Re: IML: Imperial Concept

["Greg and Russell" <65luxuryliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The build quality of the concept (Chrysler) Imperial may be 110%.  That 
wasn't my point.  The proportions of the car are so, well for lack of a 
better word, WRONG.  It's height as compared to it's length is what bothers 
me, not to mention how boxy it is.  And as I said, the lack of anything 
uniquely Imperial (free standing headlights, gunsight taillights, split 
grille propeller-like rear bumper - there are so many cues they could have 
used) also bothers me A LOT!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose.  I just find the car butt 
ugly (the grille and wheels nauseate me) and wouldn't buy one if they were 
marked down $10K off sticker.  But that's just me.  I'm sure there will be 
someone who likes it.  I'm just very disappointed that it mimics the RR when 
it COULD have been a renaissance of the Imperial manqué.

Greg McDonnell
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Subject: Re: IML: Imperial Concept


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Greg and Russell" <65luxuryliner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 8:24 AM
> Subject: Re: IML: Imperial Concept
>
>
> > 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?
>
> I remember when the 67 Imperial came out. Many felt the last real 
> Imperials were gone.There were many negative comments of how the trunk lid 
> sounded when slammed shut as well as a lot of tacky interior trim, the car 
> looked too narrow etc.
>      Today, that generation seems to be among the most favored.
> John
>
>
>
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