Chrysler 300C - Car and Driver (blog)
When a car makes the kind of splash that the Chrysler 300 did when it debuted in 2004, its maker gets backed into a corner. Granted, any car company hopes its products will find sales success, but following up an instant icon like the first-gen 300 makes an already tough task—simply designing a car in the first place—that much more of a challenge. Further complicating matters, Chrysler had to deal with that whole bankruptcy thing, and so the 2011 300 received more of a thorough face lift than the total overhaul for which it was due. They comprehensively overhauled the interior, tidied up the exterior (including slight visibility improvements), tweaked the suspension for a smoother ride, and added sound insulation for a more hushed cabin. The 300 might not be as “all-new” as we’d like—or as much as it would have been under different circumstances—but it is once again a compelling full-size luxury car. Refined, polished, and more sophisticated are descriptors that come to mind after studying the 2011 300’s new sheetmetal. The 300’s nose, cradling Chrysler’s new corporate grille and badge, was designed to appear smaller than before to make the new car look more streamlined. Source: www.caranddriver.com
