CTC Review: 2009 Dodge Journey

[airbalancer]

ALERT!!! Enviro-crazie at large!!! ALERT!!!  Roll Eyes

In the absence of either reason or skills to reason, name calling is preferred some and condoned by many. 

Too bad that this conduct does nothing to reduce the grief and hopelessness that other fellow Canadians are going through at the gas pump.  
So sad it is.

Gas is still cheaper then cup of coffee at Timmys, or at Starbucks
If you need the product you have pay the going rate

[carcrazy]

The difference is 0.6L/100km.

The Journey is so slow I found it unbearable at times.  For me 0.6L/100km is nothing, that's 75 cents over 100km. 

+1.

An I4 engine in a vehicle this big and heavy doesn't make any sense. The minor fuel economy gain (if at all) is not enough to offset the huge loss in driving experience. Load this vehicle up with four adults and gear and go to the cottage ... or not.

I see this combination more and more as a marketing gimmick – smaller engine with better fuel economy… Yeah right!

[Schmengie]

Gas is still cheaper then cup of coffee at Timmys, or at Starbucks
If you need the product you have pay the going rate

Not quite an accurate analogy, unless you drink 40 or 50 liters of Starbucks at a time.
As for paying the going rate, who has a choice? You either do or you don't, but I take Analagous' point that today's gas prices hurt those who can least afford them.

[Analogous]

I know many here like to place emphasis on power and speed and in the end you help promote something to Canadians that is not very good in the long run.  As I type this I am reminded that my husband is no longer employed because of the GM plant closures in Ontario and now we are even thinking of moving back to his home province because now the only way he can do some work is by driving far and often.  Just looking for work hurts a lot in gas costs alone all the while trying to make ends meet with little money.  Even with the little I know about cars I see 10 L/100km is not good and only in our country would that look OK for some.

So I urge you to think about those canadians whose stress at the pump is only made worse by the the cars and trucks you promote on a regular basis.  They might have been fine or ok at one point but at the moment and going forward they amount to nothing but insensitive advice that digs us further and deeper into the mess many families are in.

I don't speak as an environmentalist and I am appalled at the cruelty that some here resort to protect their likes.  I speak as somebody who has no choice but to make life changing sacrifices to make ends meet and almost all the families that were impacted by the plant closures have a similar story to tell. We drove the cars our loved ones assembled and they were the wrong cars.
If you really love cars, my advice to all is that you start putting a little more effort into the cars we should have been building.  Maybe trucks and vans were never right for many canadian families like mine but the quest for more power and waste made that look good and that has to stop for the sake of many.

God bless you all.

[quadzilla]

^^^  You have some good points but you missed the most important one. People are free to choose what vehicle they want to drive. CTC does not brain wash their readers into buying the cars they review. If somebody bought a gas guzzling pig of a SUV 2 years ago because gas was cheap....suck it up. What did you think would happen?

[inco]

I'm sorry that the job is gone and the plant is going through change. but look at it as a chance to go out and try something different and new.

People lose their jobs every day for many different reasons but what they do about is the character or fibre that they are made up of to go out and start again. Winners  do that.

Life isn't always fair and lots of things go wrong - sickness, diseases, storms, layoffs and even deaths of loved ones. Can't avoid everything. Having a good mental attitude and understanding that some things we cannot control goes a long way to helping us get through the tough times.

Now it's your opportunity and good luck.,

[safristi]

 ... Ya BLEW the $100,000 already.....

[Snowman]

I know many here like to place emphasis on power and speed and in the end you help promote something to Canadians that is not very good in the long run.  As I type this I am reminded that my husband is no longer employed because of the GM plant closures in Ontario and now we are even thinking of moving back to his home province because now the only way he can do some work is by driving far and often.  Just looking for work hurts a lot in gas costs alone all the while trying to make ends meet with little money.  Even with the little I know about cars I see 10 L/100km is not good and only in our country would that look OK for some.

So I urge you to think about those canadians whose stress at the pump is only made worse by the the cars and trucks you promote on a regular basis.  They might have been fine or ok at one point but at the moment and going forward they amount to nothing but insensitive advice that digs us further and deeper into the mess many families are in.

I don't speak as an environmentalist and I am appalled at the cruelty that some here resort to protect their likes.  I speak as somebody who has no choice but to make life changing sacrifices to make ends meet and almost all the families that were impacted by the plant closures have a similar story to tell. We drove the cars our loved ones assembled and they were the wrong cars.
If you really love cars, my advice to all is that you start putting a little more effort into the cars we should have been building.  Maybe trucks and vans were never right for many canadian families like mine but the quest for more power and waste made that look good and that has to stop for the sake of many.

God bless you all.

Try working in the mining industry where we live and die on free market pricing with frequent boom and bust cycles. When operations shut down we pack up and move on without crying to the government for handouts to save our jobs. Suck it up.

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