300 C Hemi vs 2002 Boxster S

[Chuck Moreland]

This is a comparison of chalk and cheese.

My wife liked the looks of the 300, it is sharp looking for an american sedan. We decided to take a test drive.

We sat in the car, the interior looks like as$. With some reluctance we decided to drive it anyway... 100 yards later and it was clear we could not be buying a 300. That ride and handling are that bad.

You are driving a Porsche. It is not the fastest car off the line, that is not what it is about - never has been. Porsche has built its reputation as a great handling car, not a 1/4 mile burner. You would kill a 300 on a road coarse, that is what a porsche was built to do.

Porsche is the benchmark, the one to beat. You have the Porsche, he has the chrysler. Case closed.

[Bavarian Motorist]

Please don't take offense to this, but I personally think the 300 looks like crap.


It looks like it is trying to be a poor man's Bentley, (notice they sell wire mesh grilles as an option known as "Bentley styled grille")


And it does not look sharp and classy like a Bentley. It looks very boxy and bloated.



I'm not sure why this car appeals to so many, though I admit, when it first came out, I thought it was cool, but that was when I was 14 or 15?