Chrysler Concord

Chrysler Concord

The Chrysler Concorde still cuts a nice profile, impressive given this design is in its fifth year. Most cars, particularly those with more daring designs, tend to look dated after a few years. This isnt one of them. The bold grille and fluid lines still look terrific.

Chrysler Concord

Yet the sleek design does not prevent the Concorde from being a practical car with a comfortable, roomy interior, and beautiful detail and appointments. Backing up beauty and comfort are strong acceleration performance, a controlled, luxurious ride, and sport-sedan handling.

Chrysler Concord

That description sounds like a car costing $40,000 or more. Yet the Concorde starts at just $24,825. Surely, the Chrysler Concorde represents one of the greatest values in the full-size sedan class. While not the best in class by every measure, it is very good by most measures. It is a lot of car for the money.

Chrysler Concord

The Concorde continues essentially unchanged for 2003, aside from some new exterior colors. An optional six-disc CD changer replaces the four-disc unit offered previously.

Chrysler Concord

The Chrysler Concord comes with a handsome interior with sumptuous leather seats. Interior surfaces are soft to the touch and feel luxurious. The quality of the materials is high, though weve seen better wood trim. Colors match well, and gaps are minimized. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the space where the doors and dashboard come together (a yawning chasm on pre-1998 models.) The seats have relatively low side bolsters, making it easy to slide into place. Big doors open wide, too, although getting in and out is somewhat complicated by the steeply raked windshield.

The flowing shapes that grace the exterior are carried through inside. Concordes interior design is spacious and creative. The cab-forward concept maximizes passenger space. This is a roomy car. The Concorde comes standard with an eight-way, power-adjustable drivers bucket seat with a manually adjustable lumbar support. (A front bench seat is available as a $150 option on the LX only; it increases seating capacity to six, while moving the gear selector from the console to the steering column.) The standard bucket seats provide good back and lateral support, and the detailing of the fabric is world class.