Could be, could be.
The word that I heard 6 months
ago from a source inside that I trust was that the Imperial would likely be
an SUV. There has been noise about this for some time prior to
the latest that you see below.
I would bet on maybe something as a
"lineup" to go against Cadillac, which has both cars and "trucks", so could
be both a stretch 300 and maybe something else on a hemi truck
chassis? Perhaps Mercedes has figured out that there is a direction to
take in the marketplace that will not negatively affect its other "luxury"
brands? Big RWD 'mericun' cars might be a different niche from
their high-end german lines? How long since DC bought Chrysler?
How long since the 300C went sales crazy? How long is a design
cycle? Seems like just enough time has passed since someone may have
woken up and smelled the coffee and changed Titanic's design direction to
favor the old ways of having a top-to-bottom segmented
lineup.
---
Oh, and Neal - when you speculate
that there may be a new Riviera and conclude that it will be a 2D as they
have always been, keep in mind that the 2D 300 tradition ceased with the
re-intro of the 300 line lately, although fewer remembered 300's so I guess
that they had greater leeway on that than they might with a better known
item like the more recently produced
Riviera.
-Kenyon
Chris Hawkins
<imperial1966@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here
is the text from the latest Car
Connection.Com
website.
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Imperial
Concept from Chrysler?
While Chrysler has already confirmed that
it will have
a Dodge Challenger concept for Detroit, the
company's
been considerably more tight-lipped about another
concept
that could be on display at Cobo Hall. An
anonymous tip to TCC says a
Chrysler Imperial concept
will be shown off in Detroit, reviving the
nameplate
for the most luxurious Chrysler vehicles that died
away in
the 1990s. Drawn off the 300C body, the
stretched-wheelbase Imperial
concept is said to evolve
the 300C in a Rolls Phantom direction-much as
the
current 300C has been dubbed the "baby Bentley."
______________________________________________________________
It's
about time they went in this direction! I will
be eagerly awaiting the
unveiling of this one!
Chris Hawkins
66
LeBaron
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