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The Chrysler Sebring is a line of Mid-size automobiles sold by the Chrysler Corporation . There have been three entirely different vehicles with this name:
Convertible versions of the first two generations of Sebring are the most popular convertible automobile in the world from 2001 through 2005, with nearly 40,000 produced per year. The soft tops have been engineered and completed by Dura Convertible Systems for the first two generations, though the third generation Sebring will use a Karmann top. 1995 - 2000 The 1995 through 2000 Chrysler Sebring and '''Dodge Avenger''' Coupe s were the successors to the Chrysler LeBaron coupe and Dodge Daytona , respectively. They were built by Diamond Star Motors , a Joint Venture between Chrysler Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors , on a stretched Mitsubishi Galant platform. The name Avenger was originally used on the Hillman Avenger , produced by Rootes Group while that company was owned by Chrysler Corporation ; while the name Sebring was originally used on a model of the Plymouth Satellite . The cars had a 103 in (2.62 m) wheelbase and used either a 2.0 L I4 or a Mitsubishi-designed 2.5 L V6 . The 4-cylinder was coupled to either a five-speed Manual Transmission , shared with the Eclipse and Talon , or a 4-speed automatic. The V6 was only available with the Chrysler type A604 automatic transmission, and cannot be swapped out easily due to a lack of transmissions that can fit around the front axle. The easiest way to swap out the automatic transmission on this car is an entire drivetrain swap. There is evidence that there was a planned All Wheel Drive version of the Sebring, partially due to the fact that there is room for a driveshaft to the rear wheels, and there have been a couple successful 4G63 AWD swaps from the second-generation Eclipse GSX. The Dodge Avenger was discontinued in 2000 . A Dodge Avenger concept vehicle was built three years later. 2001 - The current Chrysler Sebring is actually two different cars. The coupe is the next-generation Diamond Star Motors model (also sold as the '''Dodge Stratus Coupe'''). The sedan and convertible are Chrysler JA Platform successors to the Chrysler Cirrus . The Sebring coupe was discontinued after 2005 . 2007 The Sebring will be replaced with a new model based on the Mitsubishi GS Platform for 2007 . Chrysler will reportedly produce a metal-topped Coupé Convertible model of this model rather than the traditional cloth-top Convertible . The Dodge Avenger will replace the aged Stratus nameplate in 2007. The car is set to debut with the new Sebring, in which it shares its platform, in mid-2006. The Chrysler Sebring, along with the Dodge Stratus , will be build in Russia from late 2007 or early 2008 on, and being sold with a Russian brand. The licence and production facilities for these cars have been sold the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in April 2006, who owns the GAZ company in Nizhniy Novgorod, which builds the legendary Volga automobile. The price is € 124 million / US$ 151 million (approx.). It is planned to build up to 65,000 cars of both models yearly. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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