Dealers installing vinyl roofs on 300C's - ignore Chrysler's requests to stop

MoPar Man · 2004-07-19T02:15:21+00:00

I was doing a google "news" search (not usenet) and saw this:---------------- USA: Customers crown Chrysler 300C with vinyl roofs as dealers ... UK - 21 Jun 2004... Chrysler officials reportedly are quietly asking dealers to stophaving the faux-convertible tops installed, but dealers say theresponse from customers has ... ----------------So Google has clipped some of the text of the article and is showingit. The link is: when I click on it, I get:---------------USA: Customers crown Chrysler 300C with vinyl roofs as dealers ignoremaker's objections 21 Jun 2004 Source: editorial team Article Summary:Some buyers are asking dealers to install 1970s-style vinyl roofs ontheir new Chrysler 300s, as many owners of Cadillacs and Lincolns havelong done and still do today, the Detroit News reported.---------------To get more of the article, I have to subscribe. Ok, fine. But cansomeone explain how google was able to obtain the whole article (andquote part of it - the part I can't even read from the link?).Anyways, interesting that some buyers want the landau roof dealeroption. Don't blame the dealers for offering it - most buyers must besmart enough to avoid the "clear-coat sealer" and "scotch-guard carpetprotection" gimicks that have been offered for decades. Good to seethe dealers finally clueing in on extras that have some value (in theeyes of some customers anyways). So why is Chrysler whining about dealers doing this? What - isChrysler planning a landau roof option of their own for the 2006 LXcars?

Jack Baruth 22 years ago

I can't help it, I'm a child of the Seventies. If I ran General Motors, I would command them to resurrect Oldsmobile and sell slightly modernized versions of the 1976 and 1978 Ninety-Eights in parallel - two great cars, go great together!. Every time I see a '79 Eldo Biarritz with the stainless steel top, I get goosebumps. And I tried to get the Euro-market velour interior in our last 330i.

When the 300C Coupe comes out it should have a vinyl top option. I bet you a lot of people would take it up. There's ample precendent to put a vinyl roof on a sporting full-sized coupe, the XJ6C and XJ12C not being the least impressive among that precedent.

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Peter A. Stavrakoglou 22 years ago

Would you crane your neck backwards while driving 75 MPH on the highway to stare at an ugly woman?

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Art 21 years ago

How about the chrome vent holes in the front fenders of some new Buicks.

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Matt Whiting 21 years ago

You didn't tell me you had a woman in the car with you! :-)

Matt

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Peter A. Stavrakoglou 21 years ago

LOL!

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Lisa Horton 21 years ago

A comeback for cruisoline ventiports?

Lisa

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kokomoNOSPAMkid 21 years ago

I had a white '66 Coronet 500 two door hardtop with a black vinyl roof, and to me, it made the car look much better than the non-vinyl roof version of the same car. I don't know if this is because it was MY car, but, to me, those cars still look better with vinyl. That said, I can't think of any four door car with a vinyl roof that ever did much for me.

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