Chrysler now offering a lifetime warranty?

[thewayne]

Apparently. For original owner only, and the vehicle must be inspected by a dealer every five years. And, natch, certain models are excuded.

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/07/chrysler-extend.html

Comments

[silveradept]

How much more would this cost Chrysler to implement, one, and two, will they actually be around long enough for someone to call them on it?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That's the big question -- how long will Chrysler exist in the current form, and if sucked up by someone else, will they honor this lifetime stuff?

Personally, it's still not enough for me to buy an American car. My next wheels will almost definitely be a Subaru, though I've been quite happy with my Matrix. 45,000 miles in 18ish months and it's never been worked on (excluding the rock eating my transmission back in December).

[silveradept]

I don't know if Chrysler will make it out alive. If they get bought by someone else, I'm guessing they're not interested in those kinds of warranties. Maybe by offering this, Chrysler nailed the last hammer in its own coffin?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Chrysler has some good products, their Dakotas are considered a superior truck from that I've heard. They're certainly one of the most innovative in terms of coming out with more visually appealing makers compared to Ford and GM. I think the latter two have become a bit more radical because of the cool designs Chrysler have been coming out.

[silveradept]

That's possible - although the newer brands of cars seem to be less sleek and more boxy, in my opinion. So if they were going for cool, they kind of bombed out, in my opinion. Maybe that's because I've been seeing plenty of "sensible" cars rather than the ones they really want to look sexy.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

It's so sad that you see these amazing concept cars in the auto shows, and that's the only place that you see them.

[silveradept]

You would think that the "concept" part of the car says "We're actually thinking about building something like this." rather than "look at something cool that we'll never build, but we want to make you think we will." How long as that been the case, I wonder?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

LOL! It's been going on for FAR too long! The original Batmobile for the tv series was a concept car. The first movie Batmobile was built on a '73 Chevy Impala chassis, which happened to be my very first car. They found the cockpit at a wrecking yard: it was from a scrapped or crashed Harrier jump jet!

[silveradept]

Fantastic. So we could all be zipping around in cool cars that could get fantastic gas mileage, and instead, we get boring boxes that suck gas. Someone slap the carmakers upside the head and get their priorities straight, please.