With most producers transferring extra towards electrification, particularly since Tesla burst onto the scene and accelerated the adoption of electrical autos over a decade in the past, it simply would not make sense for Chrysler to maintain providing a sedan with such archaic underpinnings.

The Chrysler 300’s LX platform, which it shares with the seventh-generation Dodge Charger, was up to date and renamed LD in 2011, nevertheless it nonetheless borrowed closely from the Mercedes W211 E-Class platform launched in 2002. One of its limitations is that it would not help all-wheel drive if the automobile has a V8, which reduces the mannequin’s attraction particularly amongst these patrons who’re on the lookout for massive and highly effective sedans — providing all-wheel drive on the highest engine is necessary in its section of the market.

Safety is one other key promoting level, and the 300 cannot match extra fashionable vehicles in the case of both passive or energetic security aids. When the IIHS examined it in 2015, it discovered the 300 to be structurally sound by means of most of its crash exams, though the automobile suffered extra deformation than many modern sedans within the small overlap crash take a look at.