Up Shift - Four Seasons Wrap-up - Chrysler 300C: A real (near) American hero, according to Rusty Blackwell

摘要

The Chrysler 300C is probably the best American sedan ever built. Of course, it's not actually a true-blue American: its underpinnings come straight from Germany and the last-generation Mercedes-Benz E-class, its starred-and-striped Hemi engine is manufactured in Mexico, and the car' itself is assembled in Canada. Nonetheless, as editor-in-chief Jean Jennings wrote when we selected the car as our 2005 Automobile of the Year, the 300C is "a traditional American car done just right." As such, it offers big horsepower, bold design, lots of space, and the ability to gobble freeways. It also excels on twisty back roads, a factor that clinched AOY honors and a spot in our Four Seasons fleet for the Chrysler.