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2012 Dodge Journey consumer reviews

$18,995 starting MSRP
side view of 2012 Journey Dodge
(121 reviews)
77% of drivers recommend this car
Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 4.4
  • Interior 4.3
  • Performance 4.1
  • Value 4.1
  • Exterior 4.4
  • Reliability 4.1
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Nice

We got this Journey last week with only 156 miles on it. Now it has over 600 miles. Good driving. Love how the turning ratio is, and how smooth it does turn. Do with we got with a blue tooth. Never had Siruis XM and we are liking it came with a free one year trail offer. Might sign up for that when the year is done. We are getting about 22 mpg on both high way and city driving on average. Getting the teflon coating on the exterior done and having the interior doing for the stain guard. Glad we went to this from a 2002 Dodge Caravan. Was looking at a Chevy Equinox and a GMC Terrain, and got the Dodge Journey SXT.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 4.0
  • Interior 4.0
  • Performance 4.0
  • Value 4.0
  • Exterior 4.0
  • Reliability 4.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Does recommend this car
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Good buy

we enjoy the way it rides and handles. We like the way it fits when sitting in the front seats, the seats fit very well for a short legged person. Getting the Grandchildren into the 3rd seat is very easy and then to put their seat belts on them. All the hiden compartments in the floor are really nice.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 5.0
  • Interior 5.0
  • Performance 5.0
  • Value 4.0
  • Exterior 5.0
  • Reliability 5.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Does recommend this car
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Love My 2012 DJ

Have been getting 24-26mpg on freeway; around 20 in town. Love the 8.4" touchscreen. Great interior styling. Wish there was a little more leg room as I am just over 6'0". Great power from the 3.6L V6. Great storage. Great vehicle!!!

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 4.0
  • Interior 5.0
  • Performance 5.0
  • Value 5.0
  • Exterior 5.0
  • Reliability 5.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Does recommend this car
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Lots of POWER with inside comfort!

Enough room for 7. All seats adjust back and forth for leg room specific to each passenger. Driver's seat adjust easily for comfort of short people, and tall people.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 5.0
  • Interior 4.0
  • Performance 5.0
  • Value 5.0
  • Exterior 5.0
  • Reliability 5.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Does recommend this car
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Do not buy!

I bought the Journey for my family of 5...3 kids under 7. I have had the car for only 13k miles and need new tires, rotors and the bottom of the doors are rusting. The Kumo tires are a unique size and run $250 each with no options for other brands due to the size. That is going to be $1000 a year for tires! I wish I reasearched the tires before I bought that alone would have change my purchase. The rotors have a warranty for 12k miles and the delearship wouldn't fix them until I called Dodge Consumer Relations and got them involved. I will be trading this in soon!

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 1.0
  • Interior 3.0
  • Performance 2.0
  • Value 1.0
  • Exterior 1.0
  • Reliability 1.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Used for Transporting family
  • Does not recommend this car
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2012 Dodge Journey

We bought a 2012 Dodge Journey in June 2012. We had been looking at several different vehicles and decided on the Journey. We bought the 6 cylinger version with the blue-tooth and 3rd row seat. We have made several 200 mile trips since buying and it rode very well. THe average gas mileage is running 23 to 24.5 on the highway and about 22 around town. We have found no noises, squeaks etc. The programming of the blue-tooth was very simple and automatic. Our phones loaded into the system with the push of a buttom and system defaults to the phone that is the nearest to the center console. The seats are comfortable (including the 3rd row seat) and support your body well. We are extremely satisified with the vehicle that we bought.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 5.0
  • Interior 5.0
  • Performance 5.0
  • Value 5.0
  • Exterior 5.0
  • Reliability 5.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Used for Transporting family
  • Does recommend this car
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More room to go.

We are retired, travel & wanted a car that was realiable, reasonable & provided room to pick-up four people at an airport. The seven passenger Journey is perfect. It gets reasonable highway gas mileage and plenty of room for all.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 4.0
  • Interior 4.0
  • Performance 5.0
  • Value 5.0
  • Exterior 5.0
  • Reliability 5.0
  • Purchased a Used car
  • Does recommend this car
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Love my Journey!

I have always wanted an SUV but because of my commute and gas prices, I couldn't afford to. I have always been a Mopar person, but I reviewed a lot of different vehicles, but was still led back to the Journey. You get more bang for your buck with this car. You get the style of the SUV and gas mileage and price of a minivan. I have averaged 26 MPG and have had it as high as 30 MPG. We are not a petite family so we needed something with lots of hip and leg room. We found it with the Journey. We do need to take it it for the stereo to be reprogrammed because the volume randomly turns up really loud when you turn on the car. We opted for the third row for when we need it and it has turn to work out well a couple of times. The interior light colors are pretty cool too. We love our new Journey!

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 5.0
  • Interior 5.0
  • Performance 5.0
  • Value 5.0
  • Exterior 5.0
  • Reliability 5.0
  • Purchased a Used car
  • Does recommend this car
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fantastic car great ride good mpg

we just bought last week we traded or 2011 soul (which we liked)which with our driving avg 24 mpg. we left to go to vermont car had 100 mi on it going thru the mountains driving 60 -65 we avg 25.5 mpg which is very good i think seats are amazingly comfortable very quiet comfotable ride touch screen seperate climate control is great we now have 1000 mi on it still ave 25.5 mpg highly recomend i love this car

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 5.0
  • Interior 5.0
  • Performance 4.0
  • Value 4.0
  • Exterior 4.0
  • Reliability 4.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Used for Commuting
  • Does recommend this car
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Better than listed gas mileage.

I could not believe it, but, when we took this car on a trip to Florida, 1353 miles, less than two weeks after we bought it we got over 28 mpg with it. The performance was what was expected, No I didn't pass a Challenger, but when I needed the boost it was there. If you drive the way I do, you'll get the gas mileage. If you are up and down in speed you won't no matter what car you drive. This car so far is what they said it would be and I am very happy with it.

Rating breakdown (out of 5):
  • Comfort 5.0
  • Interior 5.0
  • Performance 5.0
  • Value 5.0
  • Exterior 5.0
  • Reliability 5.0
  • Purchased a New car
  • Does recommend this car
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