@mkbruin:

old american rwd iron may have been nice back in the day, but nobody gives a rat's ass about what a taxi looks like. to cab users, it's an appliance, not a lifestyle statement.

naturally aspirated

if you want to do car comparisons, you'll see that the 535i (yes, a bloated gas guzzler) weighs about 3700 pounds and wins handling contests due to its superior balance and suspension design — and it will cost a lot more. that's not the competition i'm talking about. Look at what is selling now in the USA: Accord,…

if you want to do car comparisons, you'll see that the 535i (yes, a bloated gas guzzler) weighs about 3700 pounds and wins handling contests due to its superior balance and suspension design — and it will cost a lot more. that's not the competition i'm talking about. Look at what is selling now in the USA: Accord,…

perhaps you are misinterpreting some of what i'm trying to say. My assertion is that, while the 300M is a step up in quality for Chrysler's big sedan, it isn't the car that the market is demanding. It's chasing _in the direction of_, not directly at, German luxury cars. Am i mistaken, or do we agree that not many…

Following the lead of the crosstown rival, perhaps?

... where these polar bears found piles upon piles of edible food sitting in the garbage heaps. Upon helping themselves to the spoils of these human discards, the paranoid human population became upset — what if those big polar bears, in foraging for food, would suddenly develop a taste for beer, and then start…

Twitter is for twits. I had hoped that Jalopnik would remain on journalistic high ground, far above the mudpuddle levels of Twitterdom. I guess we were wrong.

Let's hear more about that Abarth...

Great, one more automotive gimmick that no one wants or needs. Detroit, get your priorities in order.

Well, it's about time an auto journalist called out Ford for their cheap plastics.

@OhNoEzanEscalade!!!11!: pauljones is entitled to his opinion, but none of the Chyrsler vehicles in the last decade have been superlative, except perhaps the Viper — and even that seems to have been overshadowed by brilliant ZR-1s and beautiful disasters like the Ford GT.

@pauljones:

@crd22: i specialize in randomness!

@pauljones: this is 2011. If chrysler was actually attempting to make a car that would tempt its remaining customers out of the vans and bloated utes it has sold for the last 25 years, then it would ditch the chrome and other ballast that pushes the weight of this monstrosity into limousine territory. As it is,…

@Ray Wert: That makes a total of two people who like this rehash of an antiquated theme.

Off-road performance enthusiasts have been longing for a sport utility vehicle that actually offers some "sport" to the game.

...way to oversimplify and obfuscate, jalopnik...