Yahoo! Autos Custom Launches at SEMA

Yahoo! today announced the beta launch of Yahoo! Autos Custom, a new site that provides a suite of online tools and services that enable enthusiasts to find, use, share and expand their automotive knowledge. Premiering today at the 2005 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show, Yahoo! Autos Custom brings together a number of powerful features and resources never before available on one site, including personalized gallery pages, a new Installer Search tool, exclusive content and more. Via the AutoChannel

The new Yahoo site allows you to create a web page for your favorite ride. You'll need a free Yahoo ID to do that. If you have a Yahoo email account, you can use that to login. I created a page for what else, a 300C.

The Yahoo Autos Custom site offers photos, message boards, info on installers and a general search tool as well.

Dub Car Show San Francisco 2005

Here's a very nice 300C SRT8 shot from the front at the San Francisco Dub Car Show. Notes from CarDomain:

"The Cow Palace, in San Francisco, offered a jam packed day of music, rides,
bling, models and so much more. This was the 11th and final installment for the
2005 DUB Car Show events calendar. What better way to spend a Saturday
afternoon, than to check out the rides and kick it to the style of Twista, Mike
Jones, Trillville, and the Clipse and to DJ Lady Tribe burnin' up the
turntables? How better to complete an all-star event than with the host of all
hosts, Vida Guerra?"

Here's another: sweet!

Chrysler SRT8 Test Drive

Inside Line, a website from Edmunds has done a follow up test drive of the 2005 Chrysler SRT8.

"The biggest challenge when road testing the all-new Chrysler 300C SRT-8 is finding a suitable road. Normally testing cars in Southern California is a dream come true. Year-round warm weather, picturesque scenery and miles of twisting asphalt sound like the perfect equation for reviewing the latest four-wheeled conveyance. But the last two months have seen rainfall on a biblical scale, transforming much of the Golden State into a dismal shade of muddy brown."

I like the Bottom Line:
"It's got racecar poise wrapped in street-wise looks — the 21st Century Muscle Car has arrived."

Full review and SRT8 Video and here's another cool 300C SRT8 video

I have not been able to get myself to test drive the SRT8 yet. I know I'll want one and my 300C is still too new to even think of trading in or selling. What about both? BZZZZ! Wrong answer says the check book.

Tags: SRT8, Chrysler, Chrysler SRT8, 300c, Edmunds

Chrysler Chronos

While searching the web for 300C mods, I came across this very cool Chrysler concept car from 1998 called the Chronos. That grille look familiar?

Allpar has a great description of Chronos and why it was never put into production. If the cabin wasn't so small, I would seriously consider a car like this.

Links to other images of the Chrysler Chronos:
Interior exterior
Popular Mechanics
1998 NY Auto Show

300C Convertible

Somehow I missed this 300C convertible from West Coast Customs.

$150,000 300C

Here's something for the guy/gal that has everything - almost. How about a $150,000 custom 300C from West Coast Customs?

"At the recent Intel Developers Forum, West Coast Customs showed how it used Intel Centrino technology and the Windows Media platform to create the first Chrysler 300C Roadster. Aside from chopping the top, slamming the suspension, and spraying new paint, West Coast gave this car lots of digital audio and video, all controlled from a Wi-Fi PDA."

Sweet! via CNET Australia

Snoop Dogg and Iacocca Pitch Chrysler

Via Edmunds.com Inside Line:

In the latest installment of Chrysler's $75-million advertising campaign to promote its employee-pricing program, former Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg link up in a new TV spot that debuts on Saturday.

The two get together on a golf course to pitch the automaker's Employee Pricing Plus program, which gives customers the same prices available to Chrysler Group employees along with up to $3,500 cash back on nearly all remaining 2005 vehicles."

The Iacocca ads have not had a lot of positive response from what I've seen, at least within the advertising community.

Tags: Snoop Dogg, Lee Iacocca, Chrysler