Chrysler Beats GM in All Categories! Video!

The video would even be better if you cut and pasted the link.

Jeff

Forgot the link...here it is

Chrysler used to make technically superior cars.

What a great video. The RR track crossing was fantastic.

When was that? I drove Chryslers in the 60's and 70's, owned one in the 80's, and my SO had one in the 90's. The 60's and 70's were nothing special (a better term would be "unreliable junk").. The one I owned in the 80's drove nicely but was so poorly thrown together I kept it less than a year. My SOs Plymouth was OK, but certainly nothing "technically superior."

Ed

Wow, so that was the ONE year Chrysler made good cars!

Demolition derby materials? I guess he was talking about the years that they made the big Imperials. Around here, some demolition derbys will not let anybody enter a Chrysler Imperial because of the big advantage that you have. Other than that, who knows?

Thank god they don't build them like that any more. They were all over the place during braking.

Good morning. A few examples of Chrysler technical superiority over GM and Ford during the late '50s up until about 1973 when most all of Detroit went to hell:

TorqueFlite trans. Superior in performance, weight, durability and efficiency. Torsion bar front suspension. Better handling and adjustable. Widespread use of an alternator from about '60 up. Unit body from about '62 up. First widespread use of electronic ignition starting in '72.

I am sure there are others.

Lee Richardson.

I drove 60's era Chryslers. The advantage was never obvious to me. I've always hear it claimed they were durable (no reason to think they weren't), but I find your claims of superior performance and efficiency hard to swallow. They were definitely heavier than a C4 Ford Automatic (but lighter than a C6 or an FMX).

Torsion bars are notorious for transmitting noise and harshness to the body (especially unit bodies) - even Chrysler stopped using them for cars. The last gasp was the horrible arrangement used for the Aspen/Volare. What a POS that was.

As for "better handling" - the Chryslers I drove in the 60's were horrible. I see no reason to think that torsion bars should provide for superior handling.

The old Chrysler alternators were great. I still have one in a 35 year old truck that works just fine.

I think they actually had unit bodies before that, but then so did Ford (Falcon, Fairlane) and GM (Covair, Tempest, Skylark, etc>). Chrysler actually had some unit bodies before WWII (Airflow).

I don't think they were ahead of anyone else on this. By 1972 every manufacturer had some cars with electronic ignition. And Chrysler still had some cars with conventional ignition later (at least as late as 1975 - probably later).

I think you could legitimately argue that Chrysler was the most innovative US auto manufacturer from the 30's until around 1957. After that I can't point to any significant new technological innovation Chrysler introduced unless you want to count the front wheel drive mini-van or the horrible lean-burn system.

Ed

Now that Chrysler has hired the x-CEO of Home Depot they are in for a fast and rough ride out of business. Just review his accomplishments at H-D. Sales down, value of stock down and many dissatisfied customers. Lets not forget the outrageous "exit" package he received in Jan, 07. This package generated many stockholder lawsuits. These will end up costing H-D a very large pile of cash.

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I'm not so sure that the Chrysler-made front wheel drive mini-van was so great except the fact that they were the first company to build one and for that reason they've had the greatest sales. They (like everybody else) have had their faults. Probably one of the bigger blunders about their minivan was the day it was introduced. In front of about a hundred photographers, a company big wig drove up the first minivan with Lee Iacoca (sp?) riding in the middle seat. Amid hundreds of camera flashes the van stops and the big wig gets out, walks over to the sliding door to let Lee out, and..........the sliding door is stuck. Mr Iacoca has to crawl over the front seat and has to exit out a front door.

Gawd, I wished I had that on video.

The best work car I ever had was a 1980 Plymouth police package. Road and handled wonderfully, engine was so smooth and well isolated I often started the car when it was already running. It was a little hard on brakes but not much went wrong with it for the 100K I had it. And as the movie showed, the Chryslers of the late 50's early 60's were way ahead of the competition. Heck, up thru the eighties Ford couldn't even make a power steering system that didn't give up in an abrupt steering maneuver. And technical superiority doesn't necessarily mean they were well made.

What amazes me is that I didn't know they have moving picture videos back in

1957. I just thought they had Mathew Brady type cameras. >

What amazes me is that I didn't know they have moving picture videos back in

1957. I just thought they had Mathew Brady type cameras. >

I bought my first computer in 1957. It had a half a Kilobytes of Ram and a 2 Kilobyte HD and came with a dvd player too. The case was all chrome and looked like a giant toaster.

> What amazes me is that I didn't know they have moving picture videos back>> in

What kind of computer? I did not know they even had DVD back in 1957 or even computers available back then, except for commercial applications.

Jeff

>> What amazes me is that I didn't know they have moving picture>>> videos back in

My bs meter just went off the charts.

The first home computer was something called an "Altair" in about 1974, and it wasn't chrome-plated; in fact, you even had to assemble it. DVD? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!