Re: Re: IML: Imperial Concept

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I've watched Chrysler make great strides in recapturing the market in recent years with the PT Cruiser, the 300 and the Dodge Magnum.  I'm really hoping they repeat their performance and innovate a new Imperial to the top of the luxury car market.  I can't wait to see it, and will withold judgment having only seen a few grainy photographs.  And I think the suicide doors are Fab-U-Lous!

I'd buy one for the doors alone!  I can't even imagine how cool it would be if they come out with a convertible.

Patrick Moore
'58 Southampton
'69 Electra ragtop
Southeast Louisiana


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> From: randalpark@xxxxxxx
> Date: 2005/12/31 Sat PM 12:42:51 EST
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> I have come to believe that the general public wants cars that look like life size "Tonka Toys". This new Imperial seems to fit that description perfectly. Now if it just got 60+ miles per gallon and cost around $20,000.00 it would sell like hot cakes. Do I like? NO.
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> Paul W.
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> From: Greg and Russell <65luxuryliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> I looked at the photos of the 'Chrysler Imperial' (why do the designers feel it is so important to put the two words together?) last night and posted my comments about the car. Figured I'd sleep on it and maybe in the morning when I was fresh from a night's rest, I might see things a little differently. Unfortunately I still am unimpressed and almost repulsed by the photos I see in the article. The 'modern Chrysler designers' (lifted right out of the copy) have done their level best(?) to replicate a Rolls on a (stretched?) 300C platform! Where's the imagination and creativity? If Chrysler's modern designers can imagine, create and actually build a prototype that is as jaw-dropping as the Chronos, why are they stuck in first gear with this mundane, should I say it, cartoonish(those 22" wheels are ridiculous!) concept of an Imperial? 
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> To say I'm disappointed is a huge understatement! And as far as holding out much hope of it being changed prior to going into production, I've seen photos of the Magnum concept car and the production version (2005) is just about a dead ringer for it! There were a few small details that didn't make it to the '05 production version but for the most part, the R/T I have sitting in my garage and the concept vehicle could be twins (at least fraternal). My guess is those 'modern Chrysler designers' who hatched this egg of a vehicle have patted themselves on their backs and are mighty proud of their 'creation'. What a shame when there was so much they COULD have done to make it uniquely Imperial! 
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> Greg McDonnell  
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