I remember cutting my teeth as a teenager without a driver’s license on internet message boards and then-new comments sections of websites like Motor Trend and Car and Driver. It was the mid-2000s. Chrysler’s first LX-platform cars had gone on sale in the form of the Dodge Magnum and Chrysler 300. Big-bodied with gunslit windows, the Ralph Gilles-designed sedans were striking; ushering in a new era of good-looking cars with not-so-good visibility. Suddenly, it was in vogue for every modern car to have a high beltline with tiny windows.
