Dollar General has sh•t value. Their prices are bad, especially in poor rural areas where there’s no competition. There are also plenty of Dodge Journeys with badly upside, predatory car loans on them in DG parking lots. DG and Dodge are going after the same customer base.
This car is a favorite among single moms who just started receiving child support. Bedazzled license plate, fuzzy steering wheel and a MLM sticker in the back window
To my UK eyes, was surprised to see it described as an SUV. It basically looks like a small estate (wagon) that's been given the now-compulsory MPV/Crossover treatment of being raised two inches.
My mom owned this car and that's pretty spot on. Crotchfruit is a weird word though and you should feel weird for saying it because that's how others would make you feel if you said it in real life.
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good" "baby all up in this bitch" "fueled by rage and pixie dust" and "I love my pitbull" grace the rear tailgate of the Dodge Journey like horseflies grace cattle. The official car of parents who let their kids watch skibidi toilet videos at full volume during their grandparent's funeral.
In Italy they're called Fiat Freemont. It's the official car of driving in the emergency lane when there's traffic. It's the official car of "I wanted a Jeep but I cannot afford one". The official car of the mechanic who fixes the problem but creates a new one so you'll be coming back.
Okay this, but add the fact that you already drive a Journey for work. In fact you've put tens of thousands of miles on several of them over the years. You spend more than 30 hours per week inside a Dodge Journey. Then you get to Enterprise and are presented with a goddamn Journey... for your week-long ROAD TRIP VACATION. On the plus side, it was an upscale trim with the V6 and awd... that somehow felt slower than the 4-cylinder. There was no plus side.
Almost had one of these as a rental car, but after about 30 minutes in the parking lot trying to figure out how to connect to Bluetooth--I'm not even sure the damn even had it--I walked back in and asked for something else. Got a Jetta wagon instead. Infinitely better!
"Ask your doctor if Stelantis is right for you" "Side effects include: bankruptcy, increased fertility, defulting on loans, overdraft charges, a small pill problem, smoking inside, winter tires in august and scratch ticket related carpal tunnel syndrome."
These Journeys replaced all the light blue buick century and oldsmobile cutlass ciera station wagons as the barely running vehicle that reeks of cigarettes that double park in the fire lane outside the public library
This dude penned a whole fairy tale just to say that the Dodge Journey sucks. That’s commitment right there! BtW, the Journey looks like it could compete win the first-gen Chevy Equinox.
I don’t understand this car. All of them for sale have anywhere between 7k miles to 84k miles, but all of them out in the wild have 181-250k miles with massive repair bills.
My girlfriend's had 285k all original miles on it when the radiator cracked. Sensing future nickel and diming, we sold it to a mechanic a year ago, who replaced the radiator, and has put another 15k on it with no other problems. I'm perplexed at its will to live.
@@valsgrinders8231its one of those cars that, despite being terrible, just kinda hangs around and never quite dies. Kinda reminds me of old altimas or geo metros.
Few cars I have ever driven where it feels like every step of the way, all teams from the engineers to quality control to the assembly lines, were all in the middle of a two weeks’ notice and couldn’t care less about the car they make. The Dodge Journey is one of them
A buddy of mine bought one and after 260 miles it developed an oil leak, took it in and it ended needing a new engine, even had engineers coming in from Auburn Hills to inspect it😂😂😂
“No no. You don’t understand. I would *rather* be in that rinky dink versa than a Dodge Journey. If walking were an option I’d prefer that but here we are.”
The Caliber actually had positive qualities, as poorly executed as they may have been. They had a refrigerated glove box, and an SRT-4 version. The Journey is just.... ick.
@@ytmndan When my wife's minivan was in the garage, the rental company gave us a Caliber. I agree it had a lot of nice features but the execution was awful. Pieces of interior plastic would just come off.
This is a car that says "I have a medical marijuana card, 5 kids by 3 dads, 4 separate food stamp accounts, 2 child support checks and a 540 credit score"
Lol the lack of creativity is just astounding. How many other comments just like this did you read here before you thought it was a good idea to copy them almost exactly?
The first time I drove one of these, I was actually scowling by the end of my drive because I hated it so much. The visibility is horrible, the ride is horrible, the thing looks horrible, the mechanical reliability of this thing is horrible, and this thing has less interior space than the short-wheelbase Dodge Caravan that it replaced. Dodge Journey: The official automobile of getting sent to the principal’s office for a legitimate self-defence.
There was a Journey abandoned on the street in the neighborhood next to mine for two years. I reported that thing monthly and the police only tagged it once because I guess they didn't want the impound yard to suffer from another Journey. Someone scraped the abandoned vehicle sticker off the window so I guess someone was watching it but it never moved and had weeds growing through the pavement around it. It finally disappeared a month ago and I'm curious what happened to it.
Dodge Journey: The official car of people who berate their kid's doctor for diagnosing them with pre-diabetes while the kid is polishing off a bag of store brand Froot Loops.
I was the service manager at a used car retailer. EVERY one of these that we sold came back with needing cylinder heads, camshafts, transmissions and/or valve bodies, struts, springs, and audio units. It was like a tech inspected one of these, we would rejoice to WHAT was working. Anyone who bought it thinking it was a reliable vehicle were always crying to the advisors
probably the worst part about the journey is the fact that the battery is inside the bumper, right in front of the driver front wheel... just like the sedan version of this pos... the avenger.
Oh it's EVIL. Had a GF that needed a new battery for her avenger. We buy the battery at Walmart and they give us some horse shat about a warranty issue so they can't change the battery. That should have been my first clue. It's not the worst spot and wouldn't have minded if they would have made the cables long enough to pull it out and disconnect and connect and put back in. Nope, woulda cost an extra quarter or so getting. Waving a socket around a live battery blind won't end badly? Evil car.😡
I’ve owned a 2013 Journey since January 2014, and that is also my opinion of the worst thing about it (assuming of course you don’t have the 4 cylinder model).
Worked at a Chrysler dealer a few years ago. These cars were... fine, I guess. Nothing special about them, but nothing particularly offensive about them either. Battery placement aside, working on them wasn't too bad. Like with any car on the road, if it's not taken care of, it will fall apart.
These cars were not designed to be purchased by people as personal vehicles, they were designed to be purchased in massive quantities by corporations as rental fleet vehicles. They are carefully designed to tick boxes to fit into specific vehicle classes and this one is the big money maker because it's technically an "SUV", therefore you're paying $100 a day for this when you would have paid $40 a day for a Dodge Avenger.
Those things were honestly an insane deal when dealers were practically giving them away at like 10-12k back in like 2019-2020, with a fuckin 10 year 100k mile warranty. 17k starting for them is absolute highway robbery though
I feel like this is the car you get when you have a 2nd kid on the way, your struggling to stay middle class, you just need a vehicle to haul people and you know nothing about cars.
I drive a v6 awd version for work and I unironically love it. The stereo is great, it's really comfortable, and it's still going strong at 231k miles. It also drives really nice and smooth
100% I got one because we wanted a 2nd car to our minivan. It has 3 rows, cheap, and AWD. I had only 1 issue with it in 7 years and it was a $60 awd sensor covered under warranty.
@@christophercattie I’ve been driving a 2013 V6 Journey since January 2014. It’s got almost 160,000 miles on it, and I’ve no major issues with it whatsoever. Just regular maintenance as needed. The placement of the battery is a real pain. I also own a 2013 Chrysler Town & Country that I bought used in 2017 (it had 40,000 miles on it) it now has around 160,000 miles and it got a new transmission around the time it hit 150,000 miles.
Dodge Journey: the official car of driving in the middle of a 2 way aisle in a crowded parking lot. Dodge Journey: for the driver who slows to 30 mph on a high speed highway to highway ramp, and then speeds back up to 70-80 something. Dodge Journey: designed specifically for the “BuY mErIcAn BrAnD oR dOn’T bUy It At AlL!!!” demographic.
"At least I dont drive no damn Chinese shitbox" says the guy driving a white Journey/Fremont and has spent the price of a MG 3 or Haval Jolion in repairs.
25 is too far back. Say 15, and I'll largely agree. 94+ Rams, 1st Gen Intrepids, Stratuses and Neons... and ZJ/WJ Grand Cherokees were all stellar hits. No better (or worse) than the other 'merrican brands, quality-wise... but nicely designed. Daimler stole Chrysler's soul. Cerberus stole their money. And we were left with this.
I remember the commercials for this car, mainly in the summer where people were sliding downhill on a water slide. I was more fixated on the fun everyone was having and completely ignored the point of it being an ad. Good times being a kid in the 2000s.
Dodge Journey, brought to you by, "Where's your manager, I'm going to be talking to you about him," After telling a mom you can't give her a 10 dollar discount because the coupon expired yesterday
The Journey was supposed to replace the short wheelbase Caravan, We have one where I work, used by the mailroom clerk to make in-town deliveries. Has the 4 cylinder and no options except air conditioning. Low budget fleet vehicle. It feels cheap and has been in the shop multiple times for repairs.Has 30,000 miles on it but feels like 230,000.
Coworker had the engine replaced at dealer under warranty. They accidently shoved a V8 in there. Eventually wrecked the mounts and tranny, a long while later. Imagine that, a dealer installed V8 Journey. Only one I've ever heard of like that.
They did that to me once in n my hellcat. I was getting a new engine under warranty and they accidentally stuck in a 2.4L cylinder. I was driving home and it seemed so doggy. I went right back to the dealer.
2019 Dodge Journey: A car so boring and worthless you have to write a whole arse fable, fully animated, to get a video longer than 10 min thats worth watching lol.
Drove one of these that my family rented on vacation junior year of high school. Good god, it was SLOOOOOOOOOW. Made my mom's Town and Country feel like a muscle car. I imagine it would have been a lot less shit if it had the 3.6L Pentastar instead of that god awful 4cyl.
why y'all hating on it?!? had an '18 Journey from '18 til '20...damn good vehicle! only reason I traded it was to downsize (I like compact cars more...it was bigger than I'm used to driving); 4 cylinder engine & auto trans did their job well enough...not a race car by any measure yet got me from point A to B effectively!
Dodge Journey...official car of the hood rat w/ 5 kids, "great" credit and trying to get to the Maury Povich Show to find the father of atleast one of her 5 kids 😋
I've got a 2011 Dodge Journey Mainstreet, 3.6 AWD with over 100000 on it and the only things I had to replace was my wheelbearing (which I did myself) and replace the battery, which was a pain in the rear, but other than that with regular maintenance it runs fine, it looks brand new, I'm going drive it till it drops.
A co worker of mine (female) had a dodge journey and it was totaled. A few weeks later she showed up with another dodge journey. She said Carlos did you see my new car, I got another journey! My response to her was “why”?
I use a 2017 Dodge Journey as my everyday and it's also what I use as a volunteer firefighter and even though it's a 4-cylinder it drives like V6 and sounds like one too
I saw one up on a hoist a while back. It was 9 model years old. The front subframe or crossmember, or whatever you call it was so rusted that it could snap at any time and the whole front of the car would drop to the ground. Great quality, Stellantis.
On the 6th day God created the minivan and saw that it was good. Then man built the SUV out of vanity and spent the next 100 years trying to turn them back into minivans.
A friend of mine who sells Stellantis products told me that this was the "new" vehicle they would offer to those who credit score was below 620 and no down payment available. Currently going through the same nightmare 😮with the dodge hornet...
Enjoyed this one, was that just a scorcery story in the middle? Awesome. If your ever in VT you can review my 20' Mitsubishi, can sleep the whole crew here easy. Although, i should be careful what I wish for hahaha
I actually like the Journey. For a while I was seriously looking for one, after getting a rental in Florida for a week. They're extremely utilitarian, and that is what I found attractive.
I've been waiting for RCR to take a look at the Journey. We have a 2015 R/T AWD that we bought when our older kid totaled our 2010 Kia Sportage. The kid got my 2015 Kia Sorento with a brand new engine (see KIA/Hyundai 2.4L engine recall). For the Journey, don't think SUV, think tall station wagon. It's a people-mover/mall crawler, not a heavy hauling, "Trail Rated" cousin of a Jeep Cherokee. Also think "dad van", this was marketed as an alternative to the Caravan. My Pros/Cons Pro: 283 HP 3.6L V6 w/AWD I wanted AWD for the snow here in the Midwest. I can get around unplowed streets just fine, and I am aware I will never be able to take this thing "off-road" Pro: heated leather seats, heated steering wheel, remote start, "auto" HVAC system with dual-zones and rear controls, sunroof, and 3rd row seats (the second row slides forward tor 3rd row access and to add leg room for the 3rd row.) Also, the front passenger seat folds flat so I can haul 8' lumber inside. Pro: similar control layout with other MOPAR vehicles. My wife has a 2020 Jeep Cherokee, and the control layout isn't the same, but familiar enough that everything is in relatively the same location. Pro: 20 gallon fuel tank. On state highways (65-70mph), I can get 25mpg or better while the 2020 Cherokee averages about 18mpg with a 15.8 gallon tank. CON: 2012 tech in '2015'. The infotainment system was dated, the in-dash Garmin system could only be updated for a fee. I since updated the HU with a cheap one from AliExpress so I now have Apple CarPlay. The info screen in the dash is also dated and limited in content compared to newer vehicles. CON: transmission, most Journey owners state the transmission for the V6 isn't reliable, so we'll see. With anything, keep up with maintenance and hope for the best.
It's actually one of the most reliable engines on the market. The reason it gets a bad rap is due to how many cars have it. Since it makes up a huge market share, it just seems like it has more issues because of how often you come across it.
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That was amazing storytelling! I could learn from you!
If Dollar General sold cars, they'd sell Dodge Journeys
Nah, dollar general has better value. I'd say a mitsubishi mirage or something
If K mart sold K Cars!
Always look cluttered and abandoned and just spontaneously appears out of nowhere
Dollar General has sh•t value. Their prices are bad, especially in poor rural areas where there’s no competition. There are also plenty of Dodge Journeys with badly upside, predatory car loans on them in DG parking lots. DG and Dodge are going after the same customer base.
This is the car you see with the family stick figures on the back window. Consisting of 8 kids and 3 parents
Lol omfg
Ha ha ha ha ha that's great!
The third parent possibly being the eldest parentified child
Damn 😂
@@Jacadac That, or they're Newcomers/Tenctonese.
This car is a favorite among single moms who just started receiving child support. Bedazzled license plate, fuzzy steering wheel and a MLM sticker in the back window
They love the journey!
I like the Journey RT and GT
I'm literally weak 🤣 that is the most fckn truth I've ever heard 😂
Hit the nail on the head 😅
Can't forget the temporary tag that has been attached for so long, it's faded.
In a world of making everything look like an suv, how do you manage to make an suv look like a minivan?
It's an MPV rather than an SUV is why.
Its a minivan cosplaying as an SUV
I thought it was a minivan the whole time. I just learned it was not from this video.
To my UK eyes, was surprised to see it described as an SUV. It basically looks like a small estate (wagon) that's been given the now-compulsory MPV/Crossover treatment of being raised two inches.
It shares quite a lot with the (Grand) Caravan/ Town and Country/VW Routan triplets. That's why it looks like a minivan.
Dodge Journey, the official car of yelling "DONT YELL AT MY KID!" while a sugar fueled crotchfruit knocks over every display at Marshals.
My mom owned this car and that's pretty spot on. Crotchfruit is a weird word though and you should feel weird for saying it because that's how others would make you feel if you said it in real life.
@@BigShittinyou tell him
I'm going to use crotchfruit from now on. I will never say child again.
I thought that I was the only one who said crotchfruit! Glad to see someone else use it in context!
@@BigShittin I say crotchfruit all the time. In real life. It's fine. Everyone survives.
"I solemnly swear I am up to no good" "baby all up in this bitch" "fueled by rage and pixie dust" and "I love my pitbull" grace the rear tailgate of the Dodge Journey like horseflies grace cattle. The official car of parents who let their kids watch skibidi toilet videos at full volume during their grandparent's funeral.
Beautifully said.
You forgot one: “Powered by bitch dust” in the -Disney- Gisnep typeface
actually lost it LMAO good one
"Well behaved women seldom make history."
@@pguth98that's always on a subaru or an old corolla.
In Italy they're called Fiat Freemont. It's the official car of driving in the emergency lane when there's traffic. It's the official car of "I wanted a Jeep but I cannot afford one". The official car of the mechanic who fixes the problem but creates a new one so you'll be coming back.
Lol
the italian altima?
In Australia it's a dodge journey and fiat Fremont.
@@adorablecenturion8436 the Italian altima is the Fiat 500X
Pretty sure the mechanic doesn't need to create new problems; I think the car can take care of that itself just fine.
when you said 2019 my mouth hung open it looks like a 2009
The dash, Ac controls look like 1999
Omg I didn't realize it was a 2019... wtf??
It had barely been updated since 2009 and still ran a 4 speed gearbox
They originally came out in like 2007 and barely updated them for almost 20 years.
Very few changes over it's life
“Here’s a fable” “shit”
“Fables over” “That was awesome”
The fable was the best part.
i miss literary theory time, even if presented by a deflecting faux mea cupola issuer
This feels like losing the rental car lottery at the Lehigh Valley International Airport late on a rainy Sunday evening
Okay this, but add the fact that you already drive a Journey for work. In fact you've put tens of thousands of miles on several of them over the years. You spend more than 30 hours per week inside a Dodge Journey.
Then you get to Enterprise and are presented with a goddamn Journey... for your week-long ROAD TRIP VACATION.
On the plus side, it was an upscale trim with the V6 and awd... that somehow felt slower than the 4-cylinder. There was no plus side.
@@falken111 reading this was bad for my mental health, giving me flashbacks to my days on the road. Well played
Now it’s a Hornet. Never have I ever been so disappointed in a car. Thanks Avis!
Almost had one of these as a rental car, but after about 30 minutes in the parking lot trying to figure out how to connect to Bluetooth--I'm not even sure the damn even had it--I walked back in and asked for something else. Got a Jetta wagon instead. Infinitely better!
You put way more effort into the parable than Dodge put into the Journey.
"Ask your doctor if Stelantis is right for you"
"Side effects include: bankruptcy, increased fertility, defulting on loans, overdraft charges, a small pill problem, smoking inside, winter tires in august and scratch ticket related carpal tunnel syndrome."
🤣
Hey now! I do all that and I have a GMC😂😂😂
“…3 Dodge Avengers in a trench coat…” is wild 😂
He was giving it a lot of credit there. It's more like 1.5.
honestly I just want to see the RCR Avenger//Caliber review again
Man, it’s weird that you’d write a full fairytale for this. I’m here for it.
Sometimes I get weird literary compulsions for absolutely zero reason. 😅
@@LimitedTimeRoman Don’t tell mr regular but you’re the best part about RCR.
These Journeys replaced all the light blue buick century and oldsmobile cutlass ciera station wagons as the barely running vehicle that reeks of cigarettes that double park in the fire lane outside the public library
...and it only goes to the library for the wifi.
Dodge Journey - a rolling credit score indicator.
Dodge Journey: the official car of "you have no right to tell my kid how to act" as the goblin smashes 5 glass jars of Pasta Sauce at Walmart
The official car of "My 600lbs life".
Every single episode they had this thing.
or clapped out Explorers and Chrysler vans
It's morbidly amusing to watch Mr. Regular die inside as he's filming the ad integration.
hearing him say "oh it's so good" like an unenthusiastic sex worker committed to doing the bare minimum to get paid.
@@throwback19841 suppressing the urge to say "it tastes so BROOOOOOOOOOOWN" must feel tragic
@@FlymanMSwet cardboard BROOOWWWWN
@@FlymanMS😂😂😂
@@throwback19841 Yeah. Baby. Oh it's so good. (slight pause while switching from craigslist to TikTok)
This dude penned a whole fairy tale just to say that the Dodge Journey sucks. That’s commitment right there!
BtW, the Journey looks like it could compete win the first-gen Chevy Equinox.
Same demographic, subprime customers
The Journey makes a 1st gen Equinox look like a Range Rover
The only thing that prevents the Journey from being the bottom is that it can fit more people than the Dart.
I don’t understand this car. All of them for sale have anywhere between 7k miles to 84k miles, but all of them out in the wild have 181-250k miles with massive repair bills.
I wonder why 💀
My girlfriend's had 285k all original miles on it when the radiator cracked. Sensing future nickel and diming, we sold it to a mechanic a year ago, who replaced the radiator, and has put another 15k on it with no other problems. I'm perplexed at its will to live.
@@valsgrinders8231its one of those cars that, despite being terrible, just kinda hangs around and never quite dies. Kinda reminds me of old altimas or geo metros.
@@valsgrinders8231 it is terrified that any future failure will relegate it to being driven by a society wrecker aka single mother
The Royal Decree and the Knights of Stellantis defending the landfill kingdom from stink bugs got me
I sometimes wonder if Pennsylvania is a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Stellantis given we're overwhelmed by stinkbugs.
"It drives like it runs on Windows," I'm ded 💀
VISTA
V I S T A
They might not be old enough for the Vista reference, which is the only thing that made this joke make sense.
@@2Loto I'm pretty sure we got it. My first windows was 95. XD
@badass6300 they was meant for the original commenter, as I don't know their gender. Not sure why you're stepping in.
178 hp in a roughly 4,000lbs vehicle is criminal.
Few cars I have ever driven where it feels like every step of the way, all teams from the engineers to quality control to the assembly lines, were all in the middle of a two weeks’ notice and couldn’t care less about the car they make.
The Dodge Journey is one of them
A buddy of mine bought one and after 260 miles it developed an oil leak, took it in and it ended needing a new engine, even had engineers coming in from Auburn Hills to inspect it😂😂😂
When you see 3 white shirts, 2 engineers, and a 3 piece suit in a group, you know something is wrong.
Stelantis sounds like a pokemon
Stellantis sounds like a drug advertised on TV
An ED drug.
The lesson here: when dealing with sorcerers, be very specific and DO NOT skimp on the details.
No, the lesson here: DON'T
The official car of refusing an upgrade at the rental car counter and keeping the Versa you ended up getting stuck with because your flight was late.
I'm going to the US soon I'll try to remember this😂😂
“No no. You don’t understand. I would *rather* be in that rinky dink versa than a Dodge Journey. If walking were an option I’d prefer that but here we are.”
Finally, an actual bad car in the race to the bottom
Last time I was this early, the doctors put me in an incubator
Stellantis is reggaeton: was its own unique thing, but now they just make low effort copies of what ever is popular.....but in spanish
And, spoken as a Puerto Rican, it was arguably never really any good in the first place.
You could see this coming when Dodge made the Caliber, which is like a scale model of the Journey.
The Caliber actually had positive qualities, as poorly executed as they may have been. They had a refrigerated glove box, and an SRT-4 version. The Journey is just.... ick.
@@ytmndan When my wife's minivan was in the garage, the rental company gave us a Caliber. I agree it had a lot of nice features but the execution was awful. Pieces of interior plastic would just come off.
2013 RCR: honda accord, business accounts, buttplug
2024 RCR: there was a queen...
😂😂😂
Why not both?
@@nickb20 oh im here for both
Roman: "Once upon a time..."
Mr. Regular: "BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN-"
This is a car that says "I have a medical marijuana card, 5 kids by 3 dads, 4 separate food stamp accounts, 2 child support checks and a 540 credit score"
Lol the lack of creativity is just astounding. How many other comments just like this did you read here before you thought it was a good idea to copy them almost exactly?
@@2Loto you sound bitter. Like a Chrysler owner
I click on these types of videos the fastest because it's guaranteed not to be a 22 minute mug ad
"It drives like it runs on Windows Vista" is a great line for us old millennials
I just booted up a mid 2000s MSI gaming laptop that my grandpa owned for some reason and it was running Vista. So this slowness is fresh in my mind.
The first time I drove one of these, I was actually scowling by the end of my drive because I hated it so much. The visibility is horrible, the ride is horrible, the thing looks horrible, the mechanical reliability of this thing is horrible, and this thing has less interior space than the short-wheelbase Dodge Caravan that it replaced.
Dodge Journey:
The official automobile of getting sent to the principal’s office for a legitimate self-defence.
Chrysler designed the Journey to compete with the Ford Pinto and GM's Vega,
There was a Journey abandoned on the street in the neighborhood next to mine for two years. I reported that thing monthly and the police only tagged it once because I guess they didn't want the impound yard to suffer from another Journey. Someone scraped the abandoned vehicle sticker off the window so I guess someone was watching it but it never moved and had weeds growing through the pavement around it. It finally disappeared a month ago and I'm curious what happened to it.
@@bwofficial1776 Some scrap metal guy picked it up.
Dodge Journey: The official car of people who berate their kid's doctor for diagnosing them with pre-diabetes while the kid is polishing off a bag of store brand Froot Loops.
I did not expect Roman to teach me a lesson in humility through the lens of a fable today.
Looks like the engine is entirely made of plastic.
I was the service manager at a used car retailer. EVERY one of these that we sold came back with needing cylinder heads, camshafts, transmissions and/or valve bodies, struts, springs, and audio units. It was like a tech inspected one of these, we would rejoice to WHAT was working. Anyone who bought it thinking it was a reliable vehicle were always crying to the advisors
The seamstress queen story had more effort put into it than what Chrysler put into the journey
I feel so sorry for whoever owns these, because most them were owned by people who don’t know anything about cars.
Just like Teslas.
That's 98.5% of people
probably the worst part about the journey is the fact that the battery is inside the bumper, right in front of the driver front wheel... just like the sedan version of this pos... the avenger.
Oh it's EVIL. Had a GF that needed a new battery for her avenger. We buy the battery at Walmart and they give us some horse shat about a warranty issue so they can't change the battery. That should have been my first clue. It's not the worst spot and wouldn't have minded if they would have made the cables long enough to pull it out and disconnect and connect and put back in. Nope, woulda cost an extra quarter or so getting. Waving a socket around a live battery blind won't end badly? Evil car.😡
I’ve owned a 2013 Journey since January 2014, and that is also my opinion of the worst thing about it (assuming of course you don’t have the 4 cylinder model).
Worked at a Chrysler dealer a few years ago. These cars were... fine, I guess. Nothing special about them, but nothing particularly offensive about them either. Battery placement aside, working on them wasn't too bad. Like with any car on the road, if it's not taken care of, it will fall apart.
I thought the Dodge Journey was an ugly minivan. You're telling me it's supposed to compete in the crossover segment?!
These cars were not designed to be purchased by people as personal vehicles, they were designed to be purchased in massive quantities by corporations as rental fleet vehicles. They are carefully designed to tick boxes to fit into specific vehicle classes and this one is the big money maker because it's technically an "SUV", therefore you're paying $100 a day for this when you would have paid $40 a day for a Dodge Avenger.
Dodge Journey: The vehicle before an open warrant puts you in an Altima.
If a Senta makes you angry, you should try a Mirage. While reviewing it, remember that it's more expensive than a Versa.
Those things were honestly an insane deal when dealers were practically giving them away at like 10-12k back in like 2019-2020, with a fuckin 10 year 100k mile warranty. 17k starting for them is absolute highway robbery though
I feel like this is the car you get when you have a 2nd kid on the way, your struggling to stay middle class, you just need a vehicle to haul people and you know nothing about cars.
I drive a v6 awd version for work and I unironically love it. The stereo is great, it's really comfortable, and it's still going strong at 231k miles. It also drives really nice and smooth
100% I got one because we wanted a 2nd car to our minivan. It has 3 rows, cheap, and AWD. I had only 1 issue with it in 7 years and it was a $60 awd sensor covered under warranty.
the 4 cylinder version was so pointless though
You're strapped to bed inside a padded cell,and your memories of a dodge journey is a hallucination.
@@christophercattie
I’ve been driving a 2013 V6 Journey since January 2014. It’s got almost 160,000 miles on it, and I’ve no major issues with it whatsoever. Just regular maintenance as needed. The placement of the battery is a real pain.
I also own a 2013 Chrysler Town & Country that I bought used in 2017 (it had 40,000 miles on it) it now has around 160,000 miles and it got a new transmission around the time it hit 150,000 miles.
lmao im glad someone has a positive take on this. my uncle also drove one for work for a period of time. he said good things about it.
The Dodge Journey is the hungover co-worker that sends a text asking you cover for him.
Kid: I want Stellaris!
Parent (gesturing to Stellantis logo): We have Stellaris at home.
Dodge Journey: the official car of driving in the middle of a 2 way aisle in a crowded parking lot.
Dodge Journey: for the driver who slows to 30 mph on a high speed highway to highway ramp, and then speeds back up to 70-80 something.
Dodge Journey: designed specifically for the “BuY mErIcAn BrAnD oR dOn’T bUy It At AlL!!!” demographic.
"At least I dont drive no damn Chinese shitbox" says the guy driving a white Journey/Fremont and has spent the price of a MG 3 or Haval Jolion in repairs.
So Mr. Regular. Pawn off the original RCR off to The Roman. And Mr. Regular just reviews the nice stuff got it 👍🏾
I was waiting for the day you guys covered this trash can on wheels.
Ill never understand anyone who voluntarily purchased a mopar vehicle in the last 25 or so years... pure garbage!
The Town and Country/ Pacifica and recent chargers are surprisingly decent as long as they weren’t bought from a buy-here-pay-here
My 2nd gen Caravan ran for 252k miles with the 2.4l. I'd happily own another, it was easy to work on and incredibly useful.
25 is too far back. Say 15, and I'll largely agree. 94+ Rams, 1st Gen Intrepids, Stratuses and Neons... and ZJ/WJ Grand Cherokees were all stellar hits. No better (or worse) than the other 'merrican brands, quality-wise... but nicely designed. Daimler stole Chrysler's soul. Cerberus stole their money. And we were left with this.
I remember the commercials for this car, mainly in the summer where people were sliding downhill on a water slide. I was more fixated on the fun everyone was having and completely ignored the point of it being an ad. Good times being a kid in the 2000s.
Dodge Journey, brought to you by, "Where's your manager, I'm going to be talking to you about him," After telling a mom you can't give her a 10 dollar discount because the coupon expired yesterday
If my comment makes it to the top I'll ask Mr. Regular out on a date
It has functional A/C is the highest praise a Dodge Journey has ever received.
Every time I feel bad for driving a rogue I just observe a journey and realize I couldve done worse.
You know a car is bad when the Roman tells a fable
A Dodge Avenger wagon.
The Journey was supposed to replace the short wheelbase Caravan, We have one where I work, used by the mailroom clerk to make in-town deliveries. Has the 4 cylinder and no options except air conditioning. Low budget fleet vehicle. It feels cheap and has been in the shop multiple times for repairs.Has 30,000 miles on it but feels like 230,000.
Smoking cherry tobacco in my pipe, sitting in a rocking chair on the porch, and enjoying RCR. It's a good morning!
Last time I was this early she called me cheap, low effort, garbage
Stellantis will forever sound like a car brand from GTA to me
Coworker had the engine replaced at dealer under warranty. They accidently shoved a V8 in there. Eventually wrecked the mounts and tranny, a long while later. Imagine that, a dealer installed V8 Journey. Only one I've ever heard of like that.
They did that to me once in n my hellcat. I was getting a new engine under warranty and they accidentally stuck in a 2.4L cylinder. I was driving home and it seemed so doggy. I went right back to the dealer.
ITS A 2019? How, it looks so damn outdated. Could be a 2011
They came out back then
They really just didn't update it much at all. Even kept the 4-speed auto till the end.
They refreshed the car in 2011 and made little change until the discontinued it
As someone who grew up with all the old Windows OS's, better Vista than ME.
Ok
2019 Dodge Journey: A car so boring and worthless you have to write a whole arse fable, fully animated, to get a video longer than 10 min thats worth watching lol.
Drove one of these that my family rented on vacation junior year of high school. Good god, it was SLOOOOOOOOOW. Made my mom's Town and Country feel like a muscle car. I imagine it would have been a lot less shit if it had the 3.6L Pentastar instead of that god awful 4cyl.
I really got caught up in that fable you wrote Roman! It felt like I was listening to an audio novel, really cool story! ❤
why y'all hating on it?!? had an '18 Journey from '18 til '20...damn good vehicle! only reason I traded it was to downsize (I like compact cars more...it was bigger than I'm used to driving); 4 cylinder engine & auto trans did their job well enough...not a race car by any measure yet got me from point A to B effectively!
Dodge Journey...official car of the hood rat w/ 5 kids, "great" credit and trying to get to the Maury Povich Show to find the father of atleast one of her 5 kids 😋
I've got a 2011 Dodge Journey Mainstreet, 3.6 AWD with over 100000 on it and the only things I had to replace was my wheelbearing (which I did myself) and replace the battery, which was a pain in the rear, but other than that with regular maintenance it runs fine, it looks brand new, I'm going drive it till it drops.
A co worker of mine (female) had a dodge journey and it was totaled. A few weeks later she showed up with another dodge journey. She said Carlos did you see my new car, I got another journey! My response to her was “why”?
Why did she get another one?
@@lamontsimpson4871 she likes it.
@@carlosnumbertwo 😂😂
I use a 2017 Dodge Journey as my everyday and it's also what I use as a volunteer firefighter and even though it's a 4-cylinder it drives like V6 and sounds like one too
Dodge Journey, the official car of "my Equinox doesn't have a third row"
Dodge Journey: it’s the Kmart of cars. Outdated, cheap no one wants to be seen near one and there’s like 2 left in existence.
they even sold this in Europe & UK where this is a big car
I saw one up on a hoist a while back. It was 9 model years old. The front subframe or crossmember, or whatever you call it was so rusted that it could snap at any time and the whole front of the car would drop to the ground. Great quality, Stellantis.
goddamn what a fairy tale with all those ups and downs. then BAM that ending!
On the 6th day God created the minivan and saw that it was good. Then man built the SUV out of vanity and spent the next 100 years trying to turn them back into minivans.
"3 dodge avengers in a trench coat"
fukken ded
This the car that Altima drivers “upgrade” to lmao
I was not expecting a full-blown fairy tale to emerge from a review of this bland SUV. Well done.
A friend of mine who sells Stellantis products told me that this was the "new" vehicle they would offer to those who credit score was below 620 and no down payment available. Currently going through the same nightmare 😮with the dodge hornet...
Enjoyed this one, was that just a scorcery story in the middle? Awesome. If your ever in VT you can review my 20' Mitsubishi, can sleep the whole crew here easy. Although, i should be careful what I wish for hahaha
Roman is missing out on writing new fairy tales, children's books. Dude could make mint.
I actually like the Journey. For a while I was seriously looking for one, after getting a rental in Florida for a week. They're extremely utilitarian, and that is what I found attractive.
Dodge Journey, the official car of “I know less about cars than someone that doesn’t know anything about or care about cars”
6:00 in the morning 🥱
I've been waiting for RCR to take a look at the Journey.
We have a 2015 R/T AWD that we bought when our older kid totaled our 2010 Kia Sportage. The kid got my 2015 Kia Sorento with a brand new engine (see KIA/Hyundai 2.4L engine recall).
For the Journey, don't think SUV, think tall station wagon. It's a people-mover/mall crawler, not a heavy hauling, "Trail Rated" cousin of a Jeep Cherokee. Also think "dad van", this was marketed as an alternative to the Caravan.
My Pros/Cons
Pro: 283 HP 3.6L V6 w/AWD I wanted AWD for the snow here in the Midwest. I can get around unplowed streets just fine, and I am aware I will never be able to take this thing "off-road"
Pro: heated leather seats, heated steering wheel, remote start, "auto" HVAC system with dual-zones and rear controls, sunroof, and 3rd row seats (the second row slides forward tor 3rd row access and to add leg room for the 3rd row.) Also, the front passenger seat folds flat so I can haul 8' lumber inside.
Pro: similar control layout with other MOPAR vehicles. My wife has a 2020 Jeep Cherokee, and the control layout isn't the same, but familiar enough that everything is in relatively the same location.
Pro: 20 gallon fuel tank. On state highways (65-70mph), I can get 25mpg or better while the 2020 Cherokee averages about 18mpg with a 15.8 gallon tank.
CON: 2012 tech in '2015'. The infotainment system was dated, the in-dash Garmin system could only be updated for a fee. I since updated the HU with a cheap one from AliExpress so I now have Apple CarPlay. The info screen in the dash is also dated and limited in content compared to newer vehicles.
CON: transmission, most Journey owners state the transmission for the V6 isn't reliable, so we'll see. With anything, keep up with maintenance and hope for the best.
Pentastar junk, worst reliability of a vehicle I know of
I have the pentastar 3.6 in a Chrysler 300. I second that emotion.
It's actually one of the most reliable engines on the market. The reason it gets a bad rap is due to how many cars have it. Since it makes up a huge market share, it just seems like it has more issues because of how often you come across it.