I sat in one a few hours ago while my truck was being serviced. I
couldn't stand one myself, my size 13.5 shoes made me very uncomfortable
in it. I had about 1" room between my left shoe and the brake pedal, and
my foot kept hitting the brake pedal when I was working the throttle. I
couldn't really move my feet around and after a few minutes, I was done.
I kind of liked it other than that. Seems like the footwell is very very
small. Try it out, it might not bother you, if you're on the smaller
side. I kind of liked it except for the footwell problem.

I was just looking while I waited on my truck being checked out, it's
sucking a qt of oil every 600 miles all of a sudden. Running fine, no
pings or check engine light, or blue smoke. They checked it over and
found no leaks, as expected, since the only thing that ever leaked out
of it was power steering fluid due to the hose getting cut somehow.
Looked like a rock hit it to me.

So now they are "monitoring" my oil consumption. I think it's going to
be a major deal, rings or something. I don't know where it's going, it's
got to be burning it somewhere, since the coolant is clear. The tailpipe
is clean, rubbing my fingers in it produces hardly anything at all. My
garage floor is totally dry.

I moved over to the Charger SRT-8, and that was more like it, but damn
it's so ugly, WTF was DC thinking when they designed it. They could have
hit a home run, if they made it look ok. I've heard the next Charger
will look a lot better, but I have to see it first. A Charger would be
more comfortable and somewhat more practical, but unless it's a killer,
I plan on getting a Challenger during the second or third year they make
them.

BDK

I think that the first year for this will be fine - the Caliber did
really well as a first year, I think integrating with the Jeep
platforms has helped with the quality on that front.

SCPO, what did you think of the footwells?