In 1979, I bought the wife a new left-over 1978 Cadillac Seville (so said the saleman). It was really a dealer demo with 2,800 miles. Never the less, the medium brown saddle leather interior with the plush Cadillac carpet was as comfortable as it was stunning just to look at. The exterior was a real head turner, Blackwatch Poly Green Metallic (looked black at nite) with a thick clear coat, Cadillac stainless steel wire wheel covers and no vinyl top, all paint like the Elegante, and a smooth as silk rear wheel drive Fuel Injected 350 ci motor. Hands down, the most beautiful, comfortable car we ever owned. I don't need to go into deatail about the modern Toyota with the rock hard leather interior we now drive. You described it perfectly. Cheers!

@@seymourscagnetti1413 you painted a picture in my mind of the perfection of yesteryear. It’s truly a sad state what we have to settle for these days.

The car mag critics ding any attempt to bring back these types of cars. A smooth & soft ride to them is now "sloppy" and "poor handling". No, I don't drive 60 MPG on 45 degree sharp curves. The road sign says to drive 25 MPH so that's what I do. Nor do I zig zag between red cones on the daily drive. Some body roll is OK. It's become negative points on the car's scorecard. Basically the American cars and critics have been taken over by European roads. European roads don't exist in the US ... except maybe old downtown Boston, LOL! Tell the car mag critics they need to move to Europe and let us be.

So true.

It was a very reliable car, & great on gas.

Thanks. Yes, funny how tastes change!

Not a real imperial!

@@walterhenderson2155 Other than the fact that it is based on the K car platform (stretched 5”), why is not an Imperial?

@@whammond511 you answered the question. An Imperial implies something far greater than a K-Car. It's a vamped up Plymouth Reliant.

"better looking than nearly everything today"? Calm down Barbara.

@@401Impala No, he’s right! 95% of the cars today look like trash!!

@@whammond511 Yea, no.

True about Imperial (automobile): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJ14appzy9_bg4k.html

Thank you! I am with you. The style is rich!

Yes the extra length really brings this out.

Iacocca wasn't as great as everyone thinks. If he had been he would have ordered a new, larger chassis to replace the Fifth Avenue/Diplomat rather than just stretching the "K"

@@Pisti846 was keeping the cost down and profits up. He did save the company you can't argue that

Yep, basically a dressed up Dodge Dynasty.

It's narrow for a full-sized car, but without the center hump for the driveshaft and differential, the seats were better contoured for 3 across than those on a number of bigger cars, especially GM cars. And the legroom is amazing for a car this size. Not bad for a K car, not bad at all.

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Any car that isn’t used isn’t worth owning in my opinion. If I had that car I’d drive every week!

what's the use in owning a car if you never drive it lol

Thank you for your comment. I am with you…I totally agree!

Thanks for your comment. I learned something from you… I always wondered about that sound and now I know!

@@markeversonclassiccars Cool. Yeah. They used those fuel pumps in everything from Caravans, to New Yorkers. I feel like the smaller cars back then had a different pump, though.

You are right, very quickly!

when based on a a K-car , what would you expect? It looks as if it belonged in 1985 or earlier.

@@wade998 It was a bit dated, but it was pretty, though. My father would have been glad to have one of those cars.

I can see why. The thing is so dated looking it isn't funny

The dying breed fake malaise pseudo k car base engineering and make it seem like it was a competitor for large Cadillacs and Lincoln's this was definitely not the imperial models of yesteryear. This car was scratched and lengthened prom basically a front wheel drive k car Chrysler New Yorker given a Mitsubishi V6 engine a 3 liter v6 with 141 horsepower and enough fake chrome and interior but velour padding to kill off a herd of cattle iacocca really tried to take his taco Bell menu and jazz it up to really make it seem more than what it really actually was. I will say one thing that the cars and incredibly excellent shape almost new working and find one of these with just 15,000 miles on it with as good a shape that it's in his just truly amazing I will give this card that at least.

@@rodferguson3515 A"velour" interior, which is non existent on this car Im confident didnt come from one cow let alone a herd of them. The chrome is real but other than that im with you.

If it had an analog dash, then it was very likely a New Yorker Fifth Avenue. Imperial came with standard digital guages.

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My Dad was WW2 combat wounded vet, on his way to Japan when the war ended. I had test drove a Renault Alliance. He told me I could buy a German car or Japanese car, but please don't buy a French car! I asked "weren't the French our allies?" he said no! I wished I would have had him explain this better.

Oh yes, my father was a WWII veteran - on the ground in Europe, and he constantly complained about the conversion to front wheel drive in the 80's. I purchased a Chrysler Laser coupe in 84 and he chewed me out. I asked him what was wrong with front wheel drive, an his response was "which ever way you point them... that's where they go!" I still don't know why that's bad, but bless his and every other WWII vet that helped defeat Hitler.

They don't know just by making cars front wheel drive they suffer less wheel horsepower loss through moving components. Rear wheel drive also has it's limits on power, awd is superior.

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That may be a bit of an overstatement.

It's not really a yacht. Maybe a dinghy, by Imperial standards.

Right? Interesting-colored cars are no longer!

Grey, silver, black, white, once in a while red.

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A lot of us hated cars like that. I actually had a soft spot for cars like that. But a lot of us went from preferring compact cars to HUGE SUVS when we got older and had more money, especially those with families.

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Right? Its the same one offered in the minivan. It isn't ugly but a telescopic wheel would've been nicer

AIRBAG, YA IDJITS

@@joelombardi7283 They could have come up with a better looking steering wheel for their top of the line car instead of using one that looked like it came out of a Plymouth Acclaim. It ruins the interior of the car for me.

@@charlesmcginness7214 AIR BAG .

Joe said it. Every car with an airbag at this time had a somewhat "less exotic" steering wheel... even Cadillac.

It was the Chrysler Imperial, it was the Imperial! It was made by Chrysler but it was its own line in the Chrysler family.

What about The New Yorker?

The New Yorker 5th Ave. became Chrysler’s top of the line after they discontinued the Imperial.

@Martin Wagner - re: "Where do you find a car like this?" Whatever the answer is, what difference would the answer make? Obviously, the owner kept the car in a garage, with limited driving.

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The new yorkers the dynastys was all the same just the imperial was supposed to have been the more top of the line model during that time

@@JackVegetables18 yes indeed. My back doors weren’t stretched with the extra smaller window like later New Yorkers and Imperials but I did have a landau roof over the back quarter of the roof.

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