"But in the end, it's still a hatchback"
By adamg - Thu, 12/21/2006 - 10:40am.
Jonny Goldstein and Dave Alpert wander around Back Bay to report on a new phenomenon: Muscle hatches - cars that pretend they're SUVs but, when you get right down to it, are just glorified hatchbacks.
Ed note: Ah, hatchbacks! If it hadn't been for my Dodge Omni, I never would have met my wife (I was down by the curb sanding rust off the front of my nine-month-old Omni and she stopped to ask what I was doing).
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Stick to what you know
Those guys don't seem to know anything about cars.
Ahh, the Dodge Omni
Ah, the venerable Dodge Omni. The first "new" car I ever drove, a 1988 Dodge Omni America. Cheaper than a Hyundai Excel at the time (including a K-Car tradein).
About the only thing this car had going for it was a 2.2 liter engine, because at that point Dodge was just sticking whatever it had left laying around into these things before canceling the model.
After five years, I traded it in for a used Honda Civic. Then I started dating a girl who... owned a Plymouth Horizon.
It was even the same color.
Ah, yes, the 2.2L engine!
That was the only good thing about that car (well, OK, the primo seats my car got by mistake were pretty nice) - everything else fell apart, often several times (damn brakes!), but that engine just kept on going.