Used Car Of The Day: 2001 Dodge Intrepid
Today we're going cab forward with this customized 2001 Dodge Intrepid.
This one needs work -- it has an engine knock. It also has a Chrysler LHS front clip and 300m interior. There are well over 300K miles on it.
Outside of the engine issue, everything else, including the A/C, supposedly works.
There's a long list of mods -- to see it and learn more about this car, click here. This one is for sale in Florida for $1,100.
[Images: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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LOL! Big No to this one. Does that really reference an LH? Here in Canada that grille style and placement was a short lived cousin called Concord. Anyway it looks kind of ghetto. Also the rear end doesnt wear that kind of spoiler well. The car had a reasonably clean and attractive silhouette ( maybe evoking a supersized sedan version of early 90's Civic coupe or Celica?) Doesnt seem to lend itself to much customization aside front lip & deiscrete skirts, and not a good enough car to be worth tbe effort.
These were highly disposable cars - built to seem a good value in the showroom and on the test drive but better return it after the lease term and God help you if you buy an old one. The few reediming qualities were the excellent but non-fussy instrument cluster ( overlooking the cheap interior plastic of the centre pannel controls). In addition to good interior space it was one of the last sedans with a big enough rear door opening that was easy to step in and out of despite the plunging roofline.
These were actually very visible on the roads here in Toronto in part helped by representation in fleets, but they virtually disappeared by 2012 despite the fact you could buy a used on under $3000, probanly because tbe cost of keeping one on the road just didn't make sense.