Despite its love affair with trucks and its flirtation with Euro-style subcompacts, the United States is first a nation of family sedans. Of every five new-vehicle buyers, one will drive home in a practical, unpretentious midsize sedan like their parents and grandparents before them. At which point their children will say, “Oh, Dad. Another Toyota Camry?”

Even with all that midsize showroom action, Chrysler seemed to pay lip service to sedans even while fawning over anything that looked like a truck or wore a Wild West badge, like the Dodge Caliber.

Even that defunct compact car looked like a shrunken S.U.V., and it had a name to match. Chrysler’s midsize cupboard also grew bare. Its egregious Sebring sedan and the Sebring’s rental-counter successor, the 200 model of 2011-14, were cars that the post-bankruptcy Chrysler would like to forget.

Now merged with Fiat of Italy, Chrysler has cut back on its S.U.V. navel gazing and rejoined the wider world of cars.