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accidents

Starbucks Coffee Shop Takes A Chrysler 300 Break

Patrons at a Bellingham, Washington Starbucks got quite the surprise yesterday when a 2008 Chrysler 300 driven by an elderly man crashed through the floor to ceiling window and across the shop. Five people were injured in the incident, though none seriously, and the driver is facing a charge of second degree negligent driving. Fortunately for us, a table was embedded in the grille and it makes it look like the 300 is sticking it's tongue out. We're assuming the injured will be suing for millions to cover the cost of spilled coffee. (Hat tip to R_Evolution)

[Source And More Photos: Bellingham Herald]

4:40 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
5,253 views, 55 comments

Latest by n/a: i like how he cleanly smashed into the center of the window. very prussian. more »

industry news

2011 Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger To Remain Rear-Wheel Drive, Get Makeover

It's no news that the 300's been a hit for Chrysler — and we here at the Jalop obviously are fans of the Dodge Charger SRT8, and the new Dodge Challenger's certainly got itself a purdy mouth. But there's potentially going to be some fuel economy issues inherent with a RWD, Hemi-powered platform given the current desire by Washington to focus toward beating up automakers and away from a more common-sensical Euro approach to increasing fuel economy. So what's the three-headed dog-owned car company going to do? According to the website for the lovers, the dreamers and me the answer is — not a whole lot. More »

8:30 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Ray Wert
4,072 views, 63 comments

Latest by abgwin: @landyacht: The Prowler was a unique platform. First, it was mostly aluminum and while it did use a corporate V6, the transaxle was out back. The front suspension was completely unique to Prowler. more »

jalopnik reviews

Chrysler MyGig Infotainment Center Review, Part 3


So you've seen the brief introduction to Chrysler's MyGig entertainment center and you've watched me get my hands dirty setting it all up, so what's the final verdict? Well, watch the talking head above and see. I am very happy to bear witness to Chrysler taking another step towards the future of car entertainment and infotainment centers—which amounts to simply slapping a complete PC into the dash. So which manufacturer wants to be the first to have a factory installed Windows- or OS X-powered machine that is completely open to customization? Any takers? I guess I'll just to do it myself.

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3:45 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Travis Hudson
1,228 views, 9 comments

Latest by Number_Six: @aaron x: @Charles_Barrett: Yup. more »

jalopnik reviews

Chrysler MyGig Infotainment Center Review, Part 2

Last week, I gave you a brief introduction to the Chrysler MyGig system in a 2008 300c Heritage Edition, and now I'm here to show how all of this hard drive mumbo-jumbo works. All in all, it's a really, really easy system to use. So easy I would be comfortable letting my grandmother attempt to save music to the hard drive. Stay tuned for part three when I give a final verdict, including putting on my favorite Negative Nancy hat.

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4:15 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Travis Hudson
1,445 views, 10 comments

Latest by Rabbi Dave: and don't forget you can't plug in an iPod or MP3 player via the USB. Just the analog aux jack. more »

jalopnik reviews

Chrysler MyGig Infotainment Center Review, Part 1

Now that we've finished putting the Microsoft Sync system through the grinder, it's time to take a look at the MyGig system featured in a variety of Chrysler vehicles. To simplify, MyGig is a pretty standard infotainment center, but with a "ruggedized" hard drive slapped behind it. Check out the video preview of the MyGig system above and stay tuned for Part 2, in which I slip on my Speedo and dive into the MyGig system like nobody's business.

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2:30 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Travis Hudson
2,425 views, 14 comments

Latest by DustyButt: @DodgeDriver: Yup! more »

deal of the week

2007 Chrysler 300 SRT-8

[UPDATE: Oh well — it's expired. D'oh. You can still get the '07 300C at a $3500 rebate and zero-rate up to 36 months.] Tired of the performance models always being excluded from automakers' incentive deals? Well, pop a No Doze and check out today's — hold please — Deal of the Week. It's the 2007 Chrysler 300 SRT-8, a car that combines last-gen Mercedes underpinnings with last-gen Chrysler design and factors in a ground-smooshing, 425-horsepower American V8. With cash back of $2000 or zero-rate financing up to 36 months, you'll need some capital to take advantage of the come-on, but at least you won't be upside-down when the sub-prime mortgage crisis starts pulling the securities markets into the fourth ring of hell. In other words, dump that mutual fund now while it's still worth something. Of course, if you live in NYC or a similar premium-insurance state, the five-year cost estimate adds 40 grand to the sticker. But c'mon, it could be way worse, especially for this much fun. And you can always get a used Prius after the next Great Depression. [Yahoo! Autos]

3:02 PM on Wed Oct 17 2007
By Mike Spinelli
1,559 views, 19 comments

Latest by megacab57: I own a 2005 300C. First year production run at that. I have had ZERO problems with this car. The fuel saving MDS Technology allows great fuel economy and serious performance when needed. more »

question of the day

Why Do People Pimp Their Rides?

Today's question hearkens back to Philosophy Week, but with a slight comedic twist. Seriously, yesterday's QOTD proved that we've all seen pimped rides (or at least what in the owner's mind qualified as "pimped") and with very few exceptions they're all pathetic. How many times have you seen a base model 300C with its anemic 2.7-liter V6 barely able to rotate the 22" dubs and sporting at least $5,000 worth of bling? Why not initially spend all that money on a HEMI? Or better yet, the SRT8 6.1-Liter HEMI? Who chooses looks over power? Obviously, these are the kind of thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools. But still, what possesses a person to do these terrible things?

11:30 AM on Thu Aug 30 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
3,325 views, 98 comments

Latest by dculberson: To me, pimping = appearance-only mods, which are wack. However, many of you seem to oppose any modifications. I've said before, and will say again: all manufacturers of all cars build to a compromise. If you desire higher performance more »

from austria, with love

Chrysler Moving Assembly Of Chrysler 300 From Austria To Ontario, Also It'll Get A Diesel Engine

The group soon-to-be-formerly the 'merican side of the German-American hybrid confirmed today they'll be moving production of the 300 series sedan from a Magna International owned plant in Graz, Austria to the Brampton, Ontario plant in 2010. The plan will push up the new generation of the model by one year so as to coincide with the production shift. Also, they'll be dropping $1.2 billion on vehicle development and retooling costs so the plant can build both left-hand and right-hand drive models — oh, and drop diesel CRD engines into them. Sounds like some torque-y fun if you ask us. [via thestar.com]

5:30 PM on Thu Jul 19 2007
By Ray Wert
642 views, 15 comments

Latest by n/a: @athodyd: That's why I said it. It's just the magnum with a better nose. Althought I think they're already built here an exported. more »

should be rolled into the river

The Chrysler 300EX

Oof. We find the front end treatment of the Rolls-Royce 100EX to be imposing, if more than a tad fussy and lacking in the pure class we expect from a Roller. But when a similar treatment is applied to the front end of a Chrysler LX car, the result is cheesier than an asiago-feta-swiss-jarlsberg-ricotta-pepper jack log topped with parmesan and romano. Somehow we think the guys yelling way too loud at the backyard party next door would be totally into it. We, on the other hand, are going to take a colonic now in an attempt to leach its toxins from our subconscious. – Davey G. Johnson More »

9:30 PM on Thu May 17 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
1,035 views, 19 comments

Latest by Turboner: @my favorite car is a motorcycle: Chrysler's most attractive cars were ugly. Ugly with a max wedge, I can deal with. This, well, this is just Pffffft. more »

spy photos

Spy Photos: Refreshed Chrysler 300C

Although Chrysler's 300C is heading into its third model year, the model's nowhere near ready for a radical reimagining. That's because Ralph Gillies' design still appears fresh, despite the virtual Napoleonic army of 300Cs on the road. But something's changing, judging by the cladding over this test car's rear-view. A subtle broadening of the taillight assembly, perhaps? A minor stylistic warping of the rear deck? We say bollocks. Bring back the fake spare-tire bulge. – Mike Spinelli More »

Spy Photos

7:18 AM on Thu Dec 28 2006
By Mike Spinelli
587 views, Comment

sema

SEMAture Ejaculation: Wert's Exclusive "Interview" With Chrysler Design Guru Ralph Gilles

While attempting to get my full fill of the Chrysler Group's SkunkWerks team SEMA 'splosion in Auburn Hills on Friday, I had the chance to sit down (and by sit down, I mean I stood behind a camera, question-filled notepad in hand) with none other than Chrysler Group design guru Ralph Gilles. Gilles is the artistic genius behind some of the automaker's most innovative and polarizing designs of the past few years. The gangster-land Chrysler 300, the mean-looking Dodge Charger and the power wagon for the soccer dad Dodge Magnum all are considered to be the children of his wonderfully wired-for-the-masses mind. I have to give Gilles a lot of credit for taking my interrogation in stride — I'm not known for asking the world's most likely, or even relevant, questions — and this case was no different. On top of letting us know he's a reader of Jalopnik, Chrysler's non-Stuttgartian bringer of SexyBack to... More »

3:20 PM on Mon Oct 30 2006
By Ray Wert
514 views, 8 comments

Latest by Ted Striker: For a second I thought that "you're black" was a question, not a lead-in. more »

news

Rumored! 2010 Iteration of Four-Door Chrysler 300 To Get Drop-Top Treatment?


Although specialty builder and supplier ASC Incorporated unveiled its Helios concept, a lattice-structured ragtop based on a 300C four-door sedan, at the Detroit show last year, word on the street is the German-American hybrid's rejected the ASC design due to cost considerations and feasability studies. Instead, Motor Trend is reporting the 'merican side of the cross-Atlantic merger of equals has contracted with another cross-Atlantic merger of equals, the Austrian/Canadian killer combo of Magna-Steyr to build a Karmann-style retractable folding steel roof for the next design iteration of the big gangsta sedan. Of course, they've been mulling over this idea forever — so who knows whether this is real or Memorex. More »

10:37 AM on Fri Sep 8 2006
By Ray Wert
1,853 views, 3 comments

Latest by Neil Block: monkeywrench: That's the point when you just go and buy a Rolls. more »

custom cars/hot rods: tuners

Big, Orange, Different: Chrysler 300C Parotech

Some rabid tuners from Lithuania's Parotech took a perfectly non-orange Chrysler 300C and turned it into an orange-et-orange street machine. A set of suicide doors, a suspension kit and 22" rims and other tweaks, and French-language narration complete the moving picture. We've got a sudden craving for a Sunkist. More »

8:31 AM on Mon Jun 26 2006
By Mike Spinelli
228 views, 2 comments

custom cars/hot rods: tuners

GeigerCars Messes With the Chrysler 300C SRT8


Those lovable scamps at Germany's GeigerCars have turned their horsepower-getting attention toward the Euro-spec Chrysler 300C SRT8. But before you get creeped out by that oddball wagon (pictured), remember that Europeans have been bestowed the 300C Touring, which is half a Dodge Magnum. Regardless, they've taken the SRT8's 6.1 liter HEMI V8 and added a supercharger, watercooled intercooler and high performance exhaust system, and rejiggered the engine computer to recognize all that new gear. The result is a boost in horsepower from 430 hp to 556 hp, and more torque than an Oktoberfest waitress (500 ft.-lbs). The result is a zero-to-62 mph (100 km/h) range of 4.7 seconds and an estimated max speed of 186 mph. Z-rated tires and 22" rims complete the makeover More »

5:03 PM on Thu Jun 8 2006
By Mike Spinelli
2,663 views, 8 comments

Latest by wannabewannabe: I didn't mean to imply I wanted Borranis on this car--yuck!--just that Borranis are damn sexy wheels independent of the car. Fundamentally, wheels must fit the car. This is why both donks and PT Cruisers with red 15' more »

novelties

Whip that Hoopty: Lime-Green Chrysler 300C Landau

This ultra-modded Chrysler 300C could have been the product of a Tonka—Fisher Price collaboration on a custom-job for a Chicago pimp circa 1978. Then again, it may just be the first of many oddball urban custom jobs to show up in a new feature Jalopnik calls Whip that Hoopty. Send 'em in to tips@jalopnik.com. More »

4:14 PM on Mon May 15 2006
By Mike Spinelli
4,168 views, 16 comments

news

Chrysler to Launch Heritage Edition 300C in Los Angeles

Chrysler is remembering its 1957 Chrysler 300C "Beautiful Brute" properly (or at least trying to help us forget how the last-gen front-drive 300 really wasn't much at all like the old 300C), with a special edition 300C it plans to debut at the Los Angeles Auto show next month. The 2006 Chrysler 300C "Heritage Edition" will get red-white-and-blue badging similar to the original, and it'll be the first Chrysler product to sport the SmartBeam headlamp technology found on several Jeep models, including the Commander. The Heritage 300C will be powered by Chrysler's 5.7-liter Hemi with Multiple Displacement System (MDS) and sport a package of options including 18-inch chrome wheels, performance suspension, five-speed AutoStick, SRT-inspired front seats, two-tone interior and 368-watt Boston Acoustic seven-speaker sound system with subwoofer. Three exterior colors will be offered, including Brilliant Black, Cool Vanilla and (at extra cost) the Inferno Red Crystal Pearl shown, which is exclusive to the model. All that stuff will set you back around $36,000. [Thanks to Zerin for the tip.] More »

1:18 PM on Wed Dec 21 2005
By Mike Spinelli
2,184 views, Comment

news

Chrysler to Offer 300C Limousine

Brace yourselves for a new slew of ba-linged Chrysler 300s — only these'll longer than the ones already stalking urban boulevards like escaped panthers nosing around for a discarded TV dinner. The newest prom-night vomit wagons, however, will be factory issue. DaimlerChrysler is reportedly in final talks with limosine outsourcer Accubilt (which also builds the stretch Cadillac DeVille/DTS) to build moderately-stretched 300 sedans. The new limos, which will be about six inches longer than 300 sedans, will place Chrysler in direct competition with Lincoln and Cadillac — the major players in the limousine and town-car market. More »

10:04 AM on Fri Dec 9 2005
By Mike Spinelli
3,057 views, 5 comments

Latest by Peeved Michelle: I have already seen several 300s in place of Towncars around LAX. more »

custom cars/hot rods: tuners

Startech to Bring Chrysler 300 CRD Tuner to Essen

If you've never seen the European Chrysler 300C Touring, you may be shocked to see the leonine nose cone of the 300C sedan attached to the business end of a Dodge Magnum. It's a distinctly European model, one we'll never see on these shores. Still, it's a Chrysler, meaning it's fair game for German tuning house, Startech, which specializes in mechanical tweaks for DaimlerChrysler products. This model, the Chrysler 300C 3.0 CRD StarTech — set to be unveiled at Germany's Essen motor show (that country's version of SEMA) — shows off what the company thinks about diesel-powered station wagons. A mild performance package boosts horsepower of the 3.0-liter V6 common-rail turbodiesel engine from the standard 218 to 262 and torque from 326 to 428 ft.-lbs. Despite its largesse, the finished product, made even more finished with body kit that improves its aerodynamic profile, can hit 144mph. (C'mon, it's still a diesel.) More »

3:01 PM on Tue Nov 8 2005
By Mike Spinelli
1,858 views, 4 comments

Latest by ravana: Startech makes Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep cars the way they should have come out the factory. Sadly they cost so much. I wants me a Startech-ified JGC. more »