I almost posted this in psrivats 's post "Windshield angles in CJ5 CJ7 vs YJ TJ vs JK JL" but I'm posting it here because it's about almost every vehicle out there and I don't want to change the subject over there.
The whole purpose of any of today's windshields is to save .0001 gallons of gas while driving any vehicle anywhere. OK, I'll admit that I just made that number up but regardless of the exact number, I'm not wrong. I hate every aspect of it in every vehicle. I'm 6' 1" and there are so may vehicles where the top of the windshield is so low I have to duck down to see some traffic lights. It's not limited to Chryslers but here are several of them. My wife had a PT Cruiser that I could wear a 10 gallon hat in with no problems but sometimes I had to crouch down just to see more than 50 feet ahead of me while going up a slight upgrade. The Dodge Dakota had such a low roof and windshield it kept me looking at the full size RAMs. I was somewhat surprised that even though my Rumble Bee roof and windshield looked like a large version of the Dakota. Luckily, they are fairly high and I have plenty of room to see out and wear a hat. But even with that, I just realized that the engine in under the windshield which makes much of it hard to get to if/when needed.
Also, most windshields are now stretched more than 3 feet from the hood to the roof and hover over a similar sized dashboard, not only allowing the sun to easily shine on that dashboard but then reflect that bright sunshine from the dashboard to the driver, which doesn't help someone see through it. I don't remember ever seeing that reflection before the late 1990s.
The whole purpose of any of today's windshields is to save .0001 gallons of gas while driving any vehicle anywhere. OK, I'll admit that I just made that number up but regardless of the exact number, I'm not wrong. I hate every aspect of it in every vehicle. I'm 6' 1" and there are so may vehicles where the top of the windshield is so low I have to duck down to see some traffic lights. It's not limited to Chryslers but here are several of them. My wife had a PT Cruiser that I could wear a 10 gallon hat in with no problems but sometimes I had to crouch down just to see more than 50 feet ahead of me while going up a slight upgrade. The Dodge Dakota had such a low roof and windshield it kept me looking at the full size RAMs. I was somewhat surprised that even though my Rumble Bee roof and windshield looked like a large version of the Dakota. Luckily, they are fairly high and I have plenty of room to see out and wear a hat. But even with that, I just realized that the engine in under the windshield which makes much of it hard to get to if/when needed.
Also, most windshields are now stretched more than 3 feet from the hood to the roof and hover over a similar sized dashboard, not only allowing the sun to easily shine on that dashboard but then reflect that bright sunshine from the dashboard to the driver, which doesn't help someone see through it. I don't remember ever seeing that reflection before the late 1990s.
