The Crossfire combines American design with German engineering. Look underneath and you'll find a lot of Mercedes parts, including the V6 engine, multilink suspension, and steering.
So is the Chrysler Crossfire just a re-badged Mercedes?
Crossfire is the first vehicle to benefit from the synthesis between merging Chrysler and Mercedes. Crossfire is plenty Mercedes SLK underneath, borrowing the small car's platform from the rear bulkhead forward (the rear was redesigned to accommodate the center-mounted exhaust). But Chrysler engineers developed a Porsche-stiff chassis and tuned the Mercedes suspension to better handle the larger wheels and tires.