Originally Posted by MI Roadster
A cool thing I learned with this mustang that I never saw before...The windows open about 1/2 - 3/4 inch when you open the doors and close back up after the door shuts. It happens really fast. That makes it very easy to close them and if both doors happen to get closed at the same time, they both close easily.
Here's a quote from a Forbes review in early 2004 that was otherwise very favorable about the Crossfire in every other way:"Open the door of a Chrysler Crossfire and you may or may not notice something missing.
"You'd notice something missing if you've been shopping across the segment of near-luxury sports cars priced at $30,000 to $40,000. Because then you might be opening the doors to a lot of two-seaters, say for instance that of the $29,250 Infiniti G35 Sports Coupe. What happens when you open that car's door that doesn't happen on the Crossfire? The window drops, ever so slightly.
"Close the door on that Infiniti and the window would hold its millimeter-lower position for just an instant, then bump back upwards, flush with the rubber seal.
"This tiny detail isn't so tiny--a lot of carmakers that employ rimless doors (where there's no bracket of metal around the glass) use this mechanism these days because over time it saves the rail that holds the window on track. So, say 50,000 miles of door slamming later, the window still shuts tight against the door frame, and retains a weatherproof and windproof seal."
It's obviously a nice engineering touch, and I wish we had it too, but we don't, so just be careful when you close the doors...