Dude, if
those are the things you "hate" about your Dart... first-world problems. I'm with
@Exitus04 here, simply being an affordable compact car does not automatically guarantee a solid offering of aftermarket parts. There needs to be a fairly substantial customer base out there to support the vendors of such parts, especially quality performance parts (which are never cheap). The only reason the Dart has
any aftermarket performance support is because its 1.4T engine is shared with other performance-oriented vehicles like the 500 Abarth. The 2.0L engine is basically an orphan that was only ever used in the Dart, and only in small numbers after 2013, when it became the SE-only engine. The 2.4L engine is used in other vehicles, but Jeep owners don't generally look for the same kinds of mods as your average Dart owner would, and the 200 is a mid-sized sedan, not exactly a market segment where mods are a thing. In any case, it's a modern normally aspirated 4-cylinder engine, and automakers don't leave a lot of horsepower on the table. You can get
somewhat better performance out of the engine, but let's be realistic, the Mopar 210hp tune (that they never released) is probably the upper limit of what it can achieve without spending a small fortune on a turbo bit. How hard is it to understand that without forced induction, there is a hard absolute limit to how much air an engine can ingest? The reason that so much more can be achieved with turbocharged engines is that there is no such absolute limit. It is always possible to achieve more power if you are willing to invest in doing so. Of course, by the time you built a 300hp Dart, you'd have spent more than it would have likely cost to buy a similar-sized car with a 300hp engine.
As for floating island bezel surround, I have a 2013 and the level of illumination is pretty even all the way around. It's certainly not a lot dimmer at its furthest from the light source.
