[Chrysler300] Re: Breaking news...

["Michael Reed" <mrreed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a view on the new 300s from a different perspective. To 
explain "different perspective":
-- I've only owned one Chrysler product in my 51 years of driving -- 
my 300F
-- I've had a healthy respect for Chrysler products for most of 
those 51 years
-- Other than the "F" I've never owned an American auto other than 
GM products

The latter was greatly the result, I'm sure, of my intense 
involvement in stock-class drag racing beginning in '57. If you 
wanted to win in nearly any class you owned a Chevy or Pontiac. 
After the drag racing years were over, the GM "habit" stuck.

That said, my comments on the new 300:
-- I think it has a stunning appearance - hairy-looking - 
distinctive. 
-- The grill design is great, but is just a bit too big. It does 
seem somewhat out of proportion to the overall design -- (unlike the 
massive grills of the letter 300s).

There is an aura that has surrounded the word "Hemi" for some 40+ 
years, the very mention of which seems to quicken the pulse of 
Chrysler aficionados, raising their blood pressure, causing 
uncontrollable drooling, etc. And I don't blame Chrysler one bit for 
capitalizing on it. But? and said knowing my remark will be 
controversial? my opinion is that it is just that?. an aura. I've 
never found any evidence that hemispherical combustion chambers 
added more than a few horses to an engine -- less than 5%, probably 
much less. But the aura is there, and the word "Hemi" has sold a lot 
of cars for Chrysler, and now will continue to do so.

In the meantime, I dearly love my wedge-head (and am not at all 
saddened by its lack of a "Hemi"), and the car that encompasses it.






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