http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...ESS01/71031072

 

Since the article mentioned the underpinnings I doubt it will be limited to the coupe.

 

If you go to the canadian chrysler website http://www.chrysler.ca/en/ you will find only the roadster is available.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/bu...hp&oref=slogin

Also leaving the lineup are the Dodge Magnum, a low-slung station wagon, and the Chrysler Crossfire two-seater. Both those vehicles are based on underpinnings from Mercedes-Benz, which is owned by Chrysler’s former parent, Daimler AG.
Also leaving the lineup are the Dodge Magnum, a low-slung station wagon, and the Chrysler Crossfire two-seater. Both those vehicles are based on underpinnings from Mercedes-Benz, which is owned by Chrysler’s former parent, Daimler AG.

If it says it in the NY Times it must be true ;-)

 

Am I the only one kinda happy to hear this? We coupe owners are one step closer to our cars becoming classics and less abundant on the motorways. I've had this feeling lately whenever I see a new Crossfire I hadn't seen around town before. It is something like, "what the hell, that's my car!" then I pull up beside them and wave and talk to them, because we all love the car. Always great to meet other owners, I just like the smaller community and my car always being a head turner as opposed to, say, a PT Cruiser, Miata, or 350z.

 

exactly how i feel...

It is funny that there are no more than 400 Graphite Srt-6 coupes and there is one other one like mine in my 2sq mile town...

 

The great thing is there are a lot of SLK's out there so in the future, parts won't be so hard to find like other short lived cars.

 

Great News!

 

^^^Especially for you!!! LOL

VROOOOM VROOOOOM. Hey is that a V8 I hear?

 

According to today's Autoweek, the Crossfire roadster is being dropped. Maybe it's both.

DETROIT -- Chrysler LLC, ending days of speculation, said today it will slash 8,500 to 10,000 hourly jobs before the end of 2008 and cut four vehicles from its lineup as it restructures under the ownership of Cerberus Capital Management LP.

Another 1,000 salaried jobs also are being cut, along with about 37 percent of its contract workers, the company said. Chrysler also will eliminate hourly and salaried overtime.

The cuts in the hourly workforce would equal about 17.5 percent of the company's 57,000 union employees in the U.S. and Canada.

Chrysler will drop shifts at Belvidere (Ill.) Assembly, Jefferson North in Detroit, Toledo (Ohio) North, Brampton (Ontario) Assembly, Sterling Heights (Mich.) Assembly and Mack Avenue Engine Plant II in Detroit. Three of the five plants will eliminate a third shift: Belvidere, Toledo and Brampton.

Chrysler will cut the Dodge Magnum, the Chrysler PT Cruiser convertible, the Chrysler Pacifica crossover and the Chrysler Crossfire convertible.

In the same time frame, Chrysler said it will add two products: the Dodge Journey crossover and Dodge Challenger coupe. It also will add two hybrid SUVs, the Chrysler Aspen and Dodge Durango.

 

Not that we were ever really in trouble of being overwhelmed by Crossfires on the roads, this only magnifies the exclusivity of these little cars. Think about how infrequently a car like this falls into special circumstances such as the Crossfires that make it almost an immediate classic. Unique, baroque design that has Mercedes Benz heritage and underpinnings under a different badge. Overpriced from the start, combined with its polarizing styling and lack of "everyday" comforts, sales dwindled. Chrysler splits with MB, the manufacturing of the low sales XFires is no longer a priority and attention shifts away leaving all of us reap the benefits! Now the only thing will be service in the long - term, better start learning how to DIY or find a good independent MB dealer. I guarantee in a few years when you take your Crossfire into a Chrysler dealer they probably won't have a clue what to do with it!

 

Most Chrysler dealers don't have a clue now!
Pete

 

I like it when a fairly rare car I own ends production. I don't like driving what everyone else drives ...

Mike

 

Absolutely. My dealership says they only have one service employee who is "qualified" to work on Crossfire's.

I think that's there excuse for taking forever to do anything with my car. Or I guess a better phrasing is, to do NOTHING with my car.

Thanks,
#1 Griper...

 

It is too bad you can't take these to a Mercedes Dealer for warrenty service. the independeant I found to help me with some ECU programming was shocked when I opened the hood of my car. He had never been under the hood of a Crossfire. He made all his other techs stop what they were doing and come take a look. They all laughed and said it was 100% SLK320 under the hood and they would feel comfortable working on anything on the car.

I myself will be buying a servicing CD and only use a mechanic when I can't do it myself.

 

No one has mentioned that since the USD has reached an all time low against the EUR, this would make the Crossfire loses even greater from Chrysler.

Based on currency alone I don't blame them for making that decision. German manufacturers are looking at building more cars in the US and VW is already shopping around for a new plant to start up.

 

It would have been nice if there was an agreement that allowed Crossfire Owners to service thier cars at an MB dealer. I went to change the oil on my SRT last weekend and they didn't even have a filter in stock!

Thier reply: "Well, very few people own an SRT-6."

And this is suppossed to be a Crossfire service facility! I'm going back again next Saturday (they ordered the filter in) and I'm curious to see what they the service technician will say when he sees the car.

 

hey if the magnum is gone doesnt it share the same chasis as the 300 and charger???? this doesnt seem right at and the new challenger is supposed to be built on a modified charger chasis.... that must be wrong. any hardcore mopar guys know the answer to this?

 

The Magnum is going bye bye. The Charger, 300 and Challenger live on. The Magnum has been a sales BOMB since day one. I was working for a Dodge dealer when they came out in 2005. The finely got rid of the last "new" 2005 Magnum RT in Feburary of this year. Sound like a familiar scenario? For every Magnum we sold, we sold 15-20 Chargers... Of course it did sell well in a few areas, but in general it was a niche vehicle just like ours. The bottom line is, people are still tramatized by visions of fake wood paneling. Big Wagons are just not going to do well in the US.

 

In the great scheme of things, anytime you build less than 100,000 vehicles in 5 years of production, that's not considered to be a lot of cars.
Now I don't have a clue as to what the Crossfire's final production numbers are going to be, but I'm guessing it's well over 75k by now.
Personally I feel I drive a pretty unique, and rarely seen car. But when you consider GM only built 76,371 Fieros between 1984-88, just how rare is the Crossfire really?
Back in the 80's, Fieros seemed to be everywhere, and yet currently, I seldom see more than one or two Crossfires a day. Does this mean most of the people who own a Crossfire simply don't drive them?