Perhaps Chrysler should have dusted off the Polara name for this concept, since it polarized our staff. Half of us loved this Rolls-Royce knockoff, the other half despised it. Designed to slot in above the Chrysler 300 as a flagship luxury sedan, if produced the Imperial Concept would get a 340-horsepower, 5.7-liter Hemi motor and a stretched wheelbase to create the ultimate luxury bargain. Aft of the front end, the Imperial strongly recalls the Rolls-Royce Phantom, while up front designers intended to transfer classic Virgil Exner styling cues from the early 1960s Imperials, including horizontal grillework and round “floating” headlights.
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