Saturday, December 18, 2021

Automotif CCLXXI...

The original Dodge Intrepid, from the '93 through the '97 model years, seems to have a fairly low survivorship rate, at least in these parts, relative to its Ford Taurus and Chevy Lumina competitors of similar vintage. You can't swing a shopping cart in a Walmart parking lot around here without hitting a twenty-plus year old Ford or GM hoopty, but Mopars of the era have apparently oxidized away to nothingness or been consigned to the crusher.

I like the looks of the LH platform cars, and the Intrepid was a tremendous aesthetic improvement over the baroquely retrograde Dodge Dynasty it replaced. Of course, by the Nineties the majority of domestic midsize sedans were sold as fleet vehicles, so who knows how important styling is to Hertz and Avis?

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