Basically every review says that the Sebring is terrible, and many sound incredibly biased, for example: "A friend of mine goes numb with boredom whenever I discuss cars. She simply doesn’t care (and therefore drives a Saturn). After four seconds seated in the Sebring’s passenger seat she pronounced: “This feels like a rental car.”
I very much doubt that happened. I drive an 08 sebring and while some of the plastic is hard, I love my car. Who else enjoys driving a Chrysler Sebring?

 

I love driving my convertible down by the lake on a warm summer evening with the top down. I have had a great time driving up and down Woodward during the Dream Cruise. It's great fun looking at all those old classic cars from the 50's and 60's, but I wouldn't trade my Sebring in for hardly any of them.

 

I was commuting between Phoenix and El Paso every 2 weeks, with occasional trips to San Diego and Las Vegas, in my '92 Eagle Vision (300K+ miles, loved that car) when it finally died...well, right about that time the '07 Sebrings came out and I saw that Marathon Blue color, and I was hooked. I had to have a Touring with the 18" wheels, sunroof (b/c you can't raise/lower a convertible top at 75 MPH), Boston Acoustics stereo, and the 2.7L Flex-Fuel V6 (just in case Ethanol became worth buying). LOTS of people were pimping their 300s, but NO ONE in my neck of the woods had a Sebring and it turned heads wherever it went for the first few months -- never had anyone say it was ugly.

One fateful day I decided to go through an automatic car wash at a gas station in Chandler and the car wash scratched my driver's door handle badly. After I argued with the store manager, I got an idea -- pimp the Sebring (but make it still look factory)! After installing some chrome door handles, chrome pillar post trim, chrome trim for the rooflines, a chrome rear bumper piece, and a cherry wood dash/door kit for the interior, NOW I feel like I'm driving a luxury car for a fraction of the cost.

I have only one minor gripe, and that was with the Boston Acoustics sound system. The factory amp is plenty powerful for most people, but the front door 6x9s and the rear shelf 6x9s don't have any crossovers to keep them from rattling when they try to reproduce low bass frequencies. The car is well insulated, but there wasn't enough bass for me and the high-volume rattling drove me nuts. So...I yanked the factory CD player w/SIRIUS and added a MyGIG REN radio to get the DVD player without losing my UConnect or the satellite radio. I swapped out the Boston Acoustics speakers for Soundstream Tarantulas. I kept the factory Boston amp to drive the 3.5" speakers in the dash, but I also added a Soundstream amp driving the front door 6x9s (high-pass at 75 Hz - no more rattles), the rear shelf 6x9s (only there for rear fill, also high-pass at 75 Hz) and a couple of Soundstream 10" subs in the trunk. 85K miles already and the car runs and sounds like a champ. I couldn't be happier.

 

I have liked my 97 LXI even before it was mine... it belonged to a friend.
Since I got it, it has had its share of 'age-related' problems, (118-ish-Kmi) including a current 'gotta-get-a-tranny' problem, but even with that hanging over my head, I would likely have to have someone total it before I'd say 'no more'.
It has simply been too good.

And, once the trans is 'fixed', it is gonna get a new paint of original 'polo-green pearl'...

The ONLY truly bad thing about this car... the paint was SH** from day one.
Oh well... cant have everything!