Only three standard models -- Buick, Chrysler, and Mercury -- had slight year-to-year gains in March sales in the county.

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.

Five years previously, AMC had been bought by Chrysler.

Unlike their European counterparts, manual transmissions have disappeared due to lack of demand ; 1995 was the last year for a manual transmission in the Ford Aerostar and Chrysler minivans while GM had previously discontinued the manual transmission in the Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari.

Chrysler had also been developing a minivan based on the Chrysler K platform, releasing the boxy Dodge Caravan / Plymouth Voyager earlier than the Espace, in 1983.

By 2008, most North American minivans had adopted the size and configuration of the long-wheelbase Chrysler vans, with Chrysler dropping their shorter models as well.

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.

Chrysler had bored their 413 to create the “ Max Wedge ” 426, but it still could not compete with the Fords.

Then, in 1964 the new Chrysler 426 Hemi engine so dominated the series in a Plymouth Belvedere " Sport Fury ", the homologation rules were changed so that 1, 000 of any engine and car had to be sold to the public to qualify as a stock part, instead of just 500.

In 1966 Chrysler sold enough of the 426 Hemis to make it available again, and they put it in their new Dodge Charger which had a low-drag rear window that was radically sloped.

Both General Motors and Chrysler had factories in metropolitan Toledo, and automobile manufacturing has been important at least since Kirk began operations early in the 20th century.

Subsequently, Chrysler and Hyundai considered a joint venture that would have Chrysler rebranding the Sonata manufactured at Bromont – only to later announce the deal had failed.

The diluting of the Chrysler name did not go well in Canada, especially as the nameplate had been pushed as a luxury line since the 1930s.

Chrysler had suffered a series of setbacks in recent years, culminating in DaimlerChrysler's agreement to sell the unit to Cerberus Capital Management in May 2007 for US $ 6 billion.

DaimlerChrysler had reportedly approached other carmakers and investment groups to sell Chrysler in early 2007.

Despite the fact it had been nearly four years after the Daimler / Chrysler split, the fourth-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee shares a platform with the Mercedes-Benz M-Class.

By 1929, when Chrysler expanded with a new plant there, Oakland had become known as the " Detroit of the West.

These cars had curvaceous bodies, with headlights behind sloping grille bars, evidently inspired by the Chrysler Airflow.

The 1950 Crosley Hot Shot is often given credit for the first U. S. production disc brakes but the Chrysler Crown Imperial actually had them first as standard equipment at the beginning of the 1949 model year.

Chrysler had been an auto enthusiast for over 5 years by then, and was very interested.

Chrysler, who had resigned from many railroading jobs over the years, made his final resignation from railroading to become works manager ( in charge of production ) at Buick in Flint, Michigan.

Chrysler had started at Buick in 1911 for US $ 6, 000 a year, and left one of the richest men in America.

To fit better in the Chrysler Corporation lineup, alongside low-priced Plymouth and medium-priced DeSoto, Dodge ’ s lineup for early 1930 was trimmed down to a core group of two lines and thirteen models ( from three lines and nineteen models just over a year previous ).

Prices started out just above DeSoto but were somewhat less than top-of-the-line Chrysler, in a small-scale recreation of General Motors ’ “ step-up ” marketing concept.

However, Chrysler executives decided to pull the plug on the Eagle brand just a few months later.

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.

In 1981 Peugeot Talbot, formerly Chrysler and before that Rootes, announced that its Linwood factory just outside of Paisley would cease production.

Alfred P. Sloan and Harley Earl of General Motors, and Walter P. Chrysler capitalized on advertising the automobile ’ s role in the life of the consumer for more than just the utilitarian value compared with the horse.

The car, simply called the " Chrysler ES ", was based on the Dodge Shadow ES and was virtually the same car, just without any " Shadow "- badges.

Chrysler also introduced the Dodge brand in Mexico as Chrysler replaced the Dynasty in Mexico with the Intrepid as well, just like in Canada.

The Chrysler Dynasty was meant to fill a void between the Chrysler LeBaron sedan and the Chrysler New Yorker, just like what the LeBaron GTS did in Canadda.

The Imperial name had been used since 1926, but was never a separate make, just the top-of-the-line Chrysler.

Justifying the price differential over the full-size Chrysler had become increasingly hard to do as the cars became more and more similar over the years to save costs, and in turn the costs of maintaining and marketing a separate, poorly selling marque were possibly just too high.

The VK Chargers were not called Chrysler Valiant Chargers any longer ; the ' Valiant ' was dropped to just leave Chrysler Charger.

The 2006 model Chrysler Voyager fared little better, achieving just 19 % in the frontal impact test, with an overall score of 2 stars out of a possible 5.

In the mid-1960s when the framework was established for US vehicle safety regulations, the US auto market was an oligopoly, with just three companies ( GM, Ford, and Chrysler ) controlling 85 % of the market.

Former Chrysler Chairman and CEO Lee Iacocca, who helped steer the company back to profitability after needing a bailout from the U. S. Government in 1979 just to survive, says he should have picked Lutz as his successor rather than Bob Eaton upon Iacocca's retirement at the end of 1992, but at the time Iacocca and Lutz were not getting along.

After a remarkably short development period of just 19 months, the Chrysler Sunbeam was launched on the July 23, 1977, to a quite positive reception of the British automotive press.

Production of radios for the retail trade grew quickly in the 1950s, but stopped just as quickly in the 1960s when Ford, GM and Chrysler started producing their own radios.

Although the Scarab garnered acres of press coverage, at $ 5, 000 ( equivalent to $ 80, 000 in 2010, when a luxurious and ultra-modern Chrysler Imperial Airflow cost just $ 1, 345 ), very few would pay this hefty premium for innovation, and total production of the Scarab amounted to no more than nine units.

Some include: Crayola LLC, Just Born, Chrysler First Financial Services, Stanley / Vidmar, Bethlehem Steel, Hill Financial Savings, Muhlenberg College, Air Products & Chemicals, WDIY 88. 1 FM, the Diocese of Allentown, Keystone Nazareth Bank and Trust, UGI Utilities and Capital Blue Cross / Blue Shield -- just to name a few.