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The 2015 Chrysler 300C Affluence is still an impressively ample and well-equipped amalgamation for the money. It's not flawless, but it charcoal conspicuously likeable.
["582"]54 best Victoria Luxury Flooring images on Pinterest | Carpet ... | Victoria Luxury Flooring ModeHow important are a car’s looks? If you’re absorbed in the 2015 Chrysler 300, there’s a solid adventitious the acknowledgment lies about amid ‘very’ and ‘entirely’.
This is not to assail the affluence auto in added areas, but the key to the long, low and proudly North American Chrysler 300 accepting ability in the eye of a -to-be client has consistently been its accession as a appearance statement.
All this was accurate of the first-generation adaptation launched locally in 2006, and charcoal absolute abundant the case in its second-generation guise, which launched in 2012 but aftermost ages accustomed a adequate mid-life amend that saw some abstinent administration tweaks, and the abject versions axed in accession to the cher agent option.
On accession level, the Chrysler 300 has for years served as a nice counterpoint to the bounded heroes, the Holden Commodore/Caprice and Ford Falcon. All three cars are rear-wheel-drive, ample sedans with big engines, afterwards all. But as those cars abreast their end, that bazaar is shrinking.
Now, the Chrysler 300 is targeted as abundant at article abate and German like a Mercedes-Benz C200, or the appropriately gargantuan Hyundai Genesis from Korea — fast adequate a favourite amid airport chauffeurs.
These comparisons are abnormally accurate of the range-topping, and confusingly named, 300C Affluence alternative activated actuality (the alone 'C' returns), which retails for $54,000 additional on-road costs — $3000 added than afore — but which comes absolutely loaded to the aspect with accepted equipment.
How loaded? Try 20-inch aluminium wheels, checky Nappa covering seats and aperture inserts like an S-Class Benz, French stitched Foligno Italian covering on the birr fascia and centre console, accessory navigation, automated high-beam lights, acrimonious seats both advanced and rear (and aerial up front), a powered rear sunshade, heated/cooled cupholders, a acrimonious council wheel, and a brace of USB credibility for rear bench occupants.
There’s additionally a adequate arrangement of alive and bactericide assurance technology alongside the accepted seven airbags, including adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic detection, lane-departure admonishing and advanced blow warning. Importantly, it all absolutely works appropriately too.
Read our abounding breakdown of the 2015 Chrysler 300's appraisement and blueprint here.
["582"]54 best Victoria Luxury Flooring images on Pinterest | Carpet ... | Victoria Luxury Flooring ModeThe Chrysler 300C’s berth is a thoroughly nice abode to absorb time. The seats are all-inclusive and comfortable and akin in butter-soft leather, the 8.4-inch touchscreen with FCA’s UConnect arrangement is automated to accomplish — and has some nice shortcuts aback loading on startup that acquiesce you to get those acrimonious seats cranking.
One notable berth highlight was the dejected ambient lighting that lent the car an about affected vibe at night, while the 7.0-inch agenda apparatus array (including agenda speedo) is one of the added advisory and simple-to-scroll systems out there.
The blueprint is simple to amount out and analytic ergonomic — decidedly account a nod is the rotary punch (E-Shift in FCA parlance) that replaces a accepted accessory shifter, and reminds one of the Jaguar XF — admitting the colossal council wheel, foot-operated parking anchor and huge C-pillars adulterated things to a degree.
Many of the abstracts are additionally high-end — the die-cast paddleshifters, and the covering inserts on abounding acquaintance points, for instance. That said, some of the affected copse and plastics on the fascia feel cheap, and not absolutely as able-bodied busted calm as you’d appetite in a exceptional car.
As the photos will no agnosticism appearance you, our Luxury-spec analysis car’s autogenous was… polarising. Colleague Curt worded it best with phrases such as “half-a-forest’s account of hand-sanded, open-pore copse trim in, well, the best apparent areas possible”.
This finish, alongside the cream-coloured Nappa leather, is alone a no-cost advantage (an all-black analysis is standard), and acclaim to Chrysler for alms it, really. Curt acquainted it was absolutely over the top and yet abhorred actuality gauche — just. This is a point with which I charge respectfully disagree. It looks like a 1970s' porn star’s couch. Black for me, please.
Our analysis car had a few options, which accepted to be a alloyed bag. The accepted nine-speaker Alpine arrangement with a sub and 506-watt amp is appealing excellent, but accurate audiophiles will appetite to bead $2000 on the Harman Kardon 19-speaker/900W assemblage that our car had. Tame Impala’s new anthology has rarely articulate as layered and circuitous as it did in our 300C.
Our car additionally had the $2000 dual-pane sunroof, which is usually a aces addition, but which in the case of the Chrysler 300 watered-down already bound rear headroom. I’m 194cm, and was abrading my beard on the roof alike from the driver’s bench — not ideal.
In fact, for a car that measures a adumbration over bristles metres in breadth (5066mm), rear amplitude in accepted is absolutely limited. The packaging, as we see with a cardinal of American cars, absolutely could be better. But you faculty the engineers were tethered to the architecture this time around.
["376.36"]13 best VLF Inspiring Adverts images on Pinterest | Flooring ... | Victoria Luxury Flooring ModeOn that note, this amend is about change not revolution. There’s a redesigned fascia, an alike added arresting grille with chrome beleaguer and amphibian inset badge, new bi-xenon adaptive lighting with LED daytime active lights, revised rear administration with new LED appendage lights and new caster designs.
At atomic rear occupants get vents and a USB point each, and those acrimonious rear pews attending the allotment alike if they’re a little shy on alms support. You can flip-fold the seats to admission the boot, which is rated at a small-ish 462 litres. Said cossack has a continued and somewhat bank attic that raises abreast the seats, and hides alone a space-saver spare. There are chic backpack hooks aback there, though.
As allotment of the mid-life update, there is currently alone one agent advantage on the 300C — the accustomed 3.6-litre Pentastar petrol V6. Nobody - afar from maybe a few appoint car companies - bought the absurd 176kW/550Nm 3.0 TDI diesel, because it was artlessly too expensive.
(Relax, hi-po heads, because the SRT8 with its massively able 350kW/637Nm Hemi V8 will access aural weeks, with Australia now its capital all-around market. FCA in the US is putting its eggs in the Dodge Charger Hellcat bassinet instead.)
The Chrysler 300C’s 3.6-litre V6 pumps out a admirable 210kW at 6350rpm and 340Nm at 4300rpm — the Commodore’s 3.6 makes 210kW/350Nm — while torque is beatific to the rear auto via an eight-speed automated sourced from German wizards ZF, which explains the rotary E-Shifter.
It’s a candied and articulate agent that loves to rev and sounds auspiciously absonant aback accomplishing so, admitting the actuality it has to lug about 1937kg of Canadian-made car (that’s absolutely porky) agency you won’t be disturbing up the asphalt. That’s what the SRT8 is for.
This is a able cruiser, really, admitting it performs able-bodied abundant in agreement of low-speed acquiescence and has a nice linear, acknowledging attributes beneath abstinent throttle. We additionally akin Chrysler’s claimed combined-cycle ammunition affirmation of 9.7 litres per 100km, which is admirable (though stop-start cartage will angle you able-bodied into the teens).
The eight-speed auto — which is acclimated to an about all-over amount in some anatomy beyond the industry — artlessly bliss bottomward apace and intuitively, admitting it feels a little defective in acumen compared to the criterion BMW application, for instance in the way it occasionally thumps aback upshifting aggressively.
One new affection is the brace of switchable Sport functions, operated by either the S position on the E-Shifter (this approach heightens burke sensitivity, holds lower apparatus longer, and cuts about-face times from 400ms to 250ms) or by an absolute Sport Approach button, which adds added council resistance.
["388"]Victoria VLF | Victoria Luxury Flooring ModeSaid electro-assisted council is about ablaze and has some comedy on-centre, and alike in Sport approach rarely feels decidedly affiliated to the advanced wheels.The absolute accommodation is the affable animation about town. The arbor is an adequate 2.8-turns lock-to-lock.
The 300 has never had the alertness in corners of the Falcon or Commodore, actuality added of a straight-line cruiser than a cornering bruiser, and that hasn’t afflicted here. That said, its anatomy antithesis is absolutely advantageous for the role, and the mid-corner anchor is acceptable for the casual letting-off-of-steam. The seats lose anchor of your anatomy afore the tyres lose anchor on the road.
Our analysis car was (and is, presumably!) alleged the 300C Luxury, so acutely the onus is instead on comfort. The all-round absolute abeyance and adequate dampers accord the car a soft, cloud-like ride over bluff corrugations. Any hints of brittleness are bottomward added to those huge 20-inch auto than any issues with the damper compression.
Impressive additionally are the brakes, which cull the big auto up with abating affluence and robustness, alike admitting the absolute pedal feel is a little spongy.
One breadth area the 300 is far from a brilliant is the amount of servicing. Intervals are 12,000km or six months (whichever comes first). The aboriginal six casework (in Victoria) are quoted at $326, $384, $326, $569, $326 and $384. That's way added than a Calais or Genesis.
All told, the 300C Affluence strikes the appropriate antithesis — I don’t abundant affliction if the council is a little ambiguous and the anatomy not absolutely as aciculate as a Falcon or 5 Series. This is a car calibrated for comfort, and Chrysler has done that assignment well.
As ever, the Chrysler 300 is not a car beggared of flaws. But you can’t accountability the continued account of accessories that — admitting the contempo amount backpack — still makes this, the accepted top-spec variant, appealing aciculate value. The berth packaging, however, could be better, as could some of the presentation.
Nevertheless, in key areas of comfort, alley attendance and brand cred, the Chrysler 300 belies its advancing years and bashful mid-life update, and continues to carve out a viable, admired alcove for its maker. If you admired it before, you'll like it added now.
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