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Last week I drove a 2008 stone white Dodge Caliber that had just a little over 38,000 miles on it.  The previous Seattle Dodge owner traded it in for a brand spanking new Dodge Nitro and I was pretty glad he did because it gave me a chance to take it for a spin.

Lately, I have been driving larger cars like the Jeep Liberty and the Dodge Grand Caravan and I am a owner of a very old SUV so it took me a little while getting used to being so low to the ground.  The ride was incredibly smooth because Dodge incorporates Electronic Stability Program(ESP).  This is designed to assist drivers in maintaining control of their vehicle during extreme steering maneuvers. ESP senses when a vehicle is starting to spin (oversteer) or plow (understeer), and attempts to correct the vehicle’s course by automatically controlling the throttle and applying the brakes at individual wheels.
This is a hatchback, but don’t let the hatchback term fool you though.  This sporty 5 door beauty has insane amounts of room.  The engineers at Dodge are ingenious when it comes to use of space.  The rear seats fold forward to 60/40 and the front passenger seat folds completely flat.  It was moving day for me and what that meant was this roomy ride fit A LOT more than my SUV.
It’s the little things that count to me and my all time favorite feature of this car is that it has a refrigerator in the glove box.  That’s right, a fridge.  You rarely see me without a water bottle in hand and it has a cubby to store drinks inside the glove box.  How cool is that?

The cup holders in the center console for said water are also lit up a techno shade of blue which also added pizzazz to the feel of the interior.

The center console slides forward to make room for drinks and it has a convenient place to put your cell phone.  If you carry a purse, you understand how convenient this is.  I don’t care how small or large my bag is, my phone will always get lost in it.

I wanted to test the get up and go of this used Dodge Caliber and so I took it up Capitol Hill in Seattle.  Zippity Zip!  This 162 HP handled the hill beautifully.  It made it glaringly obvious how little power my SUV has left in it.  2008 is the year that Dodge offered the SRT4 turbocharged engine, with 300 HP.  The particular car I drove did not have this, but if you want it, no problem, we have it!  The MPG is fantastic, too.  I drove this Dodge Caliber all over the Puget Sound area and at 30 MPG, didn’t need to stop at the gas station once.
If you drive in Washington, you know how crazy some of the other drivers can be.  With that in mind, it is reassuring that the safety of the Caliber and nine other Dodge vehicles is bar none the best that you can get.  It earned the highest rating in government frontal and side-impact crash test.  Side curtain airbags, multi stage driver and passenger airbags, knee blocker and side seat airbags had me and my passengers covered.
If you’re looking for a new or used Dodge Caliber in Seattle, look no further then your Everett area Dodge dealer, The Rairdon Group.  The Rairdon Group is Washington’s largest volume Dodge dealer serving Bellevue, Seattle, Everett, Monroe, Bellingham and all of Western Washington.

Seattle Dodge Caliber owners have been coming to Rairdon’s for years to purchase new and used Dodge Calibers as well as for our factory trained service technicians and our top of the line Mopar parts.

Please come to one of our four Western Washington Dodge lots and test one of these incredibly affordable and sporty rides.

Our 4 locations are:

Kirkland

Monroe

Smokey Point

Bellingham

We’ll see you soon!