2006 Chrysler 300 Base Review - The FIRST Generation 300!
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:29 - Drivetrain
3:43 - Interior
5:20 - BFB Test
5:39 - Interior
6:09 - Back Seats
7:04 - Trunk / Cargo Space
7:33 - Exterior
8:22 - Final Thoughts
11:20 - Outro - Auta a dopravní prostředky
My Grandma had one of these with the 5.7 V8 Hemi and I remember shortly after I got my drivers license she picked me up and let me drive for hours. What an awesome introduction to driving that was
@@evanmiller929 that sounds like one awesome grandma... The v8??? That's crazy 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I loved these when they came out. That 2.7 wasn’t strong enough for this heavy of a car though. And yes they weren’t reliable. The 3.5 was better but the 5.7 in one of these was the way to go. The 2.7 performed best in the Sebring/ stratus which were much lighter.
The most popular vehicle in a mid 2000s hip hop song.
When Chrysler was good. Midnight Club 3 dub Edition!
The V8 300C is actually quite durable and reliable.
Chrysler wasn’t that good. The interior was made of crappy plastic in retrospect. This car was just nice bc we didn’t have anything like it in a long long time.
Hah! I owned and babied a 2009 300c, second owner, previous owner was a retired couple. That thing was such a piece of crap! Great engine, but everything else was crap.
I remember as a kid not being able to distunguish the 300 over a Rolls Royce
That sounds very American 😂
how unfortunate
Same, I used to think Rolls Royces where Chrysler 300s
Well they did ape the look
Wtf. Are you blind?
It's insane how many problems this car had at only 57k miles. It's sad, because it has a super iconic exterior.
The rentals I drove of these were shocking in how many problems they had. I've owned Chryslers before and after the Daimler era, these were on a whole other level of problems.
In my country (Singapore), Chrysler 300s were used as limo taxis. Most taxis in Singapore at the time were diesel powered, so the 300 used a 3.0 litre turbodiesel V6 from Merc. I remember sitting in one when I was younger and I legitimately thought it was the most boujee car I've sat in. The flagdown rate for those taxis weren't cheap though at $5.
Second comment: My best friend at the time, his dad had a silver 300. It was a mid trim model with the larger V6, and the wheels were these weird looking solid dinner plates without any distinguishable spokes. The higher up you go in trims, the more luxurious it gets with the wood trim and wood steering wheel. The stereo I believe was Boston Acoustics?
These cars had such a road presence that just doesn't exist anymore in today's SUV riddled roads. I would seriously buy one of these today if they weren't such a reliability nightmare.
Lastly, I remember the sun reflecting off all those chrome accents on the dials and gauges and shifter in the interior. It looks nice, but man, my eyes! Lol
This section 8 bentley is in surprisingly good condition
My dad had a 1999 chrysler 300m and we took that on so many trips, what a wonderful car it was. And it had a 3.5 liter Benz v6, used on some modern mercedes products like the ml, gl, and e class.
I take issue with the 2.7 6 cylinder engine when everyone condemns it for being what it is! Does it have problems? Yes, but not if you know enough about maintenance if you own one! I have a 2002 Dodge Intrepid with 126000 miles on it that also has that same engine and I have NEVER had a problem with it! I've owned the car since new and I still love it as much as I did when I brought it home!!! The engine is routinely maintained every 3-4ooo miles!!! No sludge, no water pump issues...NOTHING!!!! So, go ahead and belittle that engine till the cows come home, and I'll still be driving mine around!!!
It still looks fire!!!
The 3.5L engine was reliable and proven from the ealy 90s dodge Intrepid. If you optioned the Chrysler 300 with the 3.5L with a touring Pkg with the Mercades transmission, it was a very reliable smooth car.
Excellent and enjoyable review
These 300s were popular in England.. the first gens for the European market were built in Austria. Then second gen models imported from Canada.
I was literally imaging that Chrysler smell its funny you mentioned it. My dad had an '07 base. I still remember the smell, sometimes my '22 Charger even has it lol
this is my favorite car EVER in terms of looks, i wish i'll get to have one..
Aways loved 300s as a kid. and you're right about that chrysler smell, its a distinct smell. that mixed with that green color gives me a warm childhood feeling
Beautiful! Timeless! Comfy! ❤
The upper trims were nice. Super soft leather seats & the TV in the center console as a kid was always a fun time
This is when they were DaimlerChrysler
if only Chrysler made the Imperial concept of the same year
The Seventh, and unfortunately, Last Generation (1990-3) Imperial was SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CAR with those wrap-around taillights made just 90 minutes North by NorthWest of Chicago!!!!!😎😎Unfortunately, I haven't seen one in Forever and road salt has surely taken MANY of them.
My opinion, they should never have offered a "BASE" model with the 2.7L V-6 and plastic hubcaps. It cheapened the brand with was awsome in the Limited and C editions.
You DEFINITELY gotta do a review on the SRT8 6.1L HEMI Version now!!
In 2009 I shopped used Dodge Magnums, which IIRC had the same engines available as the 300. I remember there being a larger 6 that made ALL the difference if you were determined to avoid the 8.
Even for a Base model
It still looks fire imo
As someone who grew up outside the U.S., I idolized American cars in the 80s and 90s. It's truly sad and astonishing to see the decline in American manufacturing, as exemplified by the quality of this car.
I just recently sold my 2010 Chrysler 300C for a 2021 Mazda 3 Turbo AWD Hatch, I miss the black pearl quite a bit the 5.7L Hemi was so much fun to thrash. I dropped it on BC Racing coilovers and it on some proper summer slicks it looked and felt great. I owned it for nearly 5 years and it didn't ever let me down, I got a surprising amount of attention and compliments from it as well clean first gens are getting a lot less common. Best first car I think I could've possibly gotten I wish I could've justified keeping her. The 2.7L, the 3.5L and 4 speed suck, in my experience though the 5.7L and 5 speed NAG1 hold up pretty well just make sure it was well taken care of and it should do you well.
I'd buy one of those and Hemi swap it. Too bad one of the last cars Chrysler ever made was discontinued without a successor.
I have an 05 hemi c. Its an incredible first car and i love it dearly
Zack should watch Michael Scott’s video of his Scranton Branch he presented to David Wallace
“Life moves a little slower here in Scranton Pa”
Old Chryslers will always have a place in my heart. My area could not get enough of 300s they were EVERYWHERE when they came out. One of the earliest memories with one was when I was 4 and my dad’s larger friend gave us a ride in it brand new, and he said “you like the car little man?” And to which i responded “yes i do! Too bad you’re too fat to fit in it” and my parents never forgot that moment
I had one of these as a rental when I interviewed for a job in Newport News in 2006. Coming from a Mazda 3 and Honda Accord, it seemed strangely oversized and claustrophobic at the same time, thanks to the small windows. The quality of the interior plastics and trim was also remarkably bad for what was supposed to be a luxury car. Thanks, Doctor Zee, for crapifying Chrysler products so they didn't encroach on the luxury of Mercedes!
1st of all, nice w211 e class,
now for my rant
i, an european, have never seen these headlights on a 300, i am used to the smaller, rounded ones, i did some research and basically the rectangular headlights mean V6 and the rounder (cooler looking ones) mean V8, idk why chrysler decided to make them have 2 different front ends but it's nice that you can tell them apart so easily
Thanks for it.
Can you update your mazda3 now?Thanks.
Full American Sedan? It’s a Mercedes-Benz W210 in drag!
The review was humorous for me with the whole American trunk, it feels like ours. When in actuality it was the outgoing W210 chassis from those guys on the Axis. 😂
Ah yes, the good ol’ hood rolls royce.
Take a shot every time he (wrongly) declares this as the first generation
Yeah, Wikipedia says the 300 started in 1964!!🧐
The 5.7 was crazy cool, if only Chrysler products wanted to survive longer than 97k miles. Felt very "big body sedan" as it should be.
I couldn't believe to hear a 2.7 still. Rip to the next owner lol
In 2005, I wanted my mom to get a base 300, but it was just out of her price rainge. She ended up getting an 05 Camry, an insanely better choice.
Decent looking car.
I like the looks of those cars, I like the 'white-faced' gauges.
Antilock brakes were optional on this generation of 300, one of the last cars where ABS wasn't standard. There's a chance this car doesn't have ABS. I remember watching Jeremy Clarkson reviewing one of these, though his probably wasn't the base model. The white-faced Indiglo gauges still look classy. I'm curious what this car's story is, why the buyer ordered a base model and why it has so few miles. It's pretty clean with the exception of the Midwest rust.
Cloth seats should be optional on every trim. Cloth seats don't get burning hot in the summer, don't get freezing cold in the winter, breathe well, and don't require regular conditioning.
Oh,I thought ABS was mandated by 2000 or so! All of the cars I've had that were built since about 1995 had ABS. What year was it mandated?
Whether it's this first gen or the second gen (2011-2023), I believe the lower trim levels really did a lot to erode the reputation of the 300 nameplate and sales figures.
The 5.7 isn't reliable either, and that one IS in many other vehicles. Pointing this out because I had watched a YT review and nowhere did they say the 5.7 had its major weaknesses too. On researching found many issues. Just good to know!
Well, you look hard enough, you can find issues with Anything. Peeps say the GM 2.5 Iron Duke is bulletproof. I went through three of them. And None of them made it to 100,000 miles.
😊 video is good I enjoyed watching it is
Just to let you know I'm from the south and there is absolutely nothing about the Midwest that makes me feel home. Respectfully
At least we know where the CD player is
The first generation Chrysler 300 was in 1955 dude. This isn’t a “first gen” cause it’s a C, it’s a 300. Which first started its name in 1955!!!
Yeah, nope. Those letter series cars have absolutely nothing to do with LX cars. The 300M totally broke any connection (which was a cynical 300 badge glued onto the Eagle Vision at the last minute). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_300
I prefer the tach on the left.
@redneon06 I do too.
There was an episode of MTV cribs with G-Unit, and they were all showing their cars. 50 Cent wasn't in the segment, but the rest of the guys showed his 2005 Chrysler 300. This was sometime in 2003 I believe, so he must have gotten a pre -production model as the car wouldn't have actually been released to the public yet.
I found the segment: czcams.com/video/DQ1b7VeiKkw/video.htmlsi=pmLUlg9ZwnopeTw2
It’s incredibly shocking that any car with that 2.7L is still on the road. 60k miles is longer than most of those engines have lasted, I’ve known people with avengers that had gone through 5 engines within 80k miles of ownership
@@TheFalseProdigy here in Europe there are millions of much smaller engined cars still on the road @ over 100,000 miles....and diesels 200,000 plus!
@@markhealey9409the Chrysler 2.7 is one of the worst engines ever made. Almost 60k miles is beyond borrowed time on this engine.
@@markhealey9409 The problem(s) of the Chrysler 2.7 V6 are because it was poorly designed, not because of its size.
@@kc9scottsorry,I reread your statement,& see you now you were speaking about that particular engine.
It was due to the timing chain driven water pump and poor ventilation.
In Europe they were sold as a badge engineered Lancia's
And its funny u mentioned midnight club 3.. That game was the reason why i thought these 300s were awesome
Had a coworker who had one with the 3.5 in it. 😊
Weird to see one in such good shape. I only see these in the hood on rims with faded headlights and peeling paint.
Mazda 3s do have rear ac vents 🙂
I reviewed a newer 300S on my channel. I had mixed opinions and feelings about it.
As a kid I like it because of MC3 DUB 😂 has to be burgundy though . But not on 24s
The 2.7 V6 was made specifically for the Dodge Intrepid and should have never saw the light of day in this car. It was an absolute dog….
It was a dog in the Intrepid as well.
The platform is one of the few benefits Chrysler got from Mercedes.
The ultimate hood status symbol
Good review. The 2.7 was one of the biggest contributor to destroying Chrysler's reputation (along with the ultradrive). I never understood why they put that powerless, inefficient, unreliable, unrefined engine in the LX cars. I drove one as a rental and it wouldn't even chirp the tires.
If they wanted an engine below the 3.5, they should have used the bulletproof 3.3 OHV. Those had decent low end torque to haul a heavy car around while getting decent fuel economy.
I remembered that the base 300 had cloth interior. This was the consequence of making one model to replace both the 300M and Concorde. The Concorde was made in the tradition of the Newport (a Plymouth offering under a Chrysler label). This undercut the luxury image of the caring a person was spending at the time $45k for a top of the line SRT model which looked similar to the $24k base model (the cheapening of the interior Daimler did also didn't help either).
That is not the first gen, they made em for a long time, just the first gen out of the new style of 300’s
i miss the 300, taurus, impala and mercury grand marquis .
I *love* the exterior styling on these cars. I've always wanted to get one, gut the awful modern interior, and put a nice '70s interior in it. Bucket seats in an American sedan are a sin. Probably not worth the effort, though...
Still a beautiful design. A shame the second gen was so generic and forgettable.
2.7L V6 with a 4 speed auto in a huge sedan. I bet that thing is DIABOLICALLY slow.
This is a car for cruising, not racing.
@@bwofficial1776 Oh I’m very aware of that. Still though.
There’s really not much American about this car besides the badge since it’s built on an ancient Mercedes platform (still using the same one today) and the engine was co-developed with Mitsubishi. Idk why you’re surprised this has rear vents when a new Mazda 3 doesn’t, most economy cars don’t have them, and even this base model was a price and size class or two above a Mazda 3
You say "ours" but the Chesler 300 has the underpinnings of the W211 Mercedes E-Class 🤷♂️
The car driven by Bree in Desperate Housewives.
Ah yes, the ghetto Bentley.
*Rolls Royce 😂
🤔Would a 318 fit? No no! A 225 slant 6! Yea buddy!
I thought these were cool when they first came out
Til a Rolls Royce pulls up
You could bet 1,000,000 on an American made car not truck car that last 200,000m. You would get your money worths
Just a pimped Mercedes, nuthing American about these C300s. 😅
The luxury sedan of struggling Americans
A poor mans royce
This video is for you Chrysler 300 owners! that have 30% car loans , multiple black ice tree air fresheners hanging and complaining about their "baby-daddies"
?
Ahh, the minimum wage Rolls Royce
Hellcat swap
Very Unreliable indeed LOL though it looked cool
These are painfully slow
this car is a ripoff its not a phantom
Plastic steering wheel - yuck
Very junky cars.
Not even close to a first gen 300. For the LX platform in 05 yes but in general no. I owned 2 LH based ones. I had 2 02 300M Specials 3.5L HO of course here in the states the Euro spec could be had with the 2.7. I also had an 02 Intrepid R/T 3.5 HO and my first car when I was 12 was a 96 Intrepid ES 3.5. Great cars but the 2.7 was terrible. Get one with the 3.5 and it's great. I also had an 08 300C SRT8 6.1L very fun. Also they never had a 6 speed they had the nag1 5 speed and in 2012 they introduced the german ZF 8 speed