Chrysler E Class

The Chrysler E Class was offered by the U.S. carmaker Chrysler in the model years 1983 and 1984 midsize sedan. He was related to the first front-wheel drive version of the Chrysler New Yorker and almost identical to the Dodge 600 and the Plymouth Caravelle. The technical basis was referred to internally as the Chrysler E platform.

Model history

Since 1980, Chrysler introduced the model line its divisions consistently on compact front-wheel drive models to offer. After the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant which appeared in the autumn of the second generation of the Chrysler LeBaron, which was also based on the K -car platform and a stylistically slightly modified version of the Aries / Reliant twins was. The position of the top model of the Chrysler division should take from the 1983 Chrysler New Yorker, also a variant of the K -Cars, but with a longer wheelbase, high quality equipment and a modified design elements with conservative body. The gap between Chrysler LeBaron entry-level model and the high-priced New York should the model E-Class fill that divided the long wheelbase and most sheet metal parts with the New Yorker, but wore a simple body design in the roof area. So renounced the E- Class on the related with vinyl Landau roof of New York; Instead, it possessed in the C-pillar via a third side window. Overall, the E-Class was less luxuriously equipped. The positioning of the E-Class corresponded to that of the previous Chrysler Newport, whose production was discontinued at the end of 1981.

On the drive side were the E Class Chrysler 2.2 -liter inline four- cylinder or the supplied supplied by Mitsubishi 2.6 -liter inline four- cylinder with balance shafts to choose from, in model year 1983 also a turbo version of the smaller four- cylinder. Standard in all models was the TorqueFlite three- speed automatic.

The Chrysler E-Class has been sold in the U.S. exclusively via the Chrysler - Plymouth dealer. For the network that is independent of the Dodge dealer with the E- Class a nearly identical model called the Dodge 600 was offered, which - unlike the E-Class - even in a coupe and a convertible version was available.

After only two years and 71,000 copies of the E Class was the end of 1984 from the Chrysler Division program. A largely identical car but was offered from the 1985 model year with a modified radiator grille Plymouth Caravelle on the Chrysler - Plymouth dealer network. The Dodge 600 was identical as well as the Caravelle produced until 1988.

Swell

  • Flammang, James M / Kowalke, Ron. Standard Catalog of American Cars 1976-1999, Krause Publications, Iola 1999, ISBN 0-87341-755-0
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