When these guys did our presentations it was said that the Crossfire just never got the proper marketing and advertising when it was first released to the market and Chrysler did very little to educate their technicians at the dealerships to make them fully understand the specific product the Crossfire was since it was the Mercedes drive train.
It was also said that the public was never very aggressive in wanting to spend $35.000 on a 2 seat Chrysler product again not being marketed as a unique car based on the Mercedes drive train.
It was an unfortunate time for Chrysler but brought on by themselves in all reality

 

Figured just that. I remember when they came out - the fact that it was a Mercedes was hardly mentioned. Also, never understood why the fact that the SRT6 had a hand built AMG under the hood, was never mentioned. Actually quite the opposite....why remove the engine badge altogether and leave an empty square behind instead of the nice Afalterback badge with the engineer's signature on it? At the very least, come up with a replacement and don't just leave it blank as if something was there but had been removed LOL.

Sad that Mercedes was so weak in marketing these. Really thought they would have the market cornered better.

 

Mercedes didn't want to have anything to do with them.

 

Interesting thread. I ordered my roadster sometime in January 2005 and picked it up on 5/7/2005. Looked great then and still does now.

SRT6 was purchased used in Chicago in winter 2008 with only 8500 miles.

 

Scroll back to post 1 and read the posts in this thread - It is one of the first threads created here back in 2003
I explained in post 18 how this forum was started 21 years ago back in 2003

 

Are you still in contact and do you know what he is driving now? So many early owners said they would keep them forever but of course didn't. I still have mine I bought in 2006.

 

He posted this in February this year - Not sure he has them all now - He is still a friend on Facebook

 

Wow, quite a stable.