As part of our 20th anniversary retrospective, we're showcasing some of our favorite vehicles of the past two decades. You'll be able to vote on your favorite car later. Here's the latest installment.
Winning Car Audio mag's Trifecta event is no easy feat. Justin Efkowitz's just made it look that way with his 2002 Chrysler 300M. When looking at the car's twenty-two-inch rims and air-brushed graphics, its hard to realize that these are mere affectations when compared to its unique use of custom motorization. Only when you start wondering how you get inside the car, do you realize the missing seam between doors and the absent B-pillars. The complex door opening consists of the custom-fused doors moving outward and then swinging upside down to allow entry. The setup was accomplished through the hard work of Tweeter's Mobile Fabrication Team.
Once the doors are open, it's difficult not to notice the fluidity and elegance of the interior design. The contoured, hand-sculpted interior took seven weeks to construct and proves to be one of the most striking elements of the car. The multimedia center includes: a 10-inch Xenarc touch-screen monitor, an Alpine CDA-9855 source unit, an Apple MacMini computer and an iPod dock. An Alpine PXA-H701 Multimedia Manager processor is mounted in the rear of the center console behind a molded acrylic panel and controls all equalization, crossover settings, and time correction functions.
Both the front and rear stage are housed in the vehicle's full-length doors and are made up of a pair of Focal 6 " midbass drivers and a single Beryllium tweeter in each corner. For the low end, two separate sub enclosures were built, the first of which houses a Focal 21 WX Be 8" woofer for a tight bass response. The second enclosure contains a Focal 33 KX 13" sub for a deeper, more powerful sound. All of the meticulous interior work, along with the impressive exterior, makes this car a marvel of modern design.