There is also neil diamond on there.

Should I look under the seats for drugs?

Easy, don't confuse gangsters with pretentious Bentley owning wannabees!

must admit I did wonder abou the 'lack of room' comment had a ride in a mates one 4 fat boys (2 6'+) and there was bags of room and very comfortable. Problem is that to a certain type of person if it isn't VAGMW it's crap end of.

At the end of the day they're a good/quirky looking car and set apart from the sheeple who drive Germanic products

That doesn't change the fact it is a big car inside as well as outside.

Looks like he's talking about you. Let me guess you are a BMW driver? I notice you have not filled out your garage section in your profile.

He did not say they were the same or as good just that they are a quirky alternative. It does have a mercedes Engine which so far is excellent.

I am puzzled by the guy saying there is a lack of head room. I am only 1 inch short than the guy saying it wasn't very good so i looked above my head today and its got loads.perhaps its a little less than the others but I can't imagine its that much of a problem

Rear room seems at least equal if not bigger than any other big german cars.

It's not a quirky alternative.

It's a quirky alternative to the likes of your Honda Legend, Mondeo etc.

It's not remotely close to entering the executive section even though it desperately tries to yet fails miserably.

Define 'executive section' for us who are too stupid to understand.

Yet beneath the veneer of stupidity he does actually have a point.

I've defended these cars on here many a time, so I'm not - to borrow the vernacular of rappers and inner city white teenagers - a hater.

They have their place in the market, they're big, super comfy, come with some cracking engines in them (Anyone who doesn't like a Hemi doesn't deserve the air they breathe), and so on. But, they're certainly not [despite what the marketing fluff might claim], in the same class as the exec cars they were pitched as being an alternative to. I've done a good few thousand miles in a fully loaded 300c across 5 states, so while I can't claim to have owned one I like to think I'm not just regurgitating what the Clarksonites on the net tell me.

Volvo, the sea of grey German fluff, and some of the offerings from the east are definitely of much higher fit and finish standards, and while I'm not one to harp on about how fluffy the plastics are or whine because the heated seats switch has too much of a positive action, there's certainly far more finesse and thought gone into things like trim fit, switchgear, displays etc. It's not to say the 300c is bad, but it's not as good. I'd put it on par with a late model Vectra, make of that what you will. To drive they're not bad, a bit ungainly on the bumpy stuff, a bit wooly in most areas, and certainly make you aware of their size when you open the taps, but they're by no means bad.

I'd still have one though. I like the oddball looks, the fact there's not one on every BHS wearing middle managers driveway, and the fact you can get a thumping great Hemi in there at the expense of a more premium feeling door handle. They also do motorways very well and by all accounts pretty damn reliable. Given they share many of the same parts bins as a car I'm just about to buy, I can certainly live with it

Chrysler is Mercedes

300C was developed by Daimler-Chrysler (ie part German, lol)

I admit the interior quality is not up there (the dashboard appears to be made from the same thin plastic as yogurt pots), but as a viable alternative they're pretty good especially if you want more motor for your money.


As for all this nonsense about 'gangsta' image? Suggest these posters need to go back to reading the Daily Mail...In fact whilst I support freedom of speach, can we not ban all Daily Mail readers altogether from posting as their views appear to be completely anti-PH!