Chrysler 300 Gets New Look for Fashion Week

Fashion is the word of the lips of New Yorkers of late with Fashion Week finally coming back for the year. Everyone is talking about the latest and greatest in clothing design. How does a car maker come into the news during this event? They ask someone popular in the industry to give a helping hand.

Fashion Week may seem like an odd place to display a new Chrysler 300, but it’s completely appropriate when the name of the person who worked on it came out. John Varvatos is best know for his rock and roll inspired men’s wear. His work finds the meeting point of his love of fashion and love of music. Chrysler tapped him to give the Chrysler 300 a unique and classy look to go with the classy sedan.

What exactly did Varvatos do to 300? He gave the sedan a Phantom black tri-coat exterior and metallic finish that is meant to be similar to his own John Varvatos’ cologne bottle. He added a specially designed gauge cluster, including a pearlescent white-faced clock and Charcoal black metallic bezels, that are based on his latest watch collection. Then there’s the leather seating that look like his fitted-jacket collection.

Hiring Varvatos to work on a Chrysler vehicle seemed to make all the sense in the world to the company. A native of Detroit, he’s had cars in his blood for most of his life. “I’ve always been a car enthusiast since I was a young kid growing up in Detroit. I worked a couple of summers in a Chrysler plant assembling brake pads. I loved the grit of muscle cars when I was growing up. I love the roar of engines. I love the lines of those cars. I love the wheels on those cars, so throughout my life I’ve always paid a lot of attention to cars.”

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Chrysler Ranked Top 10 Car Brand of 2012

Total Car Score has released its list of the top 10 car brands of 2012, and this year, Chrysler beat out BMW and Kia to earn the #8 spot on the list.

The list’s rankings were based purely on reviews and performance. Total Car Score, also known as the Rotten Tomatoes of car review sites, collects reviews from the most trusted car critics including Consumer Reports, Edmunds, The Car Connection, and MSN Autos, and they calculate a composite score based on those reviews. Chrysler made the top 10 list right alongside other top-of-the-line brands like Infiniti, Mercedes-Bez, and Lexus.

For Chrysler, this is an amazing accomplishment. They are the second most improved brand on the list with an overall score of 79.78 and 3.71 point improvement from 2011. Only a short time ago, some people had counted Chrysler out, and yet here it is on the top 10 brands of 2012. Chrysler’s comeback continues, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

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May Sales Numbers Break Five-Year Record

In Chrysler’s now-famous 2012 Super Bowl ad, Clint Eastwood says, “It’s halftime, America, and our second half is about to begin.” According to the latest sales numbers, Chrysler is taking that to heart and winning big in its “second half.”

Comparing May 2011 to May 2012, Chrysler had a 30 percent sales jump, leading to the best sales numbers for Chrysler in five years. In that month alone, Chrysler sold 150,000 models and blew away their domestic and international competition. General Motors had an 11 percent sales increase, and Ford had a 13 percent increase. While Toyota also posted an enormous sales increase of 87 percent, that is expected considering that their production was affected by the earthquake in Japan.

Chrysler should be proud of the sales they have earned so far this year. To see these numbers so early on in the year is fantastic, and the Dodge Dart, their big car of 2012, hasn’t even been released yet. They might have broken their five-year sales record in May, but I don’t think it will be too long before that record is broken again.

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