The life of a Sales Rep must be a very strange one indeed; your life is essentially constantly in a transitory state. It is a life spent on motorways; take-out coffee in beverage holder and unopened Ginster's Pasty on the passenger seat. The handsfree mobile phone kit never stops ringing long enough to get through even one song from the hastily bought CD Power Ballads compilation from the last service station. Uncomfortable surroundings, excessive travel and poor diet mean that your average sales rep (though personable and up-beat on the exterior) is a bitter wreck of anger and bile on the inside. OK, maybe that is a bit too far, but a life on the road isn't going to be pleasurable unless you have the right transportation to move you around. Thus the Saloon was born.

The perennial favourite Saloon in the UK is the Ford Mondeo; a car so popular it has coined the phrase 'Mondeo-man', the term used largely to describe the very typical demographic who drive it. There are other popular options to consider however: The main competition for the Mondeo's crown includes such automotive luminaries as Volkswagen's Passat and Audi's A4. The choice seems solely dependent on whether the Rep in question works for a blue chip company and has a company car (expect to see an Audi of BMW), or is paying the petrol costs themselves (most probably a Mondeo or Honda Accord). There are, however, other manufacturers trying to get in on this lucrative marketplace. One such example is the Chrysler Sebring.

To a majority of British drivers, American cars don't represent a viable solution to a good drive on our roads. A lot of American cars have notoriously heavy handling, which is perfectly fine on long, straight interstates, but around curving and winding country roads that make up a large percentage of the British road network, they are simply not practical. It would be more accurate to say they were the automotive equivalent of a suicide note; you're last few precious seconds spent wrestling violently with the steering wheel trying to navigate your American car away from the fast approaching trees.

Chrysler have taken British criticism seriously. Rather than accuse us of whingeing and being bad drivers, they have specifically engineered a car for Europe. The resulting Sebring is meant to offer a large American option to the modern day executive, without compromising on handling ability, comfort or performance. It is still a big car and frankly, why would you buy an American car if you didn't want it 'supersized'?

And supersized it is...well the boot is anyway. You could most probably transport a whole horse in the rear storage space on the Sebring. Quite why the Chrysler designers considered it necessary to include a boot the size of an aircraft carrier is a little beyond me, but space is always welcome. There are also a selection of impressive-sounding engines, including a fearsome 2.7 Litre V6 which will make mince meat out of your eardrums as well as the tarmac.

It is a little difficult to see how well the Sebring will fit into the British marketplace; we are famous for our understated reserve after all. The Sebring is perhaps a little more ostentatious than the Ford Mondeo and doesn't produce anywhere as good miles per gallon ration as most of its competitors, so it probably won't attract too many fleet orders from companies looking for company cars. If you wish you were travelling down Route 66 in an outsized saloon instead of tootling along the A46 in your Mondeo though, the Chrysler Sebring might be worth a look.

Author: Pete J Ridgard

About the author:
Pete J Ridgard is a writer and a car enthusiast. He currently writes for the automotive industry. Here he discusses the Chrysler Sebring

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