1994 Dodge Spirit FFV Review - Runs On METHANOL From The Factory!

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[@JMJR07]

I appreciate that a car called “Spirit” can run on alcohol.

[@Oddballtech]

God loves us all so much that he gave his perfect son to die for our sins and raised him from the grave to defeat death. Through faith in JESUS we can be saved and reconciled to GOD. please repent🙏♥️

[@YouVidTuber]

​@@OddballtechYour reply has nothing to do with the video or even this comment

[@senseicorey9979]

I'm running on compressed natural gas myself . Especially after rib night.

[@artoodiitoo]

brap brap brap brap

[@milesdyson]

I get better mpg's after wing night myself, especially cuz pizza is on special that night too, I do half & half, water tho, no beer. That would destroy the "fuel lines."

[@MYVP.]

on today's episode of cars i didn't know existed

[@Mr-Neven]

Check out the Spirit R/T or Shadow VNT

[@RustyZipper]

When you show Menthol powered I assumed it was something like Newports 🚬 required when driving

[@81OldsmobileDelta88]

I really love this era of cars, anything between the 80s to the mid 2000’s makes me so happy! I wasn’t alive when these cars were being made, but I grew up with a lot of people who had them. So it always makes me happy when videos of these cars are posted on KZbin!

[@Tuxedorunner]

I’ve read by accident menthol 😂😂😂

[@fortheloveofnoise]

The Newport

[@feralkitty33]

Some say the Dodge Spirit runs cleaner on American Spirit, but it'll hurt the wallet.

[@Doctor_Robert]

WOW! Dude, you are killing it with these rare cars lately!! I had no idea Chrysler was experimenting with FFV!

[@JonTheDestroyer]

Web page from 1999 using comic sans. Sounds about right

[@IOLIVER88]

I love the Dodge spirits!!!

[@aca2983]

I love the "AA" body cars. Would love a 2.5 Spirit or Acclaim, but with the very poofy velour seats from the Lebaron sedan (which only came with the 3.0 mitsubishi V-6). Most of the FFV methanol versions of this went to municipal fleets. These are so comfortable, roomy, and easy to drive. Great visibility, feels somewhat like a big car, but easy to navigate and park.

[@aurorayoru5333]

I remember sitting in the back of my parents red Dodge Spirit with gold and silver wheels

[@gm12551]

My grandma had a 93 spirit which is one of the cars of my childhood. Never knew they had a FFV model unless I passed it up on Dezo’s garage brochures.

[@blautens]

Back in the day when my Caravan was being serviced they would give me these as a loaner. They were quite fine and pretty roomy inside. I think the 2.5 was fairly smooth.

[@TorCow1234]

I used to have a first generation Chevy Lumina that I drove until it was way past its prime. This meant that whenever I went to wrecking yards, I was always scouting for various parts and pieces for my car, or at least took notice of the 1990-94 Luminas that were in there. I once spotted a methanol flex fuel Lumina in a Phoenix wrecking yard... I knew that they existed, but this was the only one I'd ever seen in the flesh. The one thing that clued me in right away was the additional digital display on the dash that told you the methanol/gasoline percentage. As I understand, these were a "compliance car" produced for sale in California, and never sold in large numbers. I'd guess that fuel availability and price were something that played into their low acceptance- sort of like where hydrogen is at today.

[@misfire33]

Same dash binnacle as my 87 Daytona lol. I always liked the Spirits, they look so respectable and square and old-fashioned, but just a little smoothed out by that 90s facelift they got after their previous lives as Reliants and so on.

[@drewzero1]

I never cared much for Mopars but the Spirit always tickled my love for small boxy cars of the late 80s/early 90s. The FFV version is especially cool... In middle school as a science project I tried to make methanol from cow manure but all I got was stinky!

[@elasticmusic2084]

Most Mexico market 2.5s had this setup. Very rare in the United States and Canada market. Great video.

[@TheMailmanOfSteel]

The last gasp of the K-cars. Fun Fact: The FFV version of the 2.5L Engine was the ONLY MPI non-turbo version of the 2.2 or 2.5L ever produced. All other versions were turbocharged. The intake manifold itself was lifted from the 2.5L Turbo I engine.

[@bwofficial1776]

This car looks so early 90s. It's interesting to see these attempts at multi-fuel cars and I've never heard of methanol being used in road cars. Nice to see one still rolling around.

[@BS-br2yf]

These Dodge Spirits or Plymouth Acclaims are saled here in europe as Chrysler Saratogas

[@Whomever209]

So, like most Brazilian cars since the 2000's? Nice.

[@milesdyson]

Antique plates lol. I knew someone in high school who put a NOS kit on a '91 Plymouth Acclaim and blew the engine shortly after. Worth it just to tell the story.

[@blk77sunshn]

Dude great video ! You got an awesome channel, I love these old cars ! They bring back memories! I'm subscribed now most definitely! Thanks!

[@kkrezagang4606]

Definition of an affordable economy car before Hyundai and Kia took over the niche and Dodge got back to performance.

[@carlosmalave540]

Excited to watch a rare vehicle from Dodge. I never knew it existed. I wonder if there was a power output difference from E85 ?

[@karoltakisobie6638]

In 90s entire Europe and some other countries went crazy about NG/ LPG systems in cars and they worked and were cheap. Somehow US and Canada didn't follow that trend and methanol powered cars were one of the options tried.

[@bwofficial1776]

Europeans had to make natural gas work because their gas and diesel were so expensive. We didn't need to.

[@MalaiseEra]

Thank you for teaching me something today!

[@mopargm9329]

Awesome when I was 2 years old my father bought a brand new 92 Dodge Spirit R/T. Definitely badass for a turbo 4 cyl especially for the 90s. Stock it had 225 HP and 0-60 in a little over 5 secs. My father had his topped at 147 mph several times when I was a kid. Awesome times. Essentially it was kinda like a Hellcat of the 90s. This 94 you showed is really cool and I really hope it goes to someone that takes care of it and realizes how cool it is nowadays. Back in the day unless it was an R/T it was very common. The ES still looks nice though and a lot like an R/T with the cladding

[@James-mw6se]

Video was very cool look great car

[@artoodiitoo]

I´ve heard many things run on meth

[@sneakerfreak2002]

These run on alcohol just like their owners

[@cambo1200]

I saw a fair amount of these FFV’s back in the day, but didn’t know anyone that actually ran methanol.

[@willyhwang1059]

have not seen one in my neighborhood vancouver bc in years.

[@Dankcatvacs]

runs like new!

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

I do fancy getting a Spirit RT

[@dave11686]

Very cool

[@kylethestyle]

I don't think methanol is available at any fuel station anymore. I wonder what will happen if you fill it with E85? 🤔

[@garybrown4671]

That is what it is designed to run. They just didn't call it E85, yet.

[@colinschmitz8297]

I agree despite being a smaller car for its time, it is surprising large on the inside. I loved riding in my grandparents one vs. my father's larger exterior but smaller interior Oldsmobile Cutlass Ceria. I think the whole mistake choice to make cars like this, minivans, and normal trucks FFV was a big mistake. None of these vehicles required anything more than 87 octane. Whether methanol or ethanol, these were more racing fuels taking into The much higher octane level. If they wanted to offer flex fuel vehicles, they should have put it in models that needed premium fuel such as sports cars because either The choice of going with ethanol or methanol having a lower cost compared to premium fuel provides a better potential cost ratio than regular cars that only need 87 octane. The other advantage is many sports cars are the types that will be modified and the owners want to get as much octane as they possibly can. There's cases where people will use e85 and cars that weren't built for it for the octane. It's not recommended to do as it can damage the system since these vehicles are not flex fuel capable.

[@jwoody8815]

Im mainly a Ford man but those older 2.5 4s from Chryslers were good reliable engines. Id drive one of these older cars before I would these more modern POSes.

[@MrJayrock620]

I can only imagine Dodge paying someone to use a green sharpie on that gas gauge because it was cheaper than making a special cluster lol

[@dustinroberts795]

Huh... I misread as runs on menthol and accepted that 🤣

[@christopherjones9821]

I had a 1993 spirit it was ok for about 4years untill head gasket blew out

[@chaseman94]

To me the Dodge Spirit kind of looks a bit like a 3rd gen Pontiac Grand Am before it's mid cycle refresh for the 1989 model year.

[@bazilwreckerloughead]

(7:17) I wouldn't say I *hate* the sound of your voice, (6:50) now your *singing* voice though...

[@BoyPagcu]

Can you give me a link of this website at 1:59

[@RustyZipper]

The information is at the bottom of the screen

[@twatwa1405]

I know im not the only one who thought this car ran on menthols

[@danzeldiaz7447]

The Dodge caravans and other Dodge vans as well some other Dodge the dans like the charger and challenger as well as the Ford crown Victoria and Ford F series and E series or flexible fueled vehicles

[@kebabaluba]

Have E85 been available for that long in US? I thought it was something appereared like 20 years ago

[@jasonpeterson6163]

I want this car!

[@aenoymotors]

It's for sale!

[@iLife64]

Cash for clunkers took way too many cool cars 😢

[@cameronlovesevolve]

ash tray in the back god bless

[@kc0lif]

i used have a regular gas one.

[@GeeEm1313]

The Spirit was oddly my third favorite car when I was growing up. Mopar got these wrong when companies were switching to less boxy shapes for their cars. But I'd still take one of these over a Tempo or a Corsica.😊

[@johannesandersson3617]

Not alot of options it still got cruicecontrole

[@colinschmitz8297]

True but back then, if you even had cruise control on a strip down models, you were lucky.

[@Karmy.]

That grille looks so wrong on this car

[@chaseman94]

It make this look like a 3rd gen Pontiac Grand Am before the mid cycle refresh.

[@Karmy.]

@@chaseman94 all I think when I see it is 1st gen Durango

[@fortheloveofnoise]

​@@Karmy.Dodge Derprango

[@Low760]

Methonal or ethonal? Big difference

[@colinschmitz8297]

Methanol.

[@erich84502ify]

Plymouth Aclaim alert and Chrysler Lebarron

[@doug6191]

9:12 - That heckblende looks worse than the pre-refresh look. The earlier models were better-looking.

[@tjrodgers88]

First

[@Oddballtech]

God loves us all so much that he gave his perfect son to die for our sins and raised him from the grave to defeat death. Through faith in JESUS we can be saved and reconciled to GOD. please repent🙏♥️