2011 Chrysler 300C

[chinamonty]

Did mrs maks father or uncle have a Rover 3.5 Coupe per chance?

[BigAls87Z28]

Please make it look like the 200C concept. That car was beautiful.

[Buick61]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

Please make it look like the 200C concept. That car was beautiful.

I think they're going to make the production 200C look like the concept 200C, so there's no need for the 300C too look like that.

[Stéphane Dumas]

Originally Posted by mikmak

Seriously though, as Buick61 said, it has saved Chrysler's bacon (to some extent). There is little in the way of competition, so keeping it fresh should be a no brainer, they just need to eek out some extra efficiency.

+1, with the upcoming V6 Pentastar, it'll help efficiency. Too bad then the diesel version wasn't offered in North America. I heard once some rumors then Fiat prepare a new diesel family, maybe a V6, for Alfa-Romeo, maybe it could be under the hood of the 300C as well?

[BigAls87Z28]

The new Chrysler DOHC V6's will start showing up soon I belive. Gone are the 4000 year old 2.7/3.5 lumps....
The 200C should be the 300. Make a 200C type version of the car. 200C type car will blow away a lot of people, design wise.

[GMfan1111]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

The new Chrysler DOHC V6's will start showing up soon I belive. Gone are the 4000 year old 2.7/3.5 lumps....
The 200C should be the 300. Make a 200C type version of the car. 200C type car will blow away a lot of people, design wise.

that's correct the new V6 will make it's production debut in the new GC then expect the "pentastar V6" to expand to other models in the next few years (the new Durango 300/charger etc)

[moon111]

Originally Posted by Buick61

You are thinking of this:

I photo-edited a picture of that concept car. Used a few styling cues from my first car, a `1977 New Yorker. (Actually the first car I bought was a Vega. But I try to block that from my memory.)

[ohmywrd8]

This looks so much better than the current one. This current one desperately needs a good refresh.

[AdmiralViscen]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

The new Chrysler DOHC V6's will start showing up soon I belive. Gone are the 4000 year old 2.7/3.5 lumps....
The 200C should be the 300. Make a 200C type version of the car. 200C type car will blow away a lot of people, design wise.

The 3.5 is far from a lump, and is barely 10 years old.

[BigAls87Z28]

The 3.5? Thing has been around since at least 99. It was the flagship engine of the LH cars!! The 2.7/3.5 are at least a decade old.

[jry]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

The 3.5? Thing has been around since at least 99. It was the flagship engine of the LH cars!! The 2.7/3.5 are at least a decade old.

My 1999 Intrepid had a 3.5.

[Danko]

I want tailfins!!!

[cdp326]

Originally Posted by AdmiralViscen

The 3.5 is far from a lump, and is barely 10 years old.

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

The 3.5? Thing has been around since at least 99. It was the flagship engine of the LH cars!! The 2.7/3.5 are at least a decade old.

Originally Posted by jry

My 1999 Intrepid had a 3.5.

As I understand it the 3.2L was the new uplevel engine in the Concorde/Intrepid with the 1998 redesign (2.7L base) with the 3.5 from the first-gen LH becoming a re-worked higher output version available beginning with the '99 300M/LHS. It wasn't available on the Intrepid until the 2000 R/T and the Concorde until the LHS became the Concorde Limited in 2002. So in the forms we have it in now it's about 10 years old though it dates to before then (kind of like Series I/II/III 3800s).

Write-up about it: http://www.allpar.com/mopar/33.html

[jry]

Originally Posted by cdp326

As I understand it the 3.2L was the new uplevel engine in the Concorde/Intrepid with the 1998 redesign (2.7L base) with the 3.5 from the first-gen LH becoming a re-worked higher output version available beginning with the '99 300M/LHS. It wasn't available on the Intrepid until the 2000 R/T and the Concorde until the LHS became the Concorde Limited in 2002. So in the forms we have it in now it's about 10 years old though it dates to before then (kind of like Series I/II/III 3800s).

Write-up about it: http://www.allpar.com/mopar/33.html

Well, then my 99 ES had the 3.2...... i'll have to see if the sticker is still in our car file. You are probably right. All i knew at the time was that the 2.7 stunk.

[alexcheetah79]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

The new Chrysler DOHC V6's will start showing up soon I belive. Gone are the 4000 year old 2.7/3.5 lumps....
The 200C should be the 300. Make a 200C type version of the car. 200C type car will blow away a lot of people, design wise.

You mean something along the lines of this: http://alexcheetah79.deviantart.com/...300c-129052585