Cars, trucks, and Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge-Jeep by year
Before Maxwell was called "Chrysler"
Chrysler begins with revolutionary cars
The war years
Postwar: filling the demand for cars
The high-style body-on-frame cars, 1950s-1959
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Chronology: 1950 - 1963
- Dodge cars of 1954: Meadowbrook, Coronet, Royal
- Plymouth 1954-59: making up for lost time
- Chrysler Corporation cars, 1955-56
- Dodge cars of 1955: the Coronet, Royal, and Custom Royal, with the Hemi Red Ram and PowerFlite transmissions.
- Styling and coloring cars in 1955
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Chrysler Corporation, 1957: hot styling, poor quality
- The 1957 Plymouths: suddenly, it's 1960, except in quality
- Chrysler Corporation, 1958: better quality, same styling, poor sales
- Insider's History of Chrysler:
the 1950-1964 period of Chrysler Corporation, including not only
Plymouth but also Dodge, Chrysler, and Imperial. There is a lot of
information in this well-written series, much of it not readily
available anywhere else.
- Jim Benjaminson's book Plymouth 1946-1959 (Reprinted by permission)
- Plymouths of 1949-1952: the Deluxe, Special Deluxe, Cranbrook, Cambridge, and Concord
- Electrojector: world's first electronic-fuel-injection car ... from 1958
- Christine, the reason why non-Mopar folk know the 1958 Plymouth Fury
- Inside Chrysler series: 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959
Unit-body to muscle: the 1960s
Chrysler had several major technological transitions through the years; arguably, the first was the move from body-on-frame to unit-body, and they handled it with startling speed. Instead of switching one model or body size at a time, they moved just about every car at once, only leaving behind models with very small sales. Amazingly, they managed the change almost flawlessly.
- Chronology: 1950 - 1963 • 1964 - 1971
- Dodge cars of 1960: the Dart, Polara, and Matador (in progress)
- Dodge trucks 1960
- Plymouths of 1960: the Belvedere, Fury, Savoy, and Valiant; unit-body; TorqueFlite; SonoRamic engines
- Plymouth 1960-65: powering on
- Inside Chrysler series: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963
- Chrysler Corporation of 1961
- Jeep 1958-61 - Jeep 1965
- Chrysler Corporation of 1962: Fury, Sport Fury, Valiant, restyling, unit-body, and more
- Plymouths of 1963: Chrysler's ill-timed downsizing and other details, including the Fury Super Sport.
- Plymouths of 1964: the Fury, Savoy, Belvedere, Valiant, and Barracuda; the Hemi; Canada; and racing.
- Plymouths of 1965: the Fury, Belvedere, Valiant, and the rest; Canada; racing. Lots of details and photos.
- Dodge cars of 1966: Polara, Monaco, Coronet, Charger, Dart, Sportsman vans
- Plymouths of 1966: the Belvedere, Fury, and Valiant, the Street Hemi, and racing
- Plymouth 1966-69: growing muscle
- Why Chrysler used different side marker lights in 1968, 1969, and 1970
- Chrysler boats - 1966 | 1969
- Chrysler Corporation cars, 1966
- Chrysler Corporation cars, 1967
- 1969 car prices
- Imperial, 1969-1973 (the other Chrysler boats)
- Plymouths of 1967: the Belvedere, Fury, Satellite, GTX, and Valiant
- Plymouths of 1968: the Barracuda, Fury, GTX, Belvedere, and others.
- Dodge Charger - by Burton Bouwkamp, Manager of Dodge Passenger Car Product Planning
- Running amok with a borrowed Hemi Satellite: Rick Ehrenberg tells what it was like to race a Street Hemi when the muscle car was still in its prime
- Boats and Chrysler Marine
The 1970s: downsizing and depowering
- Chronology: 1964 - 1971 • 1972-1980
- Chrysler Corporation 1970
- Plymouth cars, 1970-74: muscle car heaven
- Chrysler cars of 1971: Imperial Lebaron, New Yorker, Town & Country, Newport
- Dodge cars of 1973: Polara, Monaco, Challenger, Charger, and Dart
- Plymouth cars of 1973: the Barracuda, Duster, Valiant, Fury, GTX, Satellite, and Road Runner meet the Colt and Cricket
- Chryslers of 1974 - 1975: New Yorker, Newport, Town & Country
- Jeep for 1975-76
- Plymouths of 1975: the Valiant, Fury, and Road Runner in transitional years.
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1976 (Chrysler Corp, Plymouth, Dodge): a key year or just maintenance?
- Plymouth cars, 1975-83: failure and recovery
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Chrysler Corporation cars of 1977: technology, engines, Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth
- 1977 Dodge trucks
- Chrysler Corporation 1978
- Plymouths of 1978: a bunch of imports and a bunch of stalwarts
Front wheel driven, electronically controlled: the 1980s
- Chronology: 1981-1992
- Chrysler Corporation snapshots: 1981 - 1984 - 1986 - 1988
- Chrysler front-drive performance 1983-1993
- Jeep 1987-89
- Dodge cars of 1983: rebadged Mitsubishis, Daytona, K-cars and EEKs, Omni, Omni Charger, Mirada, Diplomat
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The Trans Four Owner's Group
- Dodge trucks of 1983
- Plymouths, Dodges, and Chryslers of 1986: Mitsubishis, EEKs, Gran Fury, Horizon/Turismo, and Voyager
- Plymouth cars, 1984-2001: growth and loss
The 1990s: from losses to industry-leading profits
Under the thumb of Daimler (1999-2007) and Cerberus (2008-09)
Resurrected as part of Fiat: 2009 and beyond
- 2010: carryover cars and some new Daimler-Cerberus-Fiat launches
- 2011: critics start to praise the new cars
- 2012: the year the turnaround gathered steam, "halftime in America," with car prices
- 2013: more new cars and trucks, more praise, better sales
- 2014: continuing recovery
- 2015: sales continue to rise but delays are starting to show
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