A design that predates Chrysler’s oversight by Fiat, the five-door Caliber is a daring departure that’s failed to acquire broad acceptance in the U.S. market. The boxy hatchback design offers respectable space for passengers and/or cargo, and interior upgrades have made the Caliber more livable.
2011 Dodge Caliber
The Chrysler Group announced a marketing plan for the first year of the car's production. The plan included 20% of the budget going towards online marketing, a blitz of print ads and a number of television ads.
Dodge is marketing Caliber in a way that contrasts the Neon's introduction to the buying public. With Neon, the advertising campaign was based around its personable, appealing, "cuddly" looks. Examples of ads typically constituted a shot of the car front-on with a simple "Hi" hovering above it. In contrast, Caliber has been labeled as "Anything but cute" in its advertising campaign, with taglines or statements of "It's [the car] neither cuddly nor wuddly" or more bluntly "it scares the S*** out of me", stated by a fictional "cute" monkey named Binky.