Is it just me or the Chrysler 300

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, fear wrote:

> it also comes in AWD which is a must in the northeast.

It is? Gracious goodness me. How on earth did all those Northeasterners
get by before AWD? I guess they simply didn't drive between October and
April.

Moron.

> It is? Gracious goodness me. How on earth did all those Northeasterners
> get by before AWD? I guess they simply didn't drive between October and
> April.
>
> Moron.

well aren't you a snoody little prick.

when you live on top of a mountain and the snow plows don't get to your
streets.. it is pretty hard to make it up hills in anything but an all
wheel drive.

specially when you get 20 inches of snow in a span of 2 days.



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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, fear wrote:

> > > AWD is a must in the Northeast!

> > It is? Gracious goodness me. How on earth did all those
> > Northeasterners get by before AWD? I guess they simply didn't drive
> > between October and April. Moron.

> when you live on top of a mountain and the snow plows don't get to your
> streets.. it is pretty hard to make it up hills in anything but an all
> wheel drive.

Only if you don't know how to select tires and/or how to drive.

"Sam O'Nella" > wrote in message
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> > I'm indifferent on the styling, but the inexcusable bit IMHO is that
> > Chrysler came up with such a mechanically nice car and didn't see fit
> > to offer a manual transmission. That pretty much rules it out for me.
> > nate
>
> Old men (the primary target market of that abomination) don't care to
shift.
have not seen old men in this car.......NYC
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:49:56 -0800, Scott en Aztlán
> wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:43:27 -0500, "James C. Reeves"
> wrote:
>
>>>> .. is the chrysler 300 a beautiful automobile or what?
>>>
>>> What.
>>>
>>> Looks like a smashed version of one of their typical ugly obnoxious
>>> trucks.
>>
>>I agree. And I'm a Chrysler fan. But they're selling like hotcakes though!
>
>That's because they have a powerful HEMI under the hood.

Only if you pay for one.

> That's because they have a powerful HEMI under the hood.

HEMI: Marketing term for "engine".

John Harlow wrote:

>>That's because they have a powerful HEMI under the hood.
>
>
> HEMI: Marketing term for "engine".
>

Well, granted they are trying to cash in on the cachet of the original
two series of Hemi engines that developed quite a performance
reputation, but the truth is that there are some performance advantages
(at the cost of a more complicated head design) to a hemi-head engine.
Certainly this time around it isn't as revolutionary as the original,
both Chrysler and others have used hemi heads on lots of engines since
the 426, just without the hype. Actually, pretty much any modern engine
uses either a wedge or hemispherical combustion chamber. I'm not sure
if the wedge is still the most common, but it used to be since it's
simpler to arrange the valvetrain (hence the cachet of the original Hemi.)

I guess only time will tell if the new Hemi lives up to the reputation
of its predecessors.

nate

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> Well, granted they are trying to cash in on the cachet of the original
> two series of Hemi engines that developed quite a performance
> reputation


It has nothing to do with engine design; it's just Chrysler's marketing
department's way of doing what they can to cash in on whatever mantra a
redneck and his 3 year old kid can regurgitate on TV.

It's like Bush repeatedly saying "The American People are Safer" - sheep
will eventually learn to bleat it.