Also saw a new Chrysler 300 yesterday.
05-28-2004, 09:31 AM
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Also saw a new Chrysler 300 yesterday.
Was a couple of lanes over from me on the Bay Bridge.
Ooof, that's not pretty. It's a big car, with some sharp creases a bit like the CTS. But unlike the CTS, it looks incomplete -- maybe because of the size. There are wide expanses of metal with nothing to break things up. No trim, maybe not enough creases, I don't know. The taillight panel is very plain.
The big grille is an eye catcher, though. Looks pretty mean.
Ooof, that's not pretty. It's a big car, with some sharp creases a bit like the CTS. But unlike the CTS, it looks incomplete -- maybe because of the size. There are wide expanses of metal with nothing to break things up. No trim, maybe not enough creases, I don't know. The taillight panel is very plain.
The big grille is an eye catcher, though. Looks pretty mean.
05-28-2004, 09:36 AM
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I saw the 300M at a stoplight while crossing the street...
the other day on my lunch break. It was that green metallic color and it looks fugly! It reminds me of those old school mobster cars. The older 300M body style looked much better.
05-28-2004, 09:49 AM
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Buddy of mine and I stopped at a Chrysler, oops, DaimlerChrysler dealership last week on our way back from playing golf. Parked my clean A6 right next to one of those things. We get out and start circling it, opening the doors.
My buddy wanted to look at a Crossfire for his wife. The sales guy (typical, cheap hustler sleazeball type) looks at me, looks at my Audi golf hat (yeah, schmuck those four rings mean something), and says, you want to trade up? I said, "up, I think I would be stepping down into a car like that." Opening the door to a car with 260 miles on it, and pointing to the wrinkled leather seats, the cheap switchgear, I said, "you better try harder if you are going to sell to Audi customers." The car smelled so bad--a combination of plastics and adhesives--you would have a headache for hours. I ended the conversation by telling him to talk to my buddy who was interested in the equally fugly Crossfire.
My buddy wanted to look at a Crossfire for his wife. The sales guy (typical, cheap hustler sleazeball type) looks at me, looks at my Audi golf hat (yeah, schmuck those four rings mean something), and says, you want to trade up? I said, "up, I think I would be stepping down into a car like that." Opening the door to a car with 260 miles on it, and pointing to the wrinkled leather seats, the cheap switchgear, I said, "you better try harder if you are going to sell to Audi customers." The car smelled so bad--a combination of plastics and adhesives--you would have a headache for hours. I ended the conversation by telling him to talk to my buddy who was interested in the equally fugly Crossfire.
05-28-2004, 10:07 AM
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One drove up behind me - *very* cool looking.
But when it passed me, so did my interest in it...fugly rear - I agree with your assessment:
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05-28-2004, 11:03 AM
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Oh, and orders from whom? The rental companies?
Cars with four doors and no four-wheel drive make a comeback
By Keith Naughton
Newsweek
May 31 issue - Once Howard Sucher saw the audacious Chrysler 300 on the Internet, he had to have it. But the Chrysler dealer near his home in Boca Raton, Fla., told him he'd have to wait five months. So Sucher and his wife traveled 180 miles to get a $38,000 satin-jade 300C, the model with a steroidal 340-horsepower Hemi engine. Sherrie Sucher is giddy about a car that "looks like a Bentley" and gives her a break from the hulking family SUV. "I'm tired of driving around with all the drink boxes and diapers," she says. "I'll feel renewed in this car."
Detroit has come out with plenty of hot SUVs and pickups in the past few years. But Chrysler is doing something Detroit hasn't managed in decades: generating buzz for a traditional car. You remember those things--they have four doors but no four-wheel drive. GM is also rediscovering cars, with models like the tasteful Pontiac G6. But in a culture that's big on the brash statement, car buyers like Chrysler's wild ride. After only a month on the market, the old-school Chrysler 300 has generated more than 60,000 orders--twice what the PT Cruiser did in its first month. Also burning rubber is the 300's swaggering sibling, the low-rider Dodge Magnum wagon. Some dealers are charging $10,000 above sticker for "inferno red" Magnums. "Mercedes owners are breaking their necks to see what I'm driving," says auto consultant Wes Brown, who has driven both cars in L.A. lately. "These could be the new Escalade."
The 300C is already jumping from the street to the screen. One with 22-inch rims rolls up big in 50 Cent's latest video, "Poppin' Them Thangs." A 300C also starred in "ER's" season finale.
When Chrysler unveiled its radical rides at car shows last year, auto critics found their looks over the top, even vulgar. But Chrysler chief designer Trevor Creed knew he had a hit when his 14-year-old-son got in the Magnum and declared, "This car is the shizzle."
And now with record prices at the pump, Chrysler's cars are a smart alternative to SUVs. Even with the big Hemi V-8, the cars manage 24mpg on the highway, thanks to new technology that shuts off half the engine at cruising speeds. That's a lot better than the 11mpg you get in a Hummer H2. Howard Sucher isn't feeling any pain at the pump in his new 300C--only pride. "When I go to get gas," he says, "people just stare." When's the last time you heard that about a car from Motown?
By Keith Naughton
Newsweek
May 31 issue - Once Howard Sucher saw the audacious Chrysler 300 on the Internet, he had to have it. But the Chrysler dealer near his home in Boca Raton, Fla., told him he'd have to wait five months. So Sucher and his wife traveled 180 miles to get a $38,000 satin-jade 300C, the model with a steroidal 340-horsepower Hemi engine. Sherrie Sucher is giddy about a car that "looks like a Bentley" and gives her a break from the hulking family SUV. "I'm tired of driving around with all the drink boxes and diapers," she says. "I'll feel renewed in this car."
Detroit has come out with plenty of hot SUVs and pickups in the past few years. But Chrysler is doing something Detroit hasn't managed in decades: generating buzz for a traditional car. You remember those things--they have four doors but no four-wheel drive. GM is also rediscovering cars, with models like the tasteful Pontiac G6. But in a culture that's big on the brash statement, car buyers like Chrysler's wild ride. After only a month on the market, the old-school Chrysler 300 has generated more than 60,000 orders--twice what the PT Cruiser did in its first month. Also burning rubber is the 300's swaggering sibling, the low-rider Dodge Magnum wagon. Some dealers are charging $10,000 above sticker for "inferno red" Magnums. "Mercedes owners are breaking their necks to see what I'm driving," says auto consultant Wes Brown, who has driven both cars in L.A. lately. "These could be the new Escalade."
The 300C is already jumping from the street to the screen. One with 22-inch rims rolls up big in 50 Cent's latest video, "Poppin' Them Thangs." A 300C also starred in "ER's" season finale.
When Chrysler unveiled its radical rides at car shows last year, auto critics found their looks over the top, even vulgar. But Chrysler chief designer Trevor Creed knew he had a hit when his 14-year-old-son got in the Magnum and declared, "This car is the shizzle."
And now with record prices at the pump, Chrysler's cars are a smart alternative to SUVs. Even with the big Hemi V-8, the cars manage 24mpg on the highway, thanks to new technology that shuts off half the engine at cruising speeds. That's a lot better than the 11mpg you get in a Hummer H2. Howard Sucher isn't feeling any pain at the pump in his new 300C--only pride. "When I go to get gas," he says, "people just stare." When's the last time you heard that about a car from Motown?