[QUOTE="Peter A. Stavrakoglou"] The older 300s certainly never elicited the "wow" response[/QUOTE] What you're seeing in the "wow" response is people saying "wow - look at that pimp mobile" or "wow - look at that wierd ugly brick of a car" or "wow - look at that Bently that someone chopped down" or "wow - when did Tonka start making cars?" It's much the same way that people say "wow" when they see the Oscar Mier Weiner mobile. On the other hand, the 300N concept car (LH-based RWD model shown on the year 2000 car show circuit) was a real class act. People said oooohh, not just wow. It would have been ready for production for the 2003 model year, and it was much needed at the time given the poor sales that Chrysler was seeing at the time. But instead a RWD-based LH line of cars was scrapped by Daimler and the rolling abortion that is the LX platform was started, and it delayed by a year (or more) the introduction of new cars by DCX.