment
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underneath which contains one of these
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little bit
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hold back hold back toward now
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that's up cargo net
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now one of the things that's really nice
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about this car is that when it's not
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loaded with people it's really got a
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pretty nice ride it takes nasty bumps
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and such in dry you know potholes
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jiggles right now we're going over
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pretty nasty Road and in some cars this
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would almost be painful but in the
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journeys
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it just seems soak it all up while still
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giving you some decent Road filled the
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all-wheel drive or on the messy gravel
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surface is too much
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the gas mileage is not particularly
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impressive around town driving
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moderately gently the trip computer
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photos that we're getting around twelve
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and a half miles per gallon the highest
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that we've gotten so far
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paying very close attention to trying to
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get the gas mileage up has been 14
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exactly fourteen point zero most of the
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time we've hung around the 14 before
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starting up the engine the dashboard of
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the journey is fairly dull and small
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however when you turn it on you suddenly
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get this very impressive display which
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is actually quite pleasant to look at
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there's my finger and you see now it's
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telling you the gas mileage we're just
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going to zoom in there now that's
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actually our gas mileage it's pretty
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pathetic as you go down you see distance
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to empty and a timer you can choose if
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your units are metric or American and if
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you go through then you also find that
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you can see all your error messages if
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there are any and you can set personal
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things like language weather the locks
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unlock automatically when you exit
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weather pressing the remote button once
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unlocks every door adjust the driver
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store and these other ones which you can
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probably figure out for yourself
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and here you see the way that I like
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them at least and then we're back to
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compass calibration then the pulse
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setting for this up here you can put in
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your sunglasses if you want to or you
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can set it so that you can look at your
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rear passengers presumably your kids
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which is very nice for any parents
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climate control system in this
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particular model we have an RTE and it's
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got a bunch of options the three zone so
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you can set it up separately for driver
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passenger and rear or you can just set
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it off entirely with into reverse and
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assuming that you've got the rear video
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you see exactly what's behind you here
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we have another clever feature the iPod
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dock connector is actually modular so if
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Apple changes their dock design your
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journey will still be current and useful
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the people who have bought these cars
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say that they just love the flexible
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interior they like the look of the
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outside and the inside they really like
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the quiet sound they are using it to
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replace minivans and they just seem to
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really like it
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Chrysler's big problem is going to be
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getting people into the showroom to give
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it a chance
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and again I'd like to remind you visit
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all part comm we have lots more journey
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