An Update

Decent review. Glad those are Canadian dollars and not U.S. dollars he mentions as the prices.

Prices? I posted this in "Everything Else," but be sure to see:

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinside ... 181639.htm

Finally a fair review by someone who might have to buy their own gas for a living.

I'm really having trouble with the reported sales figures of these two cars based on personal observations and comments from others on this site about how few Ford Five Hundreds there seem to be out there. There must be a whole whack of Ford Five Hundred owners somewhere in North America, and in other places people must not be buying the Chrysler 300.

I live in a city of 350,000 people. That's about 0.1% of the population of Canada and the USA combined. If there are 50,000 Chrysler 300s in Canada and the USA and they are evenly distributed across the 2 countries there would be about 50 of them in this town. Some days I see 2 or 3 Chrysler 300s, some days I see none; but if I were to estimate the average number of Chrysler 300s I've seen over the past 8 months it would be close to 1 a day or 100 to 200 at least (this includes repeat sightings off the same car, some out of town owners, etc.).

If you do the same math, there should be about 30 Ford Five Hundreds in this town. Over the same timeframe I have seen exactly 2 other Ford Five Hundreds (one of them, a dealer's demonstrator, I saw twice).

How can this be?