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Wed 07 Jul 2006Chrysler 300CIt's more eyecatching than a Playboy model and more muscular than the body builders on LA's Venice beach. It has the hip-hop crowd in its thrall, features in more music videos than Madonna, and is currently wooing executive car buyers away from the seemingly hypnotic addiction they have to German models.At a time when the US car industry lumbers under massive financial burdens and struggles to fend off the invasion of foreign marques in its home market, the 300C is the late-arriving action hero, sent forth to save the US car industry.