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The Chrysler Crossfire is a rear-wheel drive, two-seat sports car, marketed by Chrysler and manufactured by Karmann of Germany for the 2004 through 2008 model years. Developed during the period when Chrysler and Mercedes Benz had merged, known as Daimler Chrysler , the two-seater uses the Mercedes-Benz R170 platform and shares 80% of its ...
It was supposed to be a fun two-seat leisure car, but was heavily criticized for its sparse interior space, small trunk, poor performance, bad road handling, lack of driving fun, and controversial styling. It was also priced higher than the Sidekick, which featured four seats, more interior room, and a bigger trunk.
Rootes Arrow was the manufacturer's name for a range of cars produced under several badge-engineered marques by the Rootes Group (later Chrysler Europe) from 1966 to 1979 in Europe, and continuing on until 2005 in Iran.
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TC by Maserati interior. Lee Iacocca started a friendship with Alejandro de Tomaso while at Ford, which led to the De Tomaso Pantera, which had flopped because of safety concerns and limited interest from buyers. [1] During the 1980s, Iacocca headed Chrysler while De Tomaso was the owner of the historic Maserati brand.
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The Chrysler R platform was introduced for the 1979 model year. The first example of downsizing of the full-size Chrysler sedan line, the R-body is an evolution of the B-body intermediate chassis. Competing against the downsized General Motors B-body chassis and the all-new Ford Panther chassis, the R-body is the longest-wheelbase of the three.
In 1961, Chrysler scored a coup by hiring Engel away from Ford, where he had designed the 1961 Lincoln Continental. Engel's design themes at Chrysler were a major departure from the fins of Virgil Exner, and instead featured a more familiar three-box design, but with more extreme rectilinear styling. And, at first glance, the total re-styling ...