2022 New York Auto Show Week: Chrysler Goes With the (Air)Flow

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Another day, another teaser. Thankfully, this will all be over by tomorrow’s happy hour.

This time, it’s Chrysler. Which is showing the Airflow Concept.

If you’re scratching your head, thinking you’re experiencing some deja vu, since Chrysler showed the Airflow Concept at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, don’t worry, you aren’t crazy. Nor are you being gaslit. Chrysler did indeed show an Airflow Concept there, but the one slated to be seen in New York tomorrow will look different.

Either way, the concept is supposed to preview an EV that is scheduled to launch in 2025, with Chrysler promising its lineup will be all-electric by 2028.

The teaser shot is above, with the CES car shown below for reference. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

[Images: Chrysler/Stellantis]

Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • Eaststand Eaststand on Apr 13, 2022

    lol thats a Citroen DS7 with a 90s style face

  • Bagelwolf Bagelwolf on Apr 13, 2022

    "...with Chrysler promising its lineup will be all-electric by 2028." "All-electric"... I think they meant "nonexistent".

  • Buickman some stores may have still had some carbon paper on hand?
  • Zerofoo I would rather that car companies put the correct engine in the car to start. The "base" engine is almost always there for rental car fodder. Simplifying drivetrains would go a long way to reducing costs. If you want a smaller engine, buy a smaller car. The trend of putting small highly-stressed engines in big cars sucks. Hybrid drivetrains are even worse - complex, heavy, and certain to cause future high repair bills. All for a few MPG. Finally, to hell with CAFE standards. Just divide the fines among all the units you sell and get some lobbyists to get rid of the standards the Federal Government has no constitutional right to set anyway.
  • Master Baiter But, is the EX30 as glitchy as Joe Biden on a debate stage?
  • Master Baiter We're a long way from the days when, if you had compression, fuel and spark, the car would get you from point A to point B. Now, cue the Captain Obvious NPCs who are going to tell me, "modern cars are much more reliable...blah blah blah..."
  • Jason Eliminating choices anything automotive relating, whether it's engine, trans, interior colors, exterior colors, trim packages is never a good thing. It's all in the name of automobile streamlining production. Choices have been going downhill for decades. The Detroit big three has been doing this by eliminating sedans from small econoboxes to large luxury land yachts. Take Stellantis as an example, since they took over Fiat-Chrysler they have discontinued models right and left without viable model replacements.
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