Jun
03
There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. Detroit has traditionally dangled tantalizing show cars in front of the public, only to deliver watered-down versions to showrooms. But Chrysler, in its renaissance of the ‘90s, rewrote the rulebook, delivering some production cars almost unchanged from the prototypes, including the Prowler and the Viper. The Chrysler Crossfire—first shown at the Detroit auto show in 2001—is as faithful a translation from concept to production as any in recent memory. The design concept was the work of 25- year-old Eric Stoddard, a wunderkind who has since been hired away by Hyundai. Read more…
