test drove some new cars today

My daughter gaduated college last may and landed a good job, a management position at her company. She now needs a new car as the new job will require traveling about an hour each way to work. We went car shopping today and stopped at the subarru dealer and drove a new impezza.....very nice car. next we drove a Hyndai elantra at that dealer, also a nice driving car. so then we went to the dodge dealer and found there offerings in this catagory to be very slim......the only thing that seemed might fit the bill was a dodge avenger, so they let us test drive a new avenger....somewhat dissapointing! This car was brand new off the lot and we left the dealer and this thing shimmed the steering wheel and shook like a 30 year old car. It had the worst rear vision of the 3 cars we drove and the poorist fuel miliage too. It was also higher priced than the other two. I see why the japaneese cars out sell american cars. Being a life long mopar guy, (actually for generations in our family), I was dissapointed in chryslers offerings. Chrysler needs to get their head out of there ***, and start building better quality, smaller sized affordable cars! Every chrysler dealer we looked at online in our area, had loads of thoses ugly jeep compasses, and wranglers, pickups, minivans, chrysler sebrings, but nothing in the smaller size catagory. What kinds of new cars have you guys tested lately and what did you think of it? Were still shopping.