frank ortiz Darth Vader’s favorite car was the Imperial!

Bryce Walat Haha! Worst pun ever! 👍🏻

James Earl Jones?

the 1976 New Yorker Brougham was the replacement to the 1975 Imperial

Except for Chrysler's pathetic reliability and quality control. The GM products look WAY better IMO to. I sure wish they still made cars like this!

tyler2610 Looks is a matter of taste. I thought GM products of this era looked uninspired and generic. My dad had a ‘77 New Yorker and kept it eight years. Other than the Lean Burn system, which was too delicate for its job, the car was trouble free and rattle free during our ownership.

Only items that didn't go to the New Yorker from Imperials were the four wheel disc brakes and vinyl roof with the formal rear window (This did eventually in 1978 with the Salon package)

Never too late! lol

They had to because in reality the GM cars were so much better. There is a reason the Buick and Olds sold almost 5 time better at the same price! I would gladly take that Buick, what a lovely car.

No, Boris Karloff died long before this. The voice is distorted by the video, unfortunately. And it's not James Earl Jones either.

That's possibly because the car was so huge a driver could never reach it if it were above the passenger's knees! :)

Going downhill fast ....

Toll roads. Those cars were great on the interstate.

+DelilahThePig Tesla is rated the worst car in the world, based on owner complaints. So I wouldn't use Tesla's technology.

+joeysixtysix From your keyboard to the car God's monitor. Believe me, if I still could I would.

At your local Fiat-Chrysler dealer! lol

+japanjack62 The Cadillacs were and are overpriced, under-engineered money pits that gullible people with more money than brains were lured in to buying. "Standard of the world"???? The Bizarro world perhaps.

ClassicTVMan1981X THEY'RE GREAT!!

What's funny is you could get a Plymouth Fury four door hardtop. It was probably more expensive then the Chevy or Ford. You couldn't get vent windows on the Fury four door hardtop either. Side note. The Fury had a center arm rest that you had to share with the passenger but was noted favorably in the Fury vs The larger Oldsmobile and Buick.

@@rickloera9468 And there was only so far you could option up a Fury before the salesman went into his "for a few dollars more a month..." spiel and started showing you a Chrysler Newport.

@@nlpnt Exactly. If you are going to load up a Fury with options and be in the range of a Newport, you might as well get a Newport.

My mistake. Plymouth had discontinued the 4 door hardtop for the 1976 model year. In 1974 and 1975 you could get vent windows on the 4 door hardtops as well as the 4 door sedan. No vent windows available on 2 door models.

***** but the question is why did they go with Two Gm cars and not the mercury for the comparo. Trust me a Marquis was a really luxorious car too.

as much as I admire the Mercury Grand Marquis they are still a "super Ford LTD" and not in the same class as the Chrysler New Yorker Brougham

OsbornTramain...These were such nice cars... I just hated that Chrysler smog control computer on the big block engines... It really robbed the big block engine of a lot of performance... That computer gave me more trouble on my 1977 Chrysler Newport, with the 400 big block... Mostly when it was raining outside... And I had to replace the ballast resistor on that car about 6 times when I owned it... It kept blowing out for some reason... But, the car was immense, the ride was quiet, and it was one of the most comfortable cars I've ever owned... I miss these cars being on the road so much today... Its like we've lost a little piece of America... I really appreciate all your Chrysler posts... I think I have looked at every commercial that you put up for Mopar... I have loved great big Chrysler landyachts, and super cool Dodge and Plymouth muscle cars and police pursuit vehicles, my entire life... all of my 50 years... In 1972, my uncle bought a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, with a 426 Hemi, & a 4 speed... I was only 9 years old when he gave me a ride in that car, but it changed my life...and it made me a lifelong Chrysler fan... I can never forget the growl of that engine, and watching him shift the gears in that beautiful console, with that wood grain, 4 speed shifter... God bless mother Mopar!

+OsbornTramain I am a big Mopar fan but I agree it is a bit unfair to put this car against a Buick or Olds. Although, they were setting the parameters by cost, so maybe I'm wrong. Depends how you look at it, but I agree Cadillac was the real competition, and I would still take that New Yorker over the Cadillac even for the same money.

So what your saying, is that the New Yorker was a better car than the Buick or Olds........? Isn't that the whole point of marketing and trying to get increased sales? How is that unfair? Dollar for Dollar, the New Yorker was a better value........that's how business works and marketing. These New Yorkers had many of the standard features deleted over the previous years Imperial LeBaron.....making the car lower in price.

I take any '76 full-sized AMERICAN made luxury car over the bullshit the American car makers are trying to pass off as a car today! The styling was superior to the plastic crap that passes for luxury today, imo. As much as I love my 2009 Mercury Grand Marquis Ultimate Edition, I'd gladly trade it for any '76 luxury American made car!

kerryincolumbus. Those cars rode beautifully. But honestly they required a lot of maintenance and repairs compared to today's uninspiring vehicles. They loved the repair shop. Tuneups were every 10k, etc., etc. But to someone my age, they bring a smile to my face when I occasionally see them out on the road nowadays.

No they just popped it out of place.

Exactly, because they were better cars and better looking. The Buick and Olds sold well over 100K each, the Chrysler I believe sold around 30K.

@@tyler2610 Better built cars? Arguable. Better looking? Totally subjective. And since when did most sales = best cars? By that metric, Post Malone and Cardi B make the best music…opinions, man…

I'm familiar with the Lean Burn.. what's MSD?

MSD is an aftermarket ignition company. they make good items to replace factory components

The lean burn system ran like crap even when it was new. People would remove them the moment they bought the car. It was a good idea but the technology wasn't there. In some cases it actually made gas mileage worse.

The look of the hardtop is so much nicer though. GM offered a pillared sedan on the Impala, LeSabre, 88, and Catalina but the hardtop versions seen here looked a lot better IMO.

I liked the old hard top look better

+Milford Civic Wrong, European cars were choked by emissions. By 1975 all new cars in the US had to have catalytic converters. Lead free fuel had been phased in since 1970. Air quality standards in America were much higher than in Europe at that time and European emission standards were heavily influenced by US standards. These cars were not at all underpowered. They were specifically designed for North American consumers who wanted spacious, comfortable cars that also offered good utility. These are not race cars. However, they can haul a decent size trailer, they were great for long-distance travel and could seat between six and seven people comfortably. Comparing what was offered to consumers in the US with similarly priced cars in Europe, American cars were good value for money. Not even Mercedes Benz offered the kind of luxury inclusions and other options that one would find in a regular full-size American family car for around five or six thousand dollars at that time.

The cars shown in this video were not underpowered. By 1981 GM was putting a 4.1 litre V-6 engine in the Buick Electra .THAT was underpowered.