2018 CHRYSLER 300 FIRST DRIVE: HIP HOP HOORAY

2018 CHRYSLER 300 FIRST DRIVE: HIP HOP HOORAY In this, its lucky 13th year of production with only one major redesign, the Chrysler 300 might not spring instantly to buyers’ minds when contemplating large cars for purchase. This quieter, more luxurious, and stoic sibling of the wilder, crazier Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger SRT Scat Packs, Hellcats, and wheelie-pulling Demons hasn’t drawn much attention to itself lately. Chrysler cancelled the 300’s high-powered SRT8 variant in 2015 just as Dodge began probing the outer limits of powertrain insanity. And although the results of a 23andMe cheek swab of the 300 will reveal DNA evidence of ancient ancestral migration from Stuttgart, Germany (thanks to some turn-of-the-century W210 E- and W220 S-Class bits), this car feels neither ancient nor the least bit Swabian.