Automotive Guide - Chrysler
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Chrysler's full-size
Aspen SUV handles like a sports sedan

The vehicle business is loaded with contradictions and compromises. If you design a big vehicle, you want to make it drive small. If you're developing a small car, you want to make it drive big.

If it doesn't have much power, you want to make it feel powerful. If it has a lot of power, you'd like to emphasize that it can be driven economically as well. If it's a truck, you want its handling to be more car-like. If you have a car, you want the driver to sit up high so it feels more like a truck.

Read more about the Chrysler Aspen SUV.

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Sebring steps up in the mid-size class

An enduring line in movie history came when Marlon Brando, as Terry Malloy in "On the Waterfront," blurted in frustration, "I coulda been a contender."

Chrysler has been in somewhat the same situation in the mid-size sedan field, which is the most competitive and densely populated in the car business.

Read more about the Chrysler Seabring.

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