RE: [Chrysler300] NEW 300C from Chrysler!

[doug_jones@xxxx]

Hi list,

My two cents is that, indeed, the design teams doing 2005 cars relate to letter cars (last one built 40 years prior) about the way Virgil Exner related to cars from 1915 (also 40 years prior to the C300). Which is to say, he did not, and they don't either. The confusion comes from the use of the name from a golden oldie and the 'pitch' involving the heritage of the Brutes. Personally, I have the ex-Jett 300M and find it to be an astonishingly good car with amazing room, handling, and comfort. But it has nothing in common with my '63 Pace Car, much less a letter car, except the name.

One must also consider that there is virually no market for a big 4 / 5 seat two door car. Chevy, with the Monte Carlo, is one of precious few building such a car today, and I don't get the idea that they are getting rich doing it.

But styles change, and the 4 seat coupe may make a comeback later on. I agree with the writer who was left cold by this new design and wanted the Hemi-C convertible. Ditto, brother!

Cheers,
Doug Jones
Boulder Creek, CA, a little too close to Jett Ranch when Lefty is selling stuff ...

-----Original Message-----
From: dan300f@xxxx [mailto:dan300f@xxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 10:15 AM
To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] NEW 300C from Chrysler!


Hi all:

Now ya'll don't expect the designers to come up with something resembling 
past 300 letter cars when they do not even know what they are.

A couple of years ago, I went to the Auto Show in Los Angeles. I wore a 
sweat shirt with the 300F emblem painted on the front. I went up to 
Chrysler's sales desk and the first thing some salesman asked me was, "Is 
that a Mercedes?" I chewed his posterior out for not knowing the history of 
his product. I went around to other sales persons and not one of them knew 
what an early 300 letter car was, even though there were hundreds of pictures 
of letter cars making up a collage to advertise the 300M.

I would suspect that none of the designers were even in diapers when the 
last letter car was produced. I see pictures all the time of design teams 
for the Japanese cars in newspapers and magazines and none of them appear to 
be out of their 20's or early 30's.

So, how would one expect the design of a modern letter car to be anything 
other than folowing the lines of the look-a-like cars on the road today. The 
ony car I see on the raod today that even gives a hint of yesterday is the 
Thunderbird. I can visualize the '55-'57 Birds in the new design.

So, get you ass in gear Daimler!!!! Give us an appropriate design.

Enough fer now!

Dan Reitz
Northridge, CA
300F


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