The venerable Chrysler 300 will quickly exit manufacturing, however a alternative seems to be within the works.
Mopar Insiders studies a 300 successor was previewed to sellers at a gathering in Las Vegas final month, and it resembled a automobile depicted in wireframe again in 2021.
As a substitute of the blocky styling of the outgoing 300, the brand new automobile incorporates a sleeker five-door liftback physique type. The replacements for the present Dodge Charger and Challenger can even reportedly supply this physique format, alongside a two-door coupe.
Just like the next-generation Dodges, the 300 alternative is predicted to make use of the STLA Giant structure.
These underpinnings will assist electrical motors producing between 125kW and 330kW, creating the tantalising risk of dual-motor 660kW all-wheel drive powertrains.
STLA Giant autos can even have the ability to assist battery capacities from 101-118 kWh, facilitating a most vary of as much as 800km.
This platform can even assist combustion engines like the brand new Hurricane inline-six household, although no STLA Giant autos to this point have been confirmed to make use of these engines.
The model plans to go electric-only by 2027, and is ready to obtain new product within the form of a manufacturing model of the Airflow crossover idea, which is able to reportedly launch in 2024 as a 2025 mannequin.
Chrysler claims the idea has between 560km and 645km of vary.
After a number of a long time of being a close to full-line model, Chrysler now sells simply two fashions. One in all these is the 300, set to exit manufacturing by 2024, whereas the opposite is the Pacifica folks mover.
Its international footprint has shrunk, with Chrysler having departed Europe and exiting Australia final yr. And with a smaller line-up, US gross sales have plunged from virtually 650,000 autos in 2005 to simply 112,713 in 2022.
Bizarrely, Chrysler has resisted the worldwide development in the direction of SUVs. It has solely ever provided two: the 2004-08 Pacifica crossover, and the short-lived body-on-frame 2007-09 Aspen.
Whereas the modern styling of the 300 successor is a dramatic change from the stately 2005-10 and 2011-present generations of 300, the Chrysler model is not any stranger to modern massive sedans.
The 2005 300 was the alternative for the rakish front-wheel drive 300M, which was additionally offered alongside the curvaceous Concorde and LHS.
Chrysler additionally provided the mid-sized Cirrus sedan, later changed by the Sebring (offered right here from 2007 to 2009) after which the 200.
