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The History of Chrysler
Walter Chrysler, an ex-GM executive, started Chrysler in 1925. It was renamed from another car-maker, Maxwell Motor Car. Four years later, Chrysler climbed to the third largest car-maker in the US, behind GM and Ford.
The Plymouth brand was born in 1928. Car-maker Dodge Brothers was acquired in the same year. The purchase of AMC (American Motors Corporation) in 1987 from Renault secured the famous Jeep division.
Like Ford and GM, Chrysler’s factories were turned into an arsenal during WWII—focusing on making Sherman M4 tanks. With the Korea war in 1950, Chrysler again increasing their wartime profits.
Chrysler was in financial crisis during the 70’s and early 80’s, due to the oil crisis, emission control, and increased sales of Japanese cars. When Lee Iacocca was hired from Ford in 1978 as the new president, the company was close to bankruptcy. Iacocca, the father of Mustang, introduced a radical cost reduction, cutting unpopular models and reducing platforms—eventually to only one.
Iacocca sought a $1.5 billion loan from the federal government to finance the development of the their one platform, the front-wheel-drive K-cars, that formed the basis of many models including the Laser coupe. The K-cars were small cars compared with GM and Ford’s models and they helped Chrysler to regain profitability in 1982. Next year, Chrysler pioneered the MPV trend with Voyager / Caravan which soon became the company’s best seller.
Since the Iacocca era, Chrysler has become an efficient, fast-reacting and creative car-maker. They were the first car maker to realize the potential of MPV and SUV, which helped them earne billions before competitors came. The Neon represented a creative design and development process with engineers and stylists working under the same roof. This helped it to achieve a record-breaking development time.
Being the smallest of the America Big 3, Chrysler is relatively flexible, efficient and fast-reacting. It is renown for creativity, typically implementing new ideas into production, e.g. concept cars such as Viper, Crossfire and PT Cruiser. The cab-forward design of Cirrus and LH-series once led the world’s design trend. What Chrysler lacked was quality and technology but this was solved by its merger with Mercedes in 1998. Mercedes not only transferred its technology and quality control discipline to Chrysler but also was involved in the development of Pacifica, Crossfire and 300 / Magnum.
The merge with Mercedes has once again made Chrysler a leader in innovation and design. We are looking forward to the many new designs and models Chrysler will introduce in the future.
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