Say we all make it through 2012 safe and sound and its coming up on the 2013 Detroit Motor Show and there is the pre-production version of the 2014 Chrysler Crossfire at the show. What would it look like? What engines would be available and from who? Alfa Romeo/Fiat? Mercedes again? Another party? Transmissions? Automated manual like Ferrari? Automatic? Real Manual 6 speed? Or should Chrysler bring it back at all? Would it ruin the value and coolness of the cars we all own?

Tell what you think,
I know we all have had this idea in the back of our mind for some time now...


-Colby H

 

There can only ever be one Crossfire, anything else would be a Crossfire in name only.

Mommy and Daddy got divorced and the breakup was not pretty. Mommy desperately threw herself into the arms of an Italian gigolo and Dads doing fine on his own.

 

Put the new srt8 engine in it and keep it about 1000lbs lighter than the current srt8s. Man it would fly.

 

This actually made me bust out laughing.....and im at work! I dont think the value could be much worse than it already is. These things are selling for pennies on the dollar.

 

It's an old thread, but the "Creator" had a few ideas on the subject.

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...e-2-0-a-5.html

 

......when HELL freezes over.

 

By value, I didn't mean dollar amount.

 

Maybe it would have looked like this...Lol

 

The only way it comes back is under Mercedes control. Be interesting. gary

 

Well worded! LMAO! Great offspring though!

 

The new Crossfire would be a Fiat 500 with a 1 liter turbo motor and a big spoiler maybe like the old Plymouth super bird.Some 20" rims ,and neon lights underneath would be righteous.

 

It would look like that Abarth Fiat in the Super Bowl commercial. I, for one, would buy anything that Italian super model tried to sell me.

 

I second that my friend!

 

I tripple that!

That was one of the first "real" car commercials ive seen in the past 10 year.. No Bla bla about fuel economy or safey or any of that useless stuff. Just a effective commercial that makes you want to get a 500. I know i want one.. but ive always wanted one. lol

 

Sounds like a great idea. Worked for Ford with the Mustang II. Every motorhead I know dreams of it. Oh. Wait. That was a nightmare.

The name does not make the car. The car makes the name.

What would it look like. The only parts on the Crossfire I don't like the looks of are the ones that make it look like a Chrysler.

 

marchionne's trying to sell new abarth 500's. i think it's a great idea. what's good for fiat is good for chrysler. my neighbor just bought a new red 500 and it looks terrific. like the abarth spokeswoman.

 

I bet the 500's easier to get into.

Than a Crossfire of course.

 

They would change the name to "FirePower"

 

I get it, I get it, but on the other hand, I could use a good body licking .....

 

The existing Crossfire is a small(ish) two seater coupe or roadster, front engine, RWD, with either a naturally aspirated or forced induction V6 engine. Most of it was sourced through Mercedes Benz. We all know this, I'm not telling anyone anything new.

But MB is out of the picture now, and Fiat is in. And under the Fiat empire we also find Ferrari (not going to be any mash up there as Ferrari is sacred), Maserati (not quite sacred, but playing to a much more exclusive demographic than the Chrysler brand), Lancia (which already has some mash ups with Chrysler via the 300 and 200 being rebadged as Lancias in Europe) and Alfa Romeo. And here's where it gets fun.......... Alfa Romeo, maker of fantastic little lightweight two seater sports cars for decades. And the 4C concept looks like it's about to become a reality, and it would be the perfect platform for a new Crossfire, updating all the running gear to current thinking.

So what's an Alfa Romeo 4C, you ask?

A small, two seat sports car featuring RWD, a mid engine layout, a curb weight below 2000lbs, and a turbo charged 4 cylinder engine making 230HP but capable of 300HP or more. So the "Limited" gets the 230HP which, in a car that weighs 1,000lbs less than the current Crossfire would yield fantastic performance (think Lotus Exige) and the SRT would get the 300HP version (which would offer stunning performance in such a lightweight car). More on the 4C at the link below.

Alfa Romeo 4C - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Stay with me now.................

+fireamx linked to a old thread where some sketches by the "Creator" were shown, and I've copy/pasted that here:


OK, so take the info offered above on the 4C, and wrap it in bodywork along the lines of those sketches - which already have intakes along the flanks that are perfect for feeding a mid engine layout - and you've got the next Crossfire. And it's all workable - it's a new/current Fiat owned platform, and replicating it under the Chrysler badge would be relatively inexpensive since the bulk of the engineering work is done, and it would amortize the investment over a broader sales spectrum since you'd have the Alfa version in Europe and elsewhere and the Chrysler in North America. The turbo engines fit perfectly into the current thinking of smaller displacement engines using forced induction to meet performance expectations of the buyers and fuel economy demands of the government. BMW, MB, Audi and everyone else is doing it for the same reasons, as is Fiat in other applications.



And that, my friends, is what the next generation Crossfire would be.
Could be.
Should be.


But, sadly, I doubt it ever will be.