It got recycled, and now it looks like this - a 2008 Dodge Caliber - or as the guys on the Service Desk call it, "a third generation Neon".
Funny - it doesn't look like a Neon, and it hasn't got a traditional automatic transmission like a Neon, and it's a real 'Creampuff' unlike the Neon, but it has the same kind of get-up-and-go and the same good handling and it's made by the same people, but more recently. It can't decide if it's a minivan or a car, but it does both those very well. It also knows how to pass a gas station while it is out there playing in the traffic, and passing some of that too. Maybe it is related to the Neon of old after all.
So what really happened to the 13-year-old Neon? It's going back to school, with the daughter of one of the mechanics at the dealership, and she's going to love it just as much as I did, I betcha, and with only 40,000 original Kms on it yet, she will have lots of driving left in it yet. Who knows? It might make it to voting age yet.
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