Other plans for this model year included three minivan concepts all to be made in the Windsor Assembly, the Dodge Caravan R / T, Voyager XG, and the Chrysler Pacifica.

Chrysler debuted the full Dodge Challenger line for 2009, with four different trims – SE, R / T, SRT8, and the SXT in Canada only.

Chrysler also made a late-year addition to the 2010 model year with the limited edition Mopar ' 10 Challenger R / T.

Australian 1971 Chrysler VH Valiant Charger R / T

Use of a common platform is a common practice for reducing the number of parts and engineering time, and Chrysler, when creating the K platform, was building vehicles from a small number of common platforms ( e. g. F / J / M and R ).

* 1966 Chrysler R / T police special in Canada

However, Chrysler came out with the performance-oriented R / T version in 1998.

This engine was used in 1, 399 Dodge Spirit R / T and several hundred Dodge and Chrysler Daytona IROC R / T models in the US, Canada, and Europe, plus models including the Chrysler Spirit R / T and Phantom R / T in Mexico.

* 1991 – 1994 Chrysler Spirit R / T ( Mexico )

* 1992 – 1994 Chrysler Phantom R / T ( Mexico )

Available engines were the stock 2. 2 liter and 2. 5 liter, naturally aspirated or turbocharged, and for the 1990 model year a 3. 0 liter Mitsubishi V6 became available, although the Mexican Chrysler Phantom R / T DOHC 16V also offered the same 2. 2 liter turbo engine as used in the US market Dodge Spirit R / T.

Chrysler Phantoms were marketed from 1987 to 1994, with an R / T version ( similar to the American LeBaron GTC ) starting in 1992.

In March 1962, Chrysler replaced the American 1961-model R Valiant with the American 1962 S-series ( SV1 ) Valiant.

R. M. " Ham " Schirmer, manager of Dodge car and corporate advertising for Chrysler, said that the Aspen name originated from the codename Aspen-Vail when the project for it and the Plymouth " sister car " began in 1971.

From 2000-2003, the R / T was sold as a Chrysler in Europe.

In Brazil, the Neon was marketed as a luxury mid-size sedan ; for Mexico it was a competitor to the Ford Escort, and sold as a Chrysler with either the 1. 6 or 2. 0 L engine and European-style taillights ( with separate amber indicator lights ), except for the R / T model, which was a Dodge, with U. S .- style taillights.

Beginning in 1967, Chrysler decided that the Hemi should be available only in their badged muscle cars: the Dodge Charger and Coronet R / T and the Plymouth Belvedere GTX.

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.

Shortly after their arrival, the Chrysler minivans competed against the truck-based front-engine, rear drive Chevrolet Astro, GMC Safari ( based on a reworked 1st generation S-10 platform ), and Ford Aerostar ( based on a reworked 1st-generation Ranger platform ).

In 2008, Volkswagen debuted the Routan, a rebadged variant of the Chrysler RT platform minivans.

Later that year, the company launched products that appear to integrate elements from both sides of the company, including the Chrysler Crossfire, which was based on the Mercedes SLK platform and utilized Mercedes's 3. 2L V6, and the Dodge Sprinter / Freightliner Sprinter, a re-badged Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van.

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.

* Volga Siber-mid-class sedan based on Chrysler Sebring platform ( 2008 – 2011 )

At the time of the Taurus's debut, Ford had been producing mainly rear-wheel drive cars, and Chrysler and General Motors were offering more front-wheel drive vehicles up to midrange including the Chrysler K platform and A-body Chevrolet Celebrity.

In 1984 the Chrysler Corporation introduced the first minivans derived from the K platform.

The Eagle mostly competed with Dodge, while the compact Summit competed with Plymouth, and the Vision was up against the other Chrysler LH platform derivatives.

Chrysler revived the " Spirit " name dropped by AMC after 1983 for use on one of its A platform cars, ( the Dodge Spirit ) from 1989 – 1995.

The full-sized Premier's platform was far more advanced than anything Chrysler was building at the time.

Plymouth almost received their own rendition of the LH platform, which was to be called the Accolade, but Chrysler decided to nix this idea not long before LH production started.

* Chrysler MK platform ( Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot )

* Chrysler K platform, extended Chrysler K car range sometimes called EEKs

the Dodge Aries, a typical Chrysler K platform | K-Car

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

Chrysler considered giving Plymouth a variant of the highly successful new-for-1993 full-size LH platform, which would have been called the Accolade, but decided against it.

Paying $ 50, 000 to Warner Brothers to use the name and likeness of their Road Runner cartoon character ( as well as a " beep, beep " horn, which Plymouth paid $ 10, 000 to develop ), and using the Chrysler B platform as a base ( the same as the Belvedere, Satellite, and GTX ), Plymouth set out to build a back-to-basics muscle car.

Chrysler introduced the Dodge and Plymouth minivans in November 1983 for the 1984 model year, using an extended derivative of the Chrysler K platform, the Chrysler S platform.

Full-time all-wheel drive was introduced to North American minivans in 1990 with the Ford Aerostar's E-4WD option, followed in 1991 by the Toyota Previa All-Trac, and in 1992 on models made by Chrysler.

Borrowing the recently introduced Chrysler Horizon from their European division, Dodge was able to get its new Omni subcompact on the market fairly quickly.

Followng the Global Financial Crisis, Chrysler introduced the facelifted model of the Caliber and discontinued the Avenger imports.

GM styling as a whole lost its frontrunner status in 1957 when Chrysler introduced Virgil Exner's " Forward Look " designs.

Chrysler, together with the Bendix Corporation, introduced a computerized, three-channel, four-sensor all-wheel ABS called " Sure Brake " for its 1971 Imperial.

In 1962, Chrysler introduced a starter incorporating a geartrain between the motor and the drive shaft.

In terms of AMC-related parts, some were used as late as 2006, when the Jeep Wrangler ( the last new product introduced by AMC before the Chrysler deal ) was still using the AMC Straight-6 engine in some models, as well as the door handles that were used as far back as the late 1960s by AMC.

Although Chrysler introduced new logos for its brands in the 1990s and again in 2010 after the Fiat Group took control of the company, Jeep still uses the AMC-era logo introduced shortly after AMC's purchase of the brand in 1970.

Chrysler Corporation introduced the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon hatchbacks in 1978.

In 1982 & ' 83, Mitsubishi introduced the Australian-built Chrysler Sigma to the UK as the Lonsdale Sigma in an attempt to circumvent British import quotas, but the new brand was unsuccessful.

These included cars ultimately introduced by Chrysler – the K car and the minivan.

Chrysler introduced the minivan, chiefly Sperlich's " baby ," in the fall of 1983.

The Plymouth Breeze was dropped after 2000, before Chrysler introduced their redesigned 2001 Dodge Stratus and Chrysler Sebring sedan.

Detroit's response to the growing popularity of imported compacts like the Toyota Corolla and the Volkswagen Rabbit were the Chevrolet Citation, and the Ford Fairmont ; Ford replaced the Ford Pinto with the Ford Escort and Chrysler, on the verge of bankruptcy, introduced the Dodge Aries K. GM was having unfavorable market reactions to the Citation, and introduced the Chevrolet Corsica and Chevrolet Beretta in 1987 which did sell better.

In development for nearly 5 years from early 1990 to December 26, 1994 ( final design approved in May 1992 ), the 1996 model was introduced on January 4, 1995 at the 1995 North American International Auto Show ( NAIAS ) using the Chrysler NS platform.

It included a number of innovations, including a driver's side sliding door ( optional initially, to become standard equipment later ), a first for Chrysler and a non-compact minivan for the United States & Canada ( the Honda Odyssey had introduced the first four-door non-compact minivan for the United States & Canada in 1994, although the first-generation Odyssey had rear-hinged doors ).

With Generation III, Chrysler introduced a seat management system marketed as Easy Out Roller Seats.

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.