Chrysler Reviews

A Lot Newer Than It Looks From The Outside

Treads Where No Pop-Up Has Tread Before

Sebring Successor Goes A Long Way to Address Old Ails

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When we first locked eyes on the 2008 Dodge Dakota at the 2007 Chicago Auto Show, we were breathless. The reason for our inability to process oxygen had everything to do with the ungainly sheet metal that covered the latest iteration of Dodge's midsize truck offering. The new Dakota is boxy with an awkward, Pug-like front end, and the interior is Dodge-tastic.

Jim Press's enthusiasm for his new job as Vice Chairman of the new Chrysler apparently got the better of him during one of his first commutes to Auburn Hills. As Press was trolling along with the flow of traffic on I-75, the velocity of his new Dodge Nitro caught the attention of the local constabulary. That flow, by the way, is generally either 80 mph or 10 mph depending on construction and accident conditions. Evidently, on the day in question, average velocity was closer to the upper boundary

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The Richard Petty Driving Experience is a touring road show that lets NASCAR fans get a bit of a feel for what it's like to drive on the Nextel Cup circuit, without the bumping and grinding. Participants at more than two dozen tracks a year have the option of either riding along with a professional driver or getting some instruction and hopping behind the wheel themselves. Chrysler has their own SRT Track Experience program that provides professional driving

You can think of it as 'Mission: Impossible 3', but you can leave the couch-jumping to the experts here. That's because the new Chrysler Sebring's task is merely to unseat some shoppers from the Honda Accord and the best-selling Toyota Camry and put their backsides in a Chrysler instead -- not to transcend all levels of self-intoxication.The Sebring is now in its second generation as a four-door a

To its credit, DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler Group has made a profitable practice of creating new vehicle niches, astutely going where the competition isn't. And where a new Chrysler, Dodge or Jeep vehicle's type isn't new, its size or architecture often is. Witness the venerable PT Cruiser, the Chrysler 300 bunker-look sedan, the Dodge Magnum gangster wagon, and the more recent Dodge Caliber and Jee