Born a Reliant, died an Imperial. THAT'S the American Dream!

love that retro early 90s feeling this video has. like the type of films in school everybody looked forward too...because it meant no bookwork lol

I remember working on a lot of these C and Y body cars. The 3.3 was a pretty good mill. The 4 speed auto was plagued with all kinds of electronic problems at 1st, but by 93 they got it right. That A604 was used well into the mid '00s in various cars and minivans and proved to be pretty good. The air suspension was terrible, and I recall changing many of them out to regular struts, shocks and springs after the warranty expired. The ABS units were also problematic. But that interior was top notch. Fit and finish were excellent and the seats were so comfortable, even in cloth trim. Chrysler also had the fastest updating most reliable digital dashes on the market. These Imps were extremely $$, costing well over $20k in 1990 money. That turned a lot of buyers off. It's a rare treat to see 1 on the road today!

I sold Chryslers in 1988, They really worked hard as a manufacturer to make a quality product that edged out the other US auto makers with many convenience features and Extra steps to provide reliability. I would love to have one of these today ....This would be a car I could see Lee Iacooca drive himself.

My parents had one , they bought a new one in 1992 my Dad was a Chrysler man . Velvet covered seats and all the bells and whistles . The ride was very quite and comfortable. Back seat leg room like a limo .

I still have a 1990 Chrysler Imperial Gloria Vanderbilt edition I absolutely love her!

People who immediately dismiss that this car is junk has never really drive or own one. I had a 1992 Chrysler New Yorker 5th Avenue that I bought on Ebay with 149,000 miles on the odometer. It had plush velvet pillow seats and it was one of the most comfortable and reliable car that I ever owned (had it for 7 years). If I had the money and space I would not hesitate to buy another of that vintage. I now own a 1997 Lincoln Town Car Signature and it's just as reliable. I gave the Chrysler to my nephew so we could "keep it in the family", but unfortunately, he wrecked it a few months later.

This has to be one of the most beautiful cars ever made.The view from the front with all that glass like finish and the sharp edges of the back a masterpiece.

I just bought one for 500.00.The fuel rail has a leak but this is a clean little car for the age.Can't wait to get it home to do the repair and general maintenance.

1990 Chrysler Imperial is the most amazing car, I have ever seen since I was 18 years old. it is wonderful, stylish, a work of art, I would like to see this model car again on the streets. 2000 cars, no matter the brand , they seem to be bored,cold,riduculous, they don´t have an elegant style, they are not even comfortable. Enjoy watching and driving 1990 Chrysler Imperial.

This shows how there was a gradual death of 80s styling in a general sense. 1990 was really like 1989+1. Clothing, styling, sharp corners on cars, etc.

I can vouch for that 'Pentasteel' exhaust. My 30 year old LeBaron Coupe has all the original exhaust system. No rust yet!!

It was used as a rental for many. I used one in Tampa FL in '92. Not a bad car as I recall.

Imperial 1990 un señor automóvil, ya no los hacen como antes 👏👏💟💟💯😁👍

My brother has one still running and driving great

It’s crazy how the LH sedans were right around the corner and they offered such radically different styling than the k cars

Has the same feel and styling of, say, a '74 Cadillac Brougham. Styling in the luxury-car segment barely budged from 1970-1990, but then it quickly changed to the more rounded look we know today right after this. This was like a Triceratops left over into the Iron Age.

The ultimate K-car !

A sharp car I want one I used to have a 1988 caddy that had a lot of these features - felt like you were driving on the most comfortable balanced car... didn’t feel any bumps the car was the smoothest ride I’ve ever had

Back in the day Chrysler had better features and Ritcher & plusher interiors than compared to Lincoln & Buick & Cadillac & Oldsmobile that’s my personal perspective

I can guarantee virtually all the people slamming these cars (or any K honestly) are probably so young they've never experienced, let alone seen one.

Wait.... shouldn't I get a certificate or something for completing this?? I have been obsessed by American luxury cars from the '20s on up since I was a kid. One of my favorites was Imperial. When I was 23, this car came out and I was bowled over by how beautiful it was. If you've never seen the dramatic photos in the original prestige catalog, they are not to be missed. It really was something special.

we have one it rides like a boat and radio cuts out but it's grate. has way! more room than any new car and gets 30mpg.

Chrysler has been without a “flagship” for quite some time.

Of that era I can vouch for the 3.0 Mitsubishi V6, 3 Speed torqueflight and exhaust system .....our 88 Dodge Caravan in 200K miles never an issue with those, nor PS or PB. The AC compressor and system was crap however and power windows failed a lot. Not the motors but the rails and guides.

These cars are very rare now look how much room it had in the back, kind of like this car. I wish still saw some on the roads guess they were ate by the crusherseven the styling wasn't bad see some Dynasty and New Yorker style.

That 4 speed automatic it has lasted in the dodge journey up until the end of the journeys run in 2022.

There was the Lincoln Versailles (Granada), the Cadillac Cimarron (Cavalier), and the 1990 Chrysler Imperial (Reliant/Aries K-Car).

I consider myself a Chrysler imperial historian although many of the comments below are true may I point out that the 1990 imperial was the only year in history that imperial overlapped the competition in resale value ( continental ) and beat the continental town car and brougham 307 in acceleration

Best interior ever!

Looks like the air suspension on the car in the video was already on the way out. Notice how much higher the front end is compared to the rear.

I would be shocked to see someone with both a 1990 Chrysler Imperial and a 1990 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue sitting in their driveway.

OK so this was no s class or 5 series but chrysler worked miracles with the K body turning into this there's no comparison between the two

Too many so called drivers, bitch about NY ERs are nothing but K cars, let me tell you, they are bullet proof, true luxury cars of that era..I had 6 NewYorkers, all got up to190 thou mi. So, GM sweethearts, cool it..

Está hermoso ese Automóvil!!!!

Crazy how this car was from 1990 yet looked like something out of 1983

yea a few years ago my ex and I seen one @ a used dealer but had a lot of electrical issues

Very interesting.

Never saw this model before !

bonitos carros de esa epoca

NICE

I have one these are sick

I remember a lady I worked with had a Cadillac and her husband wanted to turn it in, as the warranty was up, and he wanted to get one of these, but I saw her later and she had a new 1990 Cadillac, she did not want one of these Imperials

147 hp from 3.3 liters

Those are cool cars.

I wonder what this Imperial cost out the door in 1990.

"Ultra drive transmission offers improved fuel economy and consistent shift patterns." Consistent if you like shifting into neutral for 100% of the time 😎😁

The best car of Chrysler!

It's time for Imperial

Bring back front seat couches and column shifters!

Nothing like a 32k Chrysler K car all this was and is a stretched C platform Dynasty/New yorker.

has the style of a shoe box

good job

Can you please post more of these?

This right here to me signified the end of big american boat for luxry cars not that imports helped at all Now its all sports sedans thats a fusion between the two, why not focus on one thing and quit trying to be so "Sporty" ? If you want a sports car buy a sports car Whatever it may be I still love my imperial, shes quite reliable to the contrary, I hope to one day gut it and drop a Tesla battery in it once the engine dies.

Must have been a fine ride.

My mother had a Dodge Aries that went 0-60 in about 30 seconds.

Do you have the New Yorker section?

If the electronics went out on this car, you're screwed, blued, and tatooed.

I like this model. But is it front wheel drive??

I think the person who designed the front end wasn't talking to the person who designed the rear end.

Damn that Ultradrive transmission. They were terribly unreliable. And the ABS caused a lot of headaches, too. And you can't get parts for the air ride suspension anymore. And yet, having said all of that... I want one of these cars!

A mechanic friend of mine got one of these in running condition, with decent interior, but in need of a partial repaint. But the owner had died and it wasn't worth doing the paperwork for a title via a mechanic's lien, so to the crusher it went.

Introducing The Lawrence welk of k cars...lol...

Bamós😍con la claudia

I never heard about that air suspension option! Did it make it to production??

the engine and transmission were designed and developed by Mitsubishi chrysler having a relationship with Mitsubishi since the early 70'sthey were a great combination.they later replaced the 3.3 with a spirited 3.8 but its competition Cadillac,had them beat with the 4.5 v8.a redesigned version of the not so good 4.1 that was introduced in the 1981 coupe deville marketed as the 4100 digital fuel injected v8.an engine that sounded good and looked great with its chrome valve covers but a real dog plagued with problems

Would think that is rare today,. Sounds like trim package was only difference from the New Yorker. Air ride sounds good, but Lincoln was a better choice.

I don’t like how all the K cars sag at the rear.

This is nothing more than rebranded New Yorker. This is the reverse of what Chrysler did in 1976 when they took the Imperial name off and stuck the New Yorker name on. In 1990, they did the reverse.

was this on a dvd? in the 80s?

Que paso manuel

There's little here that wasn't available on the New Yorker Landau

Ay nos bemós Manuel bamónos Marisol dédpidete de ella

Chrysler should have let the imperial name rest.this training video claims superior advancements, i watched this video to the end and i didn't see or hear any thing that supported there advancement claim.most of what they claim as superior has been available before this car was introduced.its a stretched version of the new Yorker/dynasty platform little effort went into distinguishing it from its sister cars.the only possible advancement claim to superior might be the transmission.

How can the trunk only be 16 cu ft? A new 200 has that same amount.

The car was supposed to come out 2 years earlier whiskey dynasty And new yorker but they had stretched the k car platform too far and the car literally would buy would buckle during testing. The former president of GM once laugand wrote in his book that once in a real world test the 2 rear doors flew opened after after passing over train tracks

Es mi carro lo bás a mirar cuando tengas él dineró

IMO if it had been progressively styled rather than yet another rehash of the 1975 Cadillac Seville it would've sold better. Not that Lincoln or Cadillac weren't selling cars like that, but they already existed and had largely amortized the tooling costs of their brougham-era offerings.

This kind of car doesn't age well with all those electronics does it?

“Technological superiority.” Yeah, a computer-controlled transmission that would give you so many headaches that you’re scrambling to trade it in on a Cadillac.

Amos ha comer por la calle Lázaro cárdenas

Horita yego en el carro

Bamós aracelí para con el manuel

Vamos mucho ala verga

Toma te lo traje de muchas partes

my right ear is lonely

147 horsepower for a car this large is nowhere near enough!! This car needed chrysler's 3.5 v6 that was developed for the LH platform, it had 215 horsepower which would have really helped this car!

I give it 48 hours before it literally falls apart

The driver in this video is saying to himself, "sniff...sniff...sniff...I smell Dodge Diplomat".

Looks like a dodge dynasty

This car was presented the same year as the Lexus LS. Not a chance

Huele ha gasolina ameriçana con bapor

It was comfortable, technology-forward, and interesting, though it could never beat the prestige of Cadillac or Lincoln, the sportiness of Mercedes or the technology of Lexus.

Weren't those V6 engines sourced by Mitsubishi? They were reliable and long lasting.

V-6 FWD never conviene me sorry...

The Imperial has style. I like the front with the concealed headlights. And it looks real roomy and comfy. Unfortunately its just equipped with a totally underpowered engine (and of course the built quality is far from great). Nothing for German Autobahns, where going 120+ mph is standard. I drive a 99 Cadillac STS and regularly go 155 mph with it. One of the nicest engines ever built in America. I'm sad that America doesn't have Freedom of Speed like in good old Germany...

The 1955 - 1973 Imperials were the finest post WWII fine cars made. This glorified K-Car was a joke. A sad end to one of America's finest fine cars.

The only good thing I can say about the 90' imperial is that it was one of the shiniest turds in the bowl for that year. Still it was just lipstick on a pig.

I imagine the writers really sweating it out over how to describe this K-car as "superior" over the newly introduced Lexus LS in the same segment.