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2008 Chrysler 300C - Hemi AWD car review
Feb 4, 2025
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by now you should have the impression
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that the 300C is one of those cars with
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a really big engine that isn't noisy
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unless he want it to be and and also
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that it can take a tight corner here and
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there but what we're going to show you
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with the next clip is just how amazing
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the 300 C really is because we're going
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to take the wheel spin it all the way
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over to the left take a 90° turn in a
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deserted parking lot just that you know
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that we care about safety and just mash
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the pedal down to the ground and let the
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340 horsepower Hemi push the car
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wherever it will and you'll notice that
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it pushes the car exactly where we're
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pointing it under Full Throttle and then
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around to turn at fairly high
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speed hi my name is Dave and I'm going
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to show you R to 300C but first we're
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going to see how big the crunk is
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so if you ever have to live out of your
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car at least you know that you fit in
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the
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trunk it's even bigger if you fold the
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rear seats
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down so here we are in the 2008 Chrysler
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300C
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and the first thing that you might
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notice is that there is a bit more
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Chrome than before and as you can see as
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we wave back and forth there are these
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little concentric
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circles on the
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gauges and these circles give a rather
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nice upscale feel and make the interior
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seem a bit nicer than the previous 300C
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which was
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plain and a bit
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sparten now if we go down here we turn
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on on the lights and you'll notice that
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those have a nice whitish Brown
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backlight and here you see the
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traditional well the new
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traditional indow lighting but it only
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lights up the outside of the Rings not
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the
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inside looking Beyond you see the center
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console and again the clock has nice
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silver ring around it the inevitable my
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gig system with a 30 GB hard drive and
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of course the keychain also has the
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silver around
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it silver trim everywhere in
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fact and even up here this car has the
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luxury package so it's got real wood and
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underneath the real wood is real Chrome
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or at least real plastic Chrome now this
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particular car has this funny looking
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key which as you can see has Panic
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unlock lock a trunk opener a clicked
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here twice to start and two empty PS
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which we have no idea what they're for
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but switches can be placed there so
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maybe you'll be able to heat up your
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seats remotely next year so we put the
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key in you
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notice it's not a real key you can take
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out the real
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Key by pulling this lever you can do it
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if you have more than one hand
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free and here is an actual real life key
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that's in case of emergency you can
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still get into your car
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but how do you then start up your car
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the answer is is that if you put it in
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here there will be just enough charge
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left for the car to recognize your key
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and it kind of makes sense to not bother
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having real metal keys for the ignition
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because they've been using the radio
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signals
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anyway and here you see the rather nice
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interior a real upgrade compared to the
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2006 version and a nice decent size back
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[Applause]
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seat in some ways this more convenient
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than the normal radio control old key
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that you press a button on because you
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have a place to hang your
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keys so let's run one the nice things
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about the all-wheel drive is that it
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lets you have much faster takeoff if you
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have to turn the wheel so for example
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right now we're going to make a right
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hand turn and we're just going to lay
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down some
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rubber that the car went exactly where
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we pointed
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it we had no under steer as we would
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sometimes have from some other systems
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and on the older truck type systems we
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wouldn't have been able to make such a
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tight
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turn while in four-wheel drive mode and
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that can actually get you in trouble I
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remember once trying to do a quick
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U-turn and the all-wheel drive engaged I
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ended up backing up onto Route
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208 here we go okay face point at the
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speedometer zo ready
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it really does give you confidence when
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you're
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accelerating especially on a road that
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might be a little bit wet or slippery to
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know that not only does the all-wheel
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drive keep all four tires working but
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the stability
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control will kick in if it's needed and
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the stability control works better than
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most in that it actually pays attention
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to where you're pointing the steering
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wheel as opposed to just trying to keep
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you in a straight line now the cornering
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is really pretty incredible in this car
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it really does handle like a sports
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car in terms of just keeping all our
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tires on the road usually without having
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to engage stability control so you can
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take a 90° turn at 25 mph with
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absolutely no problem and not having to
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touch the
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brake so let's just go Zoomies again
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ready this floor it kicks down a little
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bit and zooms
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up the highway speed the car is pretty
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quiet there's only a little bit of noise
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from the road in the
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wind and it's a diffused noise it
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doesn't seem to be coming from anywhere
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in
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particular the ride is a little bit busy
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even on this nicely paved Road that's
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one of the sacrifices that you have to
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make for the really good cornering here
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we
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go I have to make the squeeling noise
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because the car won't do it so here
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we're going at about 25 M hour and we
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make our left hand
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turn and we don't slow down for it we do
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it
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again the tire stone squeal and the
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stability control does not activate it's
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really pretty incredible
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okay and one of the nice
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things is that you can very easily gain
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30 mph on demand just by stomping down
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the Gas Pedal which is something that I
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can't say for every car that has good 0
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to 60 times because it's one thing to go
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from 0 to 60 and it's another thing to
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just push down a pedal and Sun would be
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going let's just say from 50 to
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60 over here there's just one knob for
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onof and volume you have to CL the
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buttons to tune up and
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down and again if you want to fiddle
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with the Acoustics it's a matter of
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going through several
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screens likewise
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going from FM to am you have to find the
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tab and press the tab now let's take a
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look at the rear seat video open this
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up this
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up and in just a moment you can see The
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Incredibles at least you
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could if was on the right
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channel it's on
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DVD let's press the mod button
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what radio I
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guess satellite
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TV so now let's take another quick look
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through the interior of the 300C we're
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playing the movie now in case you are
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wondering and it's not really about
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putting your sunglasses into the
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convenient upper sunglass storage case
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although that certainly is a convenient
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thing to have have and a convenient
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place to put sunglasses
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