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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Chrysler Sundance

The compact front-drive hatchback Plymouth Sundance was manufactured in factories to Chrysler in Sterling Heights (Michigan) and Toluca (Mexico) from August 25, 1986. It was assumed that much more car will compete with such well-known compact sets, as the Ford Escort, Honda Civic and the Geo Prizm. The predecessors of the model were the Plymouth Turismo, and Plymouth Horizon, and were similar Dodge Shadow and the Shelby CSX.

Chrysler SundanceThe base structure located pastors proven platform K. Despite the fact that the model looked like a sedan, in fact, it was a hatchback. Sundance could have both 3 - and 5-door 5-seater body, the dimensions of which version to 1987-1989 were 4361/1709/1339 mm, for cars 1990-1994 registration - 4364/1709/1349 mm at the wheel based on 2464 and 2469 mm respectively. Track pastors was 1460/1455 mm. Curb weight 3-door Sundance - 1183 kg, and 5-door - 1199 kg. The standard volume of 375 l luggage space, with the folded rear seat forward - 945 liters. Minimum ground clearance - 120 mm.

Structurally, the Sundance tradition continued with sports and car smuggle Plymouth "bias", although its interior was designed more for comfortable movement. In 1989 (for a car befell the 1990 model year) was modernized the look of the machine: changed grille and optics.

Initially, the production of Sundance consisted of only one standard, but in 1990 began production of "charged" versions of the RS, in which the facilities were turbocharged engines, fog lights, leather steering wheel, a modern sound system and tinted windows. Since 1991, the basic equipment has improved and has become divided into two levels: beginners America and the "average» Highline. These included power windows, central locking, electrically adjustable mirrors, cruise control, cassette, sunroof, height adjustable steering wheel, rear window heater, electric adjustable driver's seat and fog lights. It should be noted that Sundance was the most affordable in its class for the U.S. market in those years.

In 1992, the release of version RS was terminated by the addition of the version Sundance Duster, which established a powerful new V6 engine 3 liters. Other features include a complete set Duster can allocate special alloy wheels and unique interior details.


The range of engines, mounted on the Plymouth Sundance included the 4-cylinder 8-valve 2.2-liter petrol monovpryskovye (93 hp, 165 Nm), 2.2-liter Turbo (146 hp, 230 Nm), 2 , 5 l (100 hp, 183 Nm), 2.5-liter Turbo (152 hp, 251 Nm) and 3-liter V6 Mitsubishi 6G72 (141 hp, 232 Nm). As seen from the performance, power plants have been designed so that developed an impressive torque at a relatively small amount of horsepower. They were installed in the front cross.

Sundance with the base 2.2-liter engine developed a maximum speed of 170 km / h, consuming 7 liters of petrol AI-92 on the highway and 12 liters - in the city and flow of the 2.5-liter engine 8 hp and 14 hp respectively. 2.5-liter turbocharged engine making the car faster than 30 km / h, burning 9 gallons of gas while driving on the highway and 16 liters - in the urban cycle. Finally, the 3-liter version with the distributed injection allowed to accelerate to 190 km / h, consumption of AI-92 was 9 l and 15 l (highway / city).

At Sundance used the steering of the "gear-rack" with power. The suspension front and rear coil springs were used. The front brakes are ventilated disc, Rear - disc. The size of the standard tires 185/70 R14.

The system included the presence of active safety as standard ABS and Brake Assist. In 1990, according to the tougher requirements much more car equipped with driver air bag, and in 1994, and the front passenger seat belt was fitted with a avtomatitcheskim tensioner. According to the NHTSA tests in 1993 Sundance got top marks and was recognized as the safest car pastors of the year.

Suffice roomy, with an attractive design and robust powertrains, practical and balanced performance characteristics, Plymouth Sundance was popular until the completion of its release March 9, 1994. Sundance was the successor to the Plymouth Neon.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Chrysler Valiant


The Chrysler Valiant is a passenger car which was introduced by Chrysler Australia in 1962 with production ceasing in 1981.
After the Plymouth Valiant turned out to be a success in the United States (starting with its 1959 introduction), Chrysler released Australia's first locally assembled Valiant, the RV1 (R-series). It was officially unveiled by South Australia's Premier, Sir Thomas Playford, in January 1962 and was assembled at Chrysler's Mile End facility.
The R-series Valiant was an instant success. Not everyone was taken instantly by the car's styling, but the general consensus was that the car had a modern, almost space age quality about it.
Also notable was the Valiant's performance with 145 brake horsepower (108 kW) from the 225 slant-6 engine. This was a lot of power compared to the competing Holdens and Fords, which offered only 75 bhp (56 kW) and 85 bhp (63 kW) respectively.The R-series Valiant was the first Australian car to come with an alternator instead of a generator, and instead of coil springs, the Valiant came with torsion bar suspension


Sunday, April 15, 2012

Chrysler Voyager

Chrysler Voyager and Chrysler Grand Voyager is a minivan sold Chrysler division of American automaker Chrysler Group LLC. For most of its existence the car with a sign Chrysler Voyager were sold only outside the United States, primarily in Europe and Mexico.

Voyager was introduced in Europe in 1988 as a rebadged version of the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, sold in the United States, and developed together with the Caravan, Plymouth Voyager and Chrysler Town & Country with. Vehicles bearing plates Chrysler Voyager was briefly sold in the United States from 2001 to 2003, a rebadged version of the short-wheelbase version of the Plymouth Voyager after 2001, adding the Plymouth division of DaimlerChrysler AG.


The European Chrysler Voyager was first released in 1988, almost identical to its American counterpart, Plymouth Voyager, only visual difference between the two was the head / tail lights and grille. In addition, several other species, European Voyagers were sold with different engines, including diesel engines, which are popular in Europe, as well as finishing has been different. They are also available with a manual transmission and the brake pedal of an emergency.

Currently, Chrysler Grand Voyager Europe very similar to those of 2008 and later Chrysler and the country's cars and sold only in the long-wheelbase version (as in North America).

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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Dodge Custom Royal

It Dodge 1955 lineup, which consists of entry-level crown, royal, rich and user-Royal, was a major departure for the company. Guided almost out of business in 1953 and 1954 Chrysler Corporation was revived with a $ 250 million loan from Prudential and new models developed by the legendary Virgil Exner. Dodge lineup was positioned as the main line in the hierarchy of Chrysler, Plymouth and between Soto

The flagship model was the Custom Royal. All hardtop coupe and Custom Royal-only convertible models were called "Custom Royal Lancer", and the "Custom Royal" sedan gained the Lancer badge soon after its introduction as well. The Custom line featured unique chrome tailfins (although early model year cars went without this trim), special tail light surrounds, and an upscale interior. Backup lights were standard on the Custom line but optional on all others. The Custom Royal also featured the hemi 270CID Super Red Ram engine

Monday, March 26, 2012

1936 Chrysler Airflow


Airstream Chrysler was a car produced by the division of Chrysler in Chrysler Corporation in 1935-1936 gg.Vozdushny flow was normal looking car, which was cut to evoke a sense of streamlined design. The same car with the same name was sold to a satellite Airstream DeSoto Chrysler brand during the reporting period.

Create Airstream was the result of the unpopularity of the streamlined Chrysler Airflow, which consumers could not prinyat.Vozdushny flow was established in 1933 at the Chrysler "CO" model, which was moved in 1934 model year as Chrysler "CA". When the air flow is not able to attract the attention of the public purchasing, Chrysler retrimmed "CA", gave the car rear fender skirts and rolled out a model, which they hoped would appeal to the Depression era buyers. In addition to marketing Airstream Airflow, Chrysler can meet the needs of the public, hoping to produce enough air flow to compensate for their development.

In the two years of production, Airstream has surpassed Airflow 12:55 in the first year, and nearly nine to one in 1936.

Chrysler has stopped "Airstream" model name for the Chrysler and DeSoto in the early 1937 model year.

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Monday, March 19, 2012

Dodge Charger


The idea to create it originated with the beginning of the era «muscle car'ov", when in 1964, was released Pontiac GTO, which was an ordinary sedan, equipped with powerful 335-horsepower engine. The model was so much more popular as the other American car manufacturers have decided to create such models. Concept Charger (1965) based on the Dodge Coronet received high ratings, and the car went into a series.

January 1st, 1966 at the annual Rose Bowl Game was first shown to spectators «Dodge Charger» - a new flagship car of Dodge. The main designer of the project was Carl Cameron (Carl «CAM» Cameron). Sales began in mid-1966.

In 1966, the Charger is a feature grille «electric shaver» (English electric shaver - Electric) - used in full hiding lights that Chrysler has not been used since 1942 (on some models of units DeSoto) - when the lights are open or closed grille looks a whole detail.

Dodge Charger 1967

Inside, Dodge Charger has four separate anatomical seats, the console is long from front to rear (Full Console). Rear seats and part of the console can be folded forward, and delete the partition boot back, which allowed to place luggage inside the cabin. Many of the items were exclusive - door panels, instrument panel lights, and others.

dashboard lights (model 1966)

All engines have a choice of V8. Six-cylinder engines up to 1968 have been proposed. In 1966 four engines were offered a choice:
318 V8 (5.2 liters), the base model, with triple carburettors
361 V8 (5.9 liters) with triple carburettors
383 V8 (6.3 liters) with 325 hp (242 kW) with Quad - the majority of orders in 1966
V8 426 «Street Hemi» (7 l) - a new Chrysler engine with two quad.

At the end of 1966 as a dealer installed option on the boot lid spoiler (due to the rules of participation in NASCAR). In 1966, the Dodge Charger was the first production car in the U.S., equipped with a spoiler.

Spoiler NASCAR in 1966

Total production Dodge Charger in 1966 amounted to 37,344 units.

Despite the fact that the start of sales were in the middle of the 1966 Dodge Charger's debut was very successful. In 1967, there have been some changes to the exterior, as well as vinyl roof become available. Inside full length console was gone (due to customer complaints on nuisance boarding and alighting from the rear seats). Separate bucket seats are standard, and a folding armrest is an option that allows to sit in front of three.

In 1967 he was offered a choice of five engines:
318 V8 (5.2 liters), the base model, with triple carburetor, used wedge-shaped combustion chamber (series «Chrysler LA»)
383 V8 (6.3 liter) with triple carburettors
383 V8 (6.3 liters) with 325 hp (242 kW) with Quad
V8 426 «Street Hemi» (7 l) - a new Chrysler engine with two quad
440 V8 "Magnum" - a conservative 375 hp engine with a single quad.

Despite success in NASCAR in 1966, sales in 1967 declined by half. In 1967 it was sold just 15,788 Dodge Charger - Dodge faced with competition from the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro.

In 1968, Dodge has planned restyling of the entire line of models and decided it was time to separate the model «Dodge Coronet» and «Dodge Charger» more. The style of the new Dodge Charger, designed by Richard SIAS (Richard Sias), would later be called "Coke Bottle Style» («Coke bottle styling»), as the profile of the body bends like a bottle of Coca-Cola.

Salon 1969 Dodge Charger

Charger retained its original grille with hidden headlights, but fully rotating headlights with electric have been replaced by a simple rotary actuator with a vacuum, as in «Camaro RS». The interior has remained almost unchanged, tachometer instead of the standard equipment was the option in the boot cover is replaced by a vinyl mat.

In order to further improve the image of the vehicle type «muscle car» added a new option package under the name R / T, which meant «Road / Track» (that is, between the road and track). Index «R / T» was placed only on cars with high power - Dodge Charger R / T engine "440 Magnum» (standard R / T) or "426 Hemi» (optional). At sufficiently heavily loaded rear axle and rear tire width of a large Dodge Charger equipped with the engine "440 Magnum» managed to lift the rear wheels when starting "with two pedals."

Dodge Charger 1969

In 1968, Chrysler Corporation has launched a new advertising campaign featuring a bee with a motor on the back. These cars were called «Scat Pack». Coronet R / T, Dodge Super Bee, Dart GTS and Charger R / T received the "bumblebee stripes" (two thin stripes framing two thick stripes). They could be removed at no cost. These changes proved to be very popular among the population and helped to sell 96,100 in the 1968 Dodge Charger, including more than 17,000 Dodge Charger R / T.

Dodge Charger 1969 back

In 1969, the Dodge Charger was somewhat changed. Exterior changes include a new grille with the division in the center and the new rear lights from designer Harvey J. Winn. Added a new trim line called the Special Edition (SE). It can be ordered separately or together with the package R / T, resulting in a package of R / T-SE. In the SE package added leather inserts on front seats, chrome moldings, and wood inserts on the dashboard. The list of options has been added to hatch, but it would be very rare option - about 260 cars sold. Total production in 1969 amounted to about 89,199 units.

In 1969, Dodge has released two of the most rare versions Dodge Charger: Dodge Charger 500, Dodge Charger Daytona.

Dodge Charger 1970

In 1970, the Dodge Charger again underwent minor changes. Was introduced a large chrome bumper, radiator grille again divided in the middle. The rear lights were old, but modified Dodge Charger 500, Dodge Charger R / T received a new, more attractive taillights. Changes in the interior include a new high back seats, door panels have also been revised.

A new engine option - "440 Six Pack». With three carburetors and dual-chamber capacity of 390 hp (291 kW), it was one of the most exotic plants in the early 1960s. «Six Pack» was known at that time - it was used in mid-1969 on the Dodge Super Bee and engines «Hemi» of his superior. Despite this new engine sales fell again (up to 46 576 units), but it was associated with the release of the Dodge Challenger and high insurance rates. In the season of NASCAR 1970 Dodge Charger has brought more victories (10 wins) than any other car, including a special Dodge Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird.

Dodge Charger 500


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Dodge Corone


The Dodge Coronet was introduced as part of the first postwar model range. The vehicle was the most luxurious offering, including ranged Wayfarer and Meadowbrook. The only available engine was a page-controlled six-cylinder 3769 cc engine displacement and with a single Stromberg carburettor, which developed 103 bhpLeistung.

From 1953 the Coronet was delivered on request to the "Red Ram" Chrysler Hemi engine with 3949 cc. With this machine he set speed records at Bonneville over 100 flats. 1954 above the Coronet, the series was introduced Royal .. The Coronet was a nice car and the six-cylinder engine could accelerate it up to over 140 km / h. In limited numbers, there was also a Pullman saloon with four doors for 8 people, an extended version of the normal Coronet. One of the most remarkable details of the Coronet of the first generation was a 3-speed automatic, which was controlled with a pedal in the footwell. A lever is not required.

1955 fell off the Wayfarer and Meadowbrook, so the cheapest Dodge Coronet represented the offering. The Royal was the center as a model and flagship model was introduced in the Custom Royal. Driven the cars were powered by either a side-valve straight six engine with 3769 cc displacement, the other carried now, thanks to 90.5  carburetor, or a V8 Chrysler Hemi engine with 5211 cc.

There were a number of design variants:
three-or five-door combi - he was called Suburban and had a V-8 or R-6 engine
two-door hardtop coupe - the Lancer with a V8 engine
two-or four-door sedan - with a V8 engine or R6
four-door Pullman limousine for 8 people
From 1965, the average model was the name of Dodge Coronet. In 1966, the model was revised in 1967 got a facelift. In 1968, then offered larger bodies with "Coke bottle" design. A high-performance R / T model appeared in 1967, even with 287 in 1969 and three twin carburetors. For the model range also included a hardtop coupe and a convertible.

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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Jeep part 2


On the hood, rear door and window frames had to be the logo Jeep. However, in the first years of production, the company has conducted trials with the "American Bantam Car" on the right of use of the name Jeep vehicles had to make the logo Willys. But already in 1950 the company has achieved to establish itself as the name, and June 13, 1950 Jeep was registered as a trademark.

In 1946, Willys was the first in the automotive industry, who proposed a kind of vehicle for civilian use. The car had a rear-wheel drive and could accommodate with up to seven people. Speed ​​performance, however, did not shine - 100 km / h And here is presented in four-wheel drive version of 1949, in fact, was the "grandfather" of modern Jeep Grand Cherokee.


In 1953 the firm was acquired by Willys Kaiser-Fraizer, and in 1963 renamed the Kaiser Jeep. Since 1969, the Jeep brand belonged to the group AMC (American Motors Co.), In turn, got in 1987 under the full control group Chrysler. Since 1998, the Department Jeep, specializing in the production of off-road vehicles, is part of a transnational group DaimlerChrysler Corp.

1960 was perhaps the most important in the history of the Jeep: it is the time to shape the market off-road vehicles (SUV). Back in the mid-1950s the company began actively researching and developing new projects with the wheel formula cars 4 × 4. The first fruits of the program has given the fall of 1962, when a whole new Jeep Wagoneer (wagon), is fundamentally different from earlier manufactured. The model belongs to the J-series, and was equipped with a full or partial drive.

In 1954 was born on the fifth version of "civilian Jeep» - CJ5. This all-wheel drive vehicle has been so successful that it stayed on the line, changing, however, engines, suspension and transmission, up to 1983.

In the series "Civil SUVs» - CJ - back in 1949 called stuck Universal («universal») 2/4-dverny Wagoneer with a 2.79-meter wheelbase was the first commercial vehicles with automatic gearbox, design and comfort of a passenger car in which supplemented with off-road performance. The combination of all-wheel drive with a "gun" was used in the industry for the first time. In addition, the engine Wagoneer - «Tornado» - is the only American power unit with overhead camshaft.

In 1963 Wagoneer model received a new 250-hp engine V6 «Vigiliante».

In the late 1960s, engineers have created a series of regular engine "Dontles", now with eight cylinders. It was decided to put on a series of J, to which belonged Wagoneer and Super Wagoneer.

In December of 1965 Jeep dealers put in their own salons Super Wagoneer. Two years later, this series of Jeep began to install automatic transmission "Gidromatik."



Entry into a new "ten-year" marked another change for the Jeep owner. February 5, 1970 American Motor Corporation (AMC) acquired Kaiser Jeep Corporation for $ 70 million. For the Jeep Wagoneer AMC offered the largest in the history of all-wheel drive wagon - V6 with a single camshaft. Options were also the first time in world practice, V8

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Jeep part 1


Creator of the first car Jeep is an American engineer Karl Probst, who constructed in July 1940 on the American Bantam company in the tender, the U.S. Army Bantam BRC-wheel drive car capacity, "a quarter ton of" open-body type Ranebaut. This design was later refined at the insistence of the army larger firms Willys-Overland and Ford Motor Co., As a result and have received major contracts for the supply of Jeep Willys MB and Ford GPW armies of the United States and its allies. By the end of World War II, were produced 361.4 and 277.9 thousand units., Respectively. Large supplies of the same type of data models were carried out under the "Lend-Lease" and the Soviet Union, which sent more than 51 thousand Willys assembled and disassembled.

Jeep was an informal nickname (it is believed that the name of the brand got off the car Ford GPW in particular because of the phonetic combination of first letters of the abbreviation GP) started at wide appeal of the American journalist Katharine Hiller in the spring of 1941 after testing the car Bantam. It has become a trademark of Willys-Overland in 1945.

After the war, Willys Overland decided to adjust their offspring to perform certain civic functions. Was prepared by the party machines. Just called them - CJ. These prototypes were the basis for a production model, which went on sale in August 1945.

On the hood, rear door and window frames had to be the logo Jeep. However, in the first years of production, the company has conducted trials with the "American Bantam Car" on the right of use of the name Jeep vehicles had to make the logo Willys. But already in 1950 the company has achieved to establish itself as the name, and June 13, 1950 Jeep was registered as a trademark.


Externally, all the power was in the presence of Lift Up the tailgate, wipers and covers the fuel tank on the rear wing




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