Despite the arrival of serious competitors — namely, the Ford Falcon, Chrysler Valiant, and Japanese cars — in the 1960s, Holden's locally produced large six-and eight-cylinder cars remained Australia's top-selling vehicles.

The Arthur G. Coons Administration Building has been dubbed " the Chrysler Showroom " by campus wags — a reference to its boxy glass lobby.

In 2007 it reached 3, 961, 629 worldwide vehicle sales — surpassing Fiat, Chrysler, PSA / Peugeot, Nissan, and Honda.

* Rieman, Timothy D. & Buck, Susan L. The Art of Craftsmanship: The Mount Lebanon Collection, Art Services International, and Chrysler Museum ( Paperback — Feb 1995 ).

They released the liftback Dodge Daytona / Chrysler Laser in 1984, and then the Dodge Shadow / Plymouth Sundance — as well as the LeBaron GTS and Dodge Lancer hatchbacks.

* Chrysler ( 1926-30 — Imperial 80, 1929 Imperial L ; 1931-37 — Imperial Series CG, CH, CL, and CW Newports and Thunderbolts ; 1934 — CX ; 1935 — C-3 ; 1936 — C-11 ; 1937-48 — Custom Imperial, Crown Imperial Series C-15, C-20, C-24, C-27, C-33, C-37, C-40 )

Memoirs of Americans including Walter Chrysler and Jack Black speak of what it was like growing up in Western towns where most people had guns and open carry was common ( such as in Kansas and Missouri, which were considered " out West " at the time — now considered the Old West ).

The crisis was prefigured by the near-bankruptcy of Chrysler in 1979 — it was rescued by government loans — and the actual bankruptcy of Delphi ( formerly part of GM ) in 2005.

*** The Chrysler 300 ( 1962 – 1971 ) — a completely separate model from the letter series

*** The 1979 Chrysler 300 — a limited-edition model built on the Chrysler Cordoba platform and also with a concept similar to the letter series

In " Iacocca — an Autobiography ", former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca was disparaging of the Rootes operation, saying Chrysler should never have bought it.

Ford and Chrysler responded by producing plusher versions of their Ford Torino and Dodge Charger intermediates, but both eventually created new models to enter the battle — the Ford Elite and Mercury Cougar XR-7 in 1974 and Chrysler Cordoba in 1975.

Chrysler offered simulated wood as an option for the Chrysler PT Cruiser, introduced in 2000 — and aftermarket firms offered kits as well.

In 1977, the car was renamed Dodge Polara ( a nameplate Chrysler previously used on full-sized Dodge models in the U. S .), and underwent a comprehensive facelift, gaining the Chrysler Avenger's front styling, and dashboard setup — the revised bumpers and taillight treatments remaining unique to Brazil.

Importing American engines just to ship them back across the Atlantic proved problematic, so US-bound Allards were soon shipped engineless and fitted out in the States variously with newer overhead valve engines by Cadillac, Chrysler, Buick, and Oldsmobile.

Changes for 1982 included a new hood ornament ( changed from a Dodge badge mounted flat on the hood to an upright Chrysler Pentastar ), roll-down rear door windows vs. the former stationary glass with rear quarter pop-outs, a counterbalanced hood, and black painted valve cover on the 2. 2L engine ( vs. the former blue ).

Changes for 1982 included a revised hood ornament ( changed from a Plymouth logo to a Chrysler Pentastar ), roll-down rear door windows vs. the former stationary glass with rear quarter pop-outs, a counterbalanced hood, a Pentastar trunk medallion, and black painted valve cover on the 2. 2L engine ( vs. the former blue ).

GEMA produces a single family of 4-cylinder engines with variable valve timing, marketed by Chrysler as the World Engine.

Chrysler also produced the world's first production variable valve OHV engine with independent intake and exhaust phasing.

However, by the early 1950s, overhead valve V8s from sister divisions Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile, as well as new overhead valve V8s from Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation, made the " Silver Streak " all but obsolete in power, It was a quiet, smooth running engine that served the needs of the 1930s and ' 40s American consumer adequately for power, if not reliability or economy, but by 1954, the engine was decidedly eclipsed not only by competing auto makers, but by General Motors ' own divisions ' products as well.

When introduced, the block-mounted oil filter check valve was eliminated on the 4. 0 ( along with the 2. 5 ) when Chrysler engineers standardized their oil filters.

Overhead valve engines are used by most car manufacturers but now only GM and Chrysler produce the " push-rod " variant with any great regularity.

Carburetor | Carbureted 2. 5 L engine installed in 1990 Mexican Chrysler Spirit In the Mexican market, 1986 through 1990 vehicles used versions of the 2. 2 and 2. 5 engines operating on leaded gasoline, equipped with a carburetor, a tubular exhaust header, and electronic control of ignition timing.

Daimler had recently come through a painful separation from their former American subsidiary Chrysler and needed a quick injection of cash in order to refocus on automotive production.

The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998 – 2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC, which has an alliance with Fiat.

Dodge-branded Mitsubishi vehicles were phased out by 1993 with the exception of the Dodge Stealth running through 1996, though Mitsubishi-made engines and electrical components were still widely used in American domestic Chrysler products.

Following Chrysler Europe's collapse in 1977, and the sale of their assets to Peugeot, the Chrysler / Dodge British and Spanish factories were quickly passed on to Renault Véhicules Industriels, who gradually re-branded the range of vans and trucks as Renaults through the 1980s.

Starting in 1954 with a modified Plymouth, the American car manufacturer Chrysler demonstrated several prototype gas turbine-powered cars from the early 1950s through the early 1980s.

But because of the expense, the brakes were only standard on the Chrysler Crown Imperial through 1954 and the Town and Country Newport in 1950.

Electroluminescent automotive instrument panel backlighting, with each gauge pointer also an individual light source, entered production on 1960 Chrysler and Imperial passenger cars, and was continued successfully on several Chrysler vehicles through 1967.

The M13 was powered by a 195 horsepower ( 145 kW ) 5. 5L V8 and driven through a push-button automatic transmission of a similar design to the Chrysler TorqueFlite unit.

Records were produced under license by Columbia " Special Products " division and sold exclusively through Chrysler dealers.

It then turns away from the Fisher onto the Chrysler Freeway at a complex interchange with I-375 and an unnumbered extension which connects with M-3, then follows M-1, which is less than a mile away through the remainder of Detroit, connecting eastern Wayne County to Toledo and Flint to the south and north respectively.

Chrysler had an assembly plant in Commerce from 1930 through July 1971 located at 5800 S. Eastern and Slauson.

The gear-reduction starter Chrysler used from the early 1960s through the late 1980s garnered the nickname " Highland Park Hummingbird " after Chrysler's hometown and the starter's distinctive cranking sound.

Variants of this starter design were used on most rear-and four-wheel-drive vehicles produced by Chrysler Corporation from 1962 through 1987.

This starter was used on Ford vehicles from 1973 through 1990, when a gear-reduction unit conceptually similar to the Chrysler unit replaced it.

He was hired in a railroad machine shop ( one of his co-workers was Walter Chrysler ), then he joined the railroad crew building the Union Pacific line through Colorado.

GM eliminated the hardtop wagon from its lineup in 1959, and AMC and Ford exited the field beginning with their 1960 and 1961 vehicles, leaving Chrysler and Dodge with the body style through the 1964 model year.

Thus, without having a separate brand from the now defunct company, Chrysler looked to re-brand the legacy vehicles inherited through the purchase of AMC instead of trying to fold those outside designed products into Chrysler's existing branch structure.

In 1997, the Eagle Vision was discontinued at the end of its design cycle, though the similar Dodge Intrepid and Chrysler Concorde were redesigned for 1998 and continued through 2004.

An engineer by training, Peter was a protégé of John H. Hopkins and has followed closely the works of Michael Peters and Robert Fritz and based his books on pioneering works with the five disciplines in Ford, Chrysler, Shell, AT & T, Hannover Insurance, Harley-Davidson since the 70s and 80s through today.

* LH platform, a type of Chrysler car made from 1993 through 2004: New Yorker, 300M, Concorde, LHS, Intrepid and Vision