The art deco spire of the Chrysler Building in New York City, built 1928 – 1930

The term " hoosier " began to take on its negative connotation in St. Louis during the mid-1950s when the Chrysler Corporation built a large automobile assembly plant in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton and closed a plant it had been operating in Indiana.

Following Chrysler's takeover of the British Rootes Group, Simca of France, and Barreiros of Spain, and the resultant establishment of Chrysler Europe in the late 1960s, the Dodge brand was used on light commercial vehicles, most of which were previously branded Commer or Karrier, on pickup and van versions of the Simca 1100, on the Spanish Dodge Dart, and on heavy trucks built in Spain.

Chrysler built fifty Chrysler Turbine Cars in 1963 and conducted the only consumer trial of gas turbine-powered cars.

American Motors had phased out domestic built passenger cars after 1983 and their dealer sales and service expertise was focused on the higher margin 4WD vehicles. Thus Eagle became retracted from the market with only one model going to Chrysler.

The XJ Cherokee itself was built by Chrysler until the end of the 2001 model year in the U. S. and until 2005 in China.

Three other designs continued to be used after the Chrysler buyout: the Grand Wagoneer full-size luxury SUV, the full-sized J-series pickups, built on the same chassis as the earlier SJ model Wagoneers and Cherokees that dated from 1963 with the AMC V8, and the Jeep Comanche ( MJ ) compact pickup, which debuted in 1986.

The planned all-new 1988 Renault Premier, a joint development effort between American Motors and Renault, and for which the Brampton Assembly plant ( Brampton, Ontario ) was built, was sold by Chrysler as the 1988 – 1992 Eagle Premier, with a rebadged Dodge Monaco variant available from 1990 – 1992.

All 2000 Voyagers built in December 1999 and beyond are badged as Chrysler Voyagers.

Plymouth built various trucks and vans over the years, mainly re-badged Dodge or Chrysler vehicles.

A single prototype of a T26 turret mounted on an M4A3 chassis was built by Chrysler in the summer of 1944, but did not progress into production.

The Plymouth Road Runner was a muscle car built by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation in the United States between 1968 and 1980.

Chrysler memos of September 1969 show that the Sales Programming staff was preparing to handle 1, 920 winged Plymouths for 1970, but published figures say as many as 2, 783 were built.

Chrysler introduced a seat management system marketed as Swivel ' n Go seating, the MyGIG entertainment system ( a stereo with built in hard drive for recording, storing, and playing music ), second and third row video screens, powered second row windows, standard side curtain airbags, and dashboard-mounted transmission controls.

The Chrysler 300 " letter series " were high-performance luxury cars built in very limited numbers by the Chrysler Corporation in the U. S. from 1955-1965.

It was built by Chrysler and featured eight H-1 engines built by Rocketdyne.

It was available with a Chrysler built and designed 2. 2 L carbureted straight-4 engine with and a curb weight of around.

* Dodge Kingsway, an automobile model built by the Chrysler Corporation between 1935 and 1959

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

Chrysler Canada has three manufacturing plants in operation in Canada, and built 535, 878 cars and trucks in 2002.

Plodge, a portmanteau of the names Plymouth and Dodge, is a name informally used to refer to vehicles Chrysler Canada built with a mix of U. S. Plymouth and Dodge parts for the Canadian and export markets.

* March 2 – American Motors Corporation is acquired by the Chrysler Corporation

* April 2 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1940 )

The de-merged Daimler AG received US $ 1. 35 billion directly from Cerberus but directly invested US $ 2 billion in Chrysler itself.

Walter Percy Chrysler ( April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940 ) was an American automotive industry executive and founder of the Chrysler Corporation.

Its replacement, the 407, was powered by a 5. 2 litre V8 provided by Chrysler of Canada.

In 1969, the Bristol 411 appeared, with a new 6. 2 litre Chrysler V8 ( still rebuilt and modified by Bristol, as before ) granting higher top speed and better acceleration still.

The base 2. 2L was borrowed from the Chrysler K-cars, and produced horsepower.

The higher performance fuel-injected version of the 2. 2L engine later offered in the Chrysler K-cars was never offered in the Caravan, and the 2-bbl version would remain the base powerplant until mid-1987.

Although the SWB model, which had accounted for half of all sales in Canada, cost approximately $ 2, 000 less and offered a four-cylinder engine option with improved fuel economy, Chrysler executives stated the SWB Caravan was discontinued to accommodate new features offered in the Grand Caravan, consistent with the demands of the majority of the minivan market.

The B-12 had a flathead in line six cylinder engine from Chrysler industrial, and 2, 817 units were produced until 1951.

Some early GMs equipped with HYDRA-MATIC transmissions used ( S ) to indicate Second gear, being the same as the 2 position on a Chrysler, shifting between only first and second gears.

( L ) was used in some early GMs to indicate ( L ) ow gear, being the same as the 2 position on a Chrysler, locking the transmission into first gear.

Other hatchbacks which conformed to the new hatchback format included the 1978 Chrysler / Talbot Sunbeam Ti with and brisker acceleration than the Golf and followed a year later by the 2. 2 litre Talbot Lotus Sunbeam offered a then astonishing and a 0-60 mph time of around 6. 8 seconds ,, Peugeot 104 ZS and Simca 1100 TI ( 1974 ).

Chrysler first offered a 2. 2 turbo in the Daytona and Laser in 1984 and also offered it in the Lancer / Lebaron GTS and Shadow / Sundance hatchbacks.

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 ).

The base engine was a transverse mounted Chrysler designed 2. 2 L ( 135 cid ) in-line four-cylinder with an electronic 2 barrel carburetor ( later replaced by a fuel injection system in 1986 ), rated at.

The 541 was replaced by another Neale design, the CV8 in 1962, which replaced the Austin-sourced straight-6 of the previous cars with a 6 litre American Chrysler V8.

Its president is Otis M. Waters, partner in the law firm of Timen & Waters, 540-K Chrysler Bldg., New York City.

* 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

* 1930 – The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens.

* Chrysler New Yorker, a car

* Chrysler Building in New York

On June 10, 2009, Italian automaker Fiat formed a partnership with Chrysler in which a " New Chrysler " was formed and was given the name Chrysler Group LLC, which Dodge remains a part of.

When the 88 was retired in 1999 ( with a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition ), its length of service was the longest model name used on American cars after the Chrysler New Yorker.

The street has held a special place in New Yorkers ' imaginations since at least the turn of the 20th century, and is the site of some of New York's best known buildings, including ( east to west ) the United Nations, Chrysler Building, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Chrysler, who was closely tied to the bankers, submitted his resignation to Durant, then based in New York City.

The same year he financed the construction of the Chrysler Building in New York City, which was completed in 1930.

In 1923, Chrysler purchased a twelve-acre waterfront estate at Kings Point on Long Island, New York from Henri Willis Bendel and renamed it " Forker House.

The largest of these is the New Castle Fieldhouse at Chrysler High School.

* New Castle is home to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame located near New Castle Chrysler High School.

* Next to New Castle Chrysler High School is a Native American mound dated to approximately 2000 BP.

Italian Americans have served as CEO ’ s of numerous major corporations, such as the Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation by Lee Iacocca, IBM Corporation by Samuel Palmisano, Lucent Technologies by Patricia Russo, The New York Stock Exchange by Richard Grasso and Honeywell Incorporated by Michael Bonsignore.

After some re-engineering and a re-designation to Chrysler code LH, the Eagle Premier went on to form the backbone of Chrysler's passenger car lineup during the 1990s as the Chrysler Concorde ( a revived model name that was briefly used by Plymouth in 1951 and 1952 ), Chrysler New Yorker, Chrysler LHS, Dodge Intrepid, and Eagle Vision.

The Amazon sedan's ponton genre, three-box styling was inspired by American cars of the early 1950s, strongly resembling the Chrysler New Yorker sedan and the Chrysler 300C hardtop Coupe.