New Camry challenging Chrysler 200 Sedan Specs

Chrysler has apparent its new mid-sized amateur to battling the Camry, Accord and Chevy Malibu. Named 200, this adolescent brother to the 300 kills off the Sebring nameplate and will go on auction as a 2011 model. Fiat now owns Chrysler, but the Sterling Heights, Michigan congenital 200 isn’t a reskinned Italian car.

Described as a car that appeals to “customers that wish appearance and substance, all at a hasty value”, the 200 is based on the third-gen Sebring, which fabricated its admission in 2007, but with heavily revised administration that makes it arise abundant added handsome than before.

New $.25 cover foreground and rear fascias and fenders, grille featuring the new Chrysler active badge, hood, rear decklid and exoteric mirrors, new projector headlamps and fog lamps, new LED taillamps and a LED centre high-mounted stop light. The rear end acutely apes the Jaguar XF.

The 200 will be powered by the 2.4-litre four-pot “World Engine” akin to either a four-speed or six-speed automated gearbox. The V6 advantage is abounding by the company’s 3.6-litre Pentastar engine akin to a six-speed auto.

Chrysler says that ride and administration has been bigger acknowledgment to stiffened physique mounts and a softer ride rate, bigger abeyance geometry with a aloft cycle centre and a new rear amplitude bar. NVH has been “extensively upgraded” from the old car as well.

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