Neon Diaries

The title is an homage to what I used to call this site…

My ride for the week is a Dodge Neon and up until 2001 when Ply­mouth dis­ap­peared from the car mak­ing map, they both sold the car which were nearly iden­ti­cal. At least when GM badge engi­neered cars that were basi­cally the same, they got dif­fer­ent names and they gave them a dif­fer­ent look by chang­ing the front end, tail lights, etc. Chrysler didn’t even try, the only dif­fer­ence between a Ply­mouth and a Dodge Neon at first was the nose badge. Dur­ing the 3rd model year they broke down and at least added the car com­pany badge on the trunk too.

A woman who works with my wife owns a Neon, hers is a Ply­mouth. A year or so ago she was involved in a lit­tle fender ben­der and off the car went to the body shop. When she got the car back it looked almost bet­ter than when it went in. But there was one small glar­ing mis­take, it had a Dodge badges on it, not the cor­rect Ply­mouth ones. I guess the body shop called their sup­plier up and just asked for Neon badges. She made them order the Ply­mouth ones…