GTP Cool Wall: 2005-2010 Chrysler 300

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2005-2010 Chrysler 300

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Has an ugly look and is often driven by wannabe "gangstas". Uncool by the smallest margin over Seriously Uncool.
 
Not going to vote because... no, but I'm gonna leave a few things be known.

I have a cousin who has a base 300 and a grandma who has a 300 Touring. I've driven the base 300 more than enough and it's... rubbish, honestly. The steering is generic feeling and has almost no feedback at all. I can let go of the steering wheel in a light bend and it'll stay there provided it hasn't hit a bump. Driving position isn't all that great either. The 2.7 V6 is a lazy little engine as well and it unfortunately was hooked up to a 4 speed automatic, which I'm sort of iffy about and was really irked by it since it was a 2006-2008, but it was a base 300. The comfort wasn't all too great either, driving or riding as a passenger. I also remembered smelling a ghastly burning smell when he put his foot down on the interstate trying to get up from 80 MPH to 95 MPH. It also doesn't help that he's one of those that put a Bentley grille on his 300... a base one and he actually thinks it looks like a Bentley. Please.
At least he isn't a drug dealer though. Has a respectable job and hasn't put obnoxious wheels on it like other typical 300 owners.

My grandma has a 300 Touring with 250K+ miles on it, believe it or not and it hasn't given her any issues (Except for a stuck seatbelt). It's less rubbish than the base 300, but it isn't the car for me though.
So the meh and uncool votings are justified, at least from my experience. It's just some decent looking car.
 
It has a Mercedes chassis? We need facts like that in the OP, I should have voted cool!

I always thought the odd styling made it seem like one of the retro-styled cars from the 2000's (Thunderbird, PT Cruiser, Mustang, etc.), but there really isn't anything that Chrysler built in the past that it looks like. It's just a weird looking, but attractive car. Much like the Crossfire, in my opinion.
 
The V8 cars were actually fast. The SRT8 is impressively fast for how heavy the car is, and yet amazingly boring even with your foot hard down. They're also not built with a lot of care and are plagued by problems that should have been recalled due to safety but flew under the radar so any used car is probably a danger on the road. So seriously uncool it should literally be illegal.
 
So, borrowed Mercedes chassis aside (and you can find many people who will state, on good authority, that it was more of one than the other or almost none of the latter... or something), this was a gaudy, poorly-built, rough-riding rental tuxedo of a car, meant to compete with tailored German suits.

Sub-zero.

Okay, really, there's always got to be one hipster in the audience... :lol:

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Driving one is like wearing a Zoot Suit to a board meeting of Armani-wearing executives. You know you've spent less. They know you've spent less. You don't care.

And because they're such horrible cars, you can pick up a secondhand one with a Hemi for a song nowadays. :D
 
I like it.

But I do agree with some people. I ain't voting SU but Uncool.

EDIT: Wait, did niky seriously go with S-Z? He sure want to bring attention don't he? :p
 
Seriously uncool. A cheap pastiche of a Bentley, especially so when adorned with the fake Bentley grille and badges. Based on an old Mercedes, I would much rather take that instead of this.
 
I know some people associate cool cars with celebrity counterparts. Not something that I consider too much when deciding on the coolness of a car, but for those who do, this lady drives a 300C:

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Anyhoo, I think this is one of my automotive guilty pleasures. However, I often feel so disgusted with myself for liking it that I decide to hate it again. Then I change my mind and the cycle continues.

It's looks far better than the 2nd gen, which to me is a generic knock-off of this one, but it's still uncool, bordering on seriously so.
 
Always liked the look of these, and I don't even mind that they're not particularly well built or don't handle that well. Would I own one? Perhaps, if I'd exhausted the UK's supply of Lexus LS400s or Jaguar XJs first and I wanted something wafty and comfortable.

But cool? Nope. Far too many around here owned by wannabe-Bentley owners who've changed the egg-crate grille for a wire mesh one and stuck flying-B badges on the nose. Cars dressed up to be something they aren't: Uncool. Dodges a "seriously" because it's one of the more distinctive sedans on the road.
 
Funny how stereotypes work in different regions. In it's 'homeland' it seems to be seen as a wannabe drug dealer/pimp mobile. Over here it's more likely to be owned by a pub landlord or someone who owns a tile-store who can't quite afford a Range Rover Sport. Uncool.
 
As a general car (which this is quoted as?) I don't think there's anything particular cool about it, the newer generation looks better imo.

The SRT8 is vaguely better, but still isn't that cool, to me, so overall 'uncool'.
 
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Funny how stereotypes work in different regions. In it's 'homeland' it seems to be seen as a wannabe drug dealer/pimp mobile. Over here it's more likely to be owned by a pub landlord or someone who owns a tile-store who can't quite afford a Range Rover Sport. Uncool.
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I always kind of associate it with people who think they could be in a British version of the Sopranos.

I'm going to go with 'Uncool' because of the disturbingly large number of these I've seen with Bentley badges. And because they make good limos for hen parties...
 
Uncool. Most likely bought by low ranking mob bosses who couldn't quite afford to give their cronies a Merc, Cayenne or what have you and this was the most sedate offering. Failing that, (as others have mentioned) also the car of choice of sleazeballs who can get you free satellite TV and think this thing oozes class with its fake chrome grill. Chintzy in the worst possible way, plastic-fantastic interior, all shoved on an outdated chassis.

Solid uncool; not seriously so though, since I have the admit the Touring appeals to me for whatever reason, and I have to give Chrylser's European division credit for having the gonads to actually sell the SRT8 over here when its completely out of its depth.
 
I was looking at getting one of these a few years back, even went to the effort of test driving one. They're badly made and terrible to drive, but I still think they're cool in stock form. Stick a Bentley grille on it though, and it becomes much much worse. They're fun on British high streets, it feels like you're going to hit everyone in the vicinity due to the sheer size of the thing. I'd still have a Hemi but only if I couldn't find a good LS400/430.
 
The 300 didn't use a borrowed Mercedes chassis.

It was a Chrysler LX chassis with some E Class rear suspension bits, and S Class front suspension bits.

Anyhoo, it gets a cool from me.
 
Man this thing is getting walloped. A shame, I've always liked these and always saw them as cool, being the return of the big american rwd V8 sedan and such, Mercedes chassis and all. The Mopar fanboy in me is also talking, altough I absolutely see where everyone is coming from.

I'd daily one tomorrow. Cool.
 
It was cheapest new V8 car you could buy here. That means it's driven by people who wanted a cheap V8 car and people who want to look like they drive V8 car. You can also see surprisingly many estate versions of it
around here.

Uncool.
 
When it came out it wasn't bad, almost cool really considering the SRT8 version. However, with all the donks and bentley "conversions" this is a definitive uncool.
 
My grandparents have a 300C Hemi. Comfy to daily drive, just enough power, and surprisingly little issue with it. I like the styling and the fact that it brought an affordable semi luxury RWD American car to the market.

Still doesn't make it cool, but I don't find it uncool either unless ts been modified. Meh.
 
I like it, but there's no way I can't call it uncool. I mean, no matter how you look at it, it's still a luxury executive saloon driven almost exclusively by stock brokers.
 
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Have you driven both of them?
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Uncool. There's a few utterly awful two-tone ones in the area, but like @Zenith said, the car was adventurous in a beige-heavy market segment, so that just bumps it out of SU territory.
 
I like this car and the "gangster look" but I don't see how that makes it a cool car, uncool.
 

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