Dodge has announced that the 2011 Dodge Caliber will be the last year of the wagon-only small car. The Dodge Caliber, which replaced the Neon as Dodge’s entry level small car for the 2006 model year, had the unfortunate luck to launch just as rising gas prices began to turn public favor away from SUVs, which the Caliber was built to emulate, and back to small cars.

The last of the 2011 Dodge Caliber models will be manufactured on November 23, 2011, according to Allpar. The Dodge Caliber has a few cool features that should have made it popular with small car buyers, including a dashboard mounted refrigerator that holds four 20 oz bottles and liftgate-mounted speakers that hang down for tailgating. Much of the Caliber’s criticism was of its mechanical performance, ironic because it was the first vehicle to use Chrysler’s world engines, which were supposed to herald a new era of highly refined engines shared across Hyundai, Mitsubishi and Chrysler vehicles.

The Dodge Caliber will be replaced by a completely different small car, probably based on a Fiat, within the 2012 calendar year. Dodge has not announced the name or any other details about the new car, but Allpar claims that the engine choices will be a turbocharged 1.4-liter Fiat engine or the existing 2.0-liter and 2.4-liter four-cylinder engines.