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2009 Dodge Avenger
To bring you this comprehensive review on the 2009 Dodge Avenger, TheCarConnection.com has researched all the best review sources on the Web. The editors of TheCarConnection.com have spent time behind the wheel of several different Avenger sedans and brought their driving impressions to help make the advice and information in this review most useful. Likes Exterior styling dares to be different Spacious backseat Good fuel economy (four-cylinder) Dislikes Rough, noisy, and sluggish base engine Road noise Chintzy cabin materials 2009 marks the second year of production for the Dodge Avenger, the latest mid-size sedan offering from Chrysler. The 2009 Dodge Avenger shares some styling with its big brother, the Dodge Charger, but features a lower starting price and a range of four- and six-cylinder engines. While originally available with optional all-wheel drive, that model has been discontinued, so front-wheel drive is the only configuration available. read the full bottom line review Jan 6, 7:47 PM
To bring you this comprehensive review on the 2009 Dodge Avenger, TheCarConnection.com has researched all the best review sources on the Web. The editors of TheCarConnection.com have spent time behind the wheel of several different Avenger sedans and brought their driving impressions to help make the advice and information in this review most useful.
Likes
Exterior styling dares to be different
Spacious backseat
Good fuel economy (four-cylinder)
Dislikes
Rough, noisy, and sluggish base engine
Road noise
Chintzy cabin materials
2009 marks the second year of production for the Dodge Avenger, the latest mid-size sedan offering from Chrysler. The 2009 Dodge Avenger shares some styling with its big brother, the Dodge Charger, but features a lower starting price and a range of four- and six-cylinder engines. While originally available with optional all-wheel drive, that model has been discontinued, so front-wheel drive is the only configuration available.
Why would you post this?
If that car had an interior suitable for human
beings and they changed the engines then it wouldn’t be all that bad. Easier said then done I guess.
Havent these got old mercedes underpinnings??
time to lay off the bottle, Vince.
The Avenger is the embodiment of Chrysler’s failure–a mediocre sedan that offers nothing unless it can be bought for a cheap price.
I don’t know about the 4 cylinder model, but if you open the hood and look for the battery in the V6, you’ll find it buried so deeply under engine hardware that it probably takes most of the day to get the battery out of there. Great engineering, you Chrysler guys!
The Avenger’s grotesque styling is responsible for a huge blind spot in the rear–inexcusably bad, even among many cars with lousy rear visibility.
Why would anyone even consider buying this consummate rental car POS?
1) The ’09 had an upgrade to interior materials from the origional ’08 offering.
2) Why are you reprinting an article from another publication? Did you sell this blog to CarConnection? Are you going to stop attending shows (like NAIAS) and taking you own photos and giving your own thoughts???
What’s with the random post, Vince?
One of the absolute worst cars in production today. However, you’d probably have more positive comments about it than any Honda you’ve ever tested.
This effort is one of the reasons Chrysler should not be allowed to exist anymore.
There’s not an once of Mercedes in these turd. Crossfire was last gen SLK and the 300C got some E-Class part, like transmission.
I think the closest relative to the Dodge Avenger/Chrysler Sebring horrors is the Mitsubishi Lancer. Mercedes when it was DCX relied on Mitsubishi for much of its smaller car engineering.
Anybody looking for Mercedes DNA in the Avenger is on a fools errand.
It’s sad that the Stratus was more respectible. This thing is the afterbirth of the Charger….which is in itself a 1996 Mercedes E-Class with down syndrome.
It was always hard to tell the '96 Mercedes WITH Downes Syndrome from one that had everything working and reliable because a LOT of the Merc's in '96 had DNA problems. The ONE thing decent on the E-Class was the IRS suspension (which was later upgraded further and made standard on the Charger–for 1/3 the price). Of course Merc's under $80,000 never had the power, handling, gas mileage, or ergonamics of the the Carger–but at 2 – 6 times the price what do you expect? I LIKE the styling of the Charger & Avenger and told my Mercedes dealer that just last week. He assured me that the gorgous sharp and angular lines of the Charger and Avenger were a strong influence on Mercedes, and Future Merc's (like the GLK & next E-Class) would be more to the liking of the artistically gifted. I'll wait & see.