Good Lord Someone Bought A New Dodge Journey In 2025
There are basically no other automakers that sell as many dead cars as Stellantis does, so it's not exactly a surprise to see ancient cars like the Journey, Ram ProMaster City and Fiat 500X on the automaker's sales sheet. Still, there's no excuse for walking into a Dodge dealership in the year of our lord 2025 and walking out with a brand-new five-year-old Journey. That sort of stuff just isn't acceptable in polite society.
More likely than not, the Journey some poor schmuck bought didn't even have the sort-of-good 3.6-liter Pentastar V6. Odds are, the car was a 2020 model year, and that engine was dropped after 2019 in the Journey. That means someone cruised home in 2025 with a five-year-old brand new car fitted with a 173 horsepower naturally aspirated 2.4-liter four-cylinder mated up to a four-speed automatic transmission. That poor soul.
I'd love to know what sort of sales pitch the dealer gave this person. I'm certain the price was very low, but that really doesn't make up for the fact there are 3 trillion other three-row crossovers for sale on the used market that would be far better than the Journey. In a lot of ways, I'm very impressed. I'd also like to know how five long years went by without anyone noticing this poor, crappy car on the lot.
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That Journey wasn't the only dead car Stellantis sold by a longshot. The company also sold 156 Jeep Cherokees, 370 Jeep Renegades, a single Ram ProMaster City, 341 Chrysler 300s and 74 Fiat 500Xs. Jeep also saw a 10% year-over-year sales decline, Ram saw a 2% drop, Dodge watched sales fall 49% and Alfa Romeo's dropped 15%. At least Chrysler's sales were up 1% and Fiat saw a massive 239% jump, though it still only sold 522 cars in the first quarter.
To make matters even more embarrassing, the now-dead internal combustion-powered Dodge Charger and Challenger outsold the Charger Daytona EV. The automaker sold 1,947 of the electric muscle cars in the first quarter. At the same time, it sold a combined 1,974 gas-powered Chargers and Challengers. That makes a whole lot more sense than a five-year-old Dodge Journey.
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