2001 Dodge Intrepid R/T review from North America

Absolutely nothing has gone wrong with this car. My wife drives it every day with out any complaints. It would seem that many of the people who have experienced problems with these cars are simply experiencing poor service from their repair shop or dealer. All of the non-warrantied work is done by myself on my vehicles and since I go out of the way to do things right when I fix them no further problems occur. Unknowing people constantly throw around the word "lemon" at a vehicle that has been improperly maintained. That is the only explanation I can see for the ailments that plage other people's Intrepids. I have two friends of mine who own Intrepids, my company uses one as a courtesy car, my mother in-law has one and a friend of my wife also has one and none of these cars have ever experienced problems outside regular maintenance. It's funny because the car we had before the Intrepid was a 1990 Taurus, another car people like to assess as a lemon prone vehicle. We had that car for 12 years and 267000 km and never had to replace anything more expensive than an alternator and some leaky frost plugs that's it. It always seems that the most problematic vehicles fall into the hands of people who know nothing about them, coincidence, I think not.

This is a great car, I heard a lot of bad things about Intrepids too, but still bought this one because it was a good deal with excellent financing with an extended warranty. So far haven't had to use it. The car is very quick, a terrific highway cruiser and handles very tight. The R/T suspension does wonders for this car. In my opinion this car had everything and more than my neighbors BMW 3-series and can outrun it too for $15000 less and its much cheaper to get parts for.