A streamlined Chrysler Intrepid sedan, seen in the summer of 2015 in Beijing, capital of China. The good Chrysler was is a great shape, painted in silver with tinted windows and fitted with sporty five-spoke alloy wheels. The Chrysler Intrepid was only sold in Canada. Elsewhere, it was known as the Dodge Intrepid.
The first generation Dodge/Chrysler Intrepid was a full-sized sedan produced from 1992 until 2004. It was based on Chrysler’s LH platform, which also underpinned other great cars like the Chrysler Concorde, Chrysler 300M, Chrysler New Yorker, and the Eagle Vision. In the United States and elsewhere where it was sold it was marketed as the Dodge Intrepid. Only on the Canadian car market it was sold under the Chrysler brand.
Neither the Dodge nor the Chrysler Intrepid was sold in China, and this gray example was the first one I’d ever seen in country. It may have reached Chinese shores via a Canadian company or via the Canadian embassy.
Note the ‘Carter’ sticker on the left side. Carter was a big Canadian Chrysler dealer in Burnaby, BC. In 2019 they stopped the Chrysler business, changing to GM stuff instead. But it is great to know that at least one Intrepid they sold ended up in China!
The interior was in great shape. Color scheme a bit dark for my taste; black leather seats and a dashboard with black and dark gray plastics. White dials ship in a sort of sportiness. Note the car perfume bottle in the cup-holder space. This old Chrysler will smell just fine.
Beautiful designed boot lid with a red bar connecting the taillights. Antenna reaching for the skies! The Chrysler Intrepid was available with three engines: a 200hp 2.7 liter V6, a 225hp 3.2 liter V6, and a 242hp 3.5 liter V6, sending power to the front wheels via a four-speed automatic transmission.
Note the wind deflectors on the side windows. Chrysler called the design of this generation of sedans ‘cab forward’, referring to the forward-placement of the windshield, which, combined with the front wheel drive, gave, in theory, a lot of extra space to the vehicle’s occupants. Well, I once drove in a Chrysler Concorde, and I can concur that there was indeed a lot of space inside. But wasn’t it just a large car to begin with..?