The interior trunk release, for instance, has been relocated from inside the glove box to the left side of the steering column. * Chrysler brags about Concorde’s ergonomic efficiency. * Undersized side mirrors built blind spots that actually swallowed a Jeep Grand Cherokee. * On any station, in several towns, AM or FM, music and chat shows were accompanied by a gentle dinging sound. Or the button was electronically brain dead. * Thumbing the hand remote to open the trunk fell on deaf sensors. Clipped back on, it popped right back out, clearly dissatisfied with its purpose in life. * A plastic anchor cover sought asylum in our left ear the first time the seat belt was hooked up. Plastic pieces fell off, and trim seemed to be glued no tighter than a wet Band-Aid.Įqually mournful problems came with our test car, an LXi with only 700 miles on the odometer.
These large sedans weren’t quite as sophisticated as their Asian attackers, and reliability problems became chronic. LH cars were lower, handled like no Chryslers before, and their styling broke more cookie cutters than Nabisco. They borrowed a cab-forward design from Europe that increased interior room by reducing overhangs and shoving wheels far into the four corners. That’s when the LH cars, the Concorde-Intrepid-Vision triplets from the Chrysler-Dodge-Eagle triumvirate, flattened the catcher and crashed across home plate. was to give Concorde the look of a sporty coupe while maintaining the practicality of a sedan.”ĭaring has been a high priority at Chrysler since 1993. Such as exhuming a museum piece for that determined snout, which sports a winged medallion resurrected from 1924 when it appeared on Walter P. “We wanted to capture the essence of the landmark cars,” says exterior designer Mark Hall. That should silence auto show-goers who believe concept cars are vehicles lost in space, representing little beyond stylists’ egos gone amok. Overall, the second-generation shape of the Concorde is a futuristic pod, an elegant thing merging advanced aerodynamics with gentle arcs and a snout-down defiance that was the performance look of last year’s Chrysler LHX show car.