Driving Impressions
After a generation of mostly tepid front-wheel-drive family sedans,
the Chrysler 300 has led the return to rear-drive dynamics that
Americans took for granted decades ago. Based on a good deal of
Mercedes-Benz technology underneath, the 2009 Chrysler 300 is far more
impressive in its driver control and handling than the rear-drive,
full-size behemoths of yore. The Limited and 300C's new comfort
suspension tuning should appeal to those buyers hunting for a
comfortable cruising sedan, while the new 300C Heritage package and its
tauter suspension plays the opposite game for those hunting for
handling to match the big Hemi engine. Still, no 300 can quite match
the thrilling yet refined Pontiac G8 GT -- not even the wild 300 SRT8.