Thanks for watching! A couple of editor notes: First, Volare. Yes, I know I mispronounced it! Many of you have pointed that out, but I swear to you those cars were so rare in my teenage years I always heard it pronounced "Vo-lare", not "Vo-lar-e". And yes, I've NOW heard the song! I apologize for getting that so very wrong. Second, the Duster. Nope, I didn't mention it. But I wish I could go add it back in, I had no idea it would be such a flash-point. As a 2 door version of the Valiant, while I know it looked good and was popular, I didn't know it missing would attract such a passionate response! My apologizes! Finally, for anyone claiming 'bias'... WTH? In my life Plymouth was the cheaper version of Dodge, following their cars with decontented value pricing models. There's no bias here, and I tried to present a fair brief history of a brand that was 'done wrong' by the end.

The first car I bought was a new 1970 Plymouth Duster. I drove it three years until I graduated college. I liked and trusted the car so much I sold it to my mother in law. I bought about 20 new cars before I retired. The Duster is one of only three I can say I wish I had kept.

Two things: it is pronounced Vo Lar Ray, not Vo Lar. Second you skipped the original Duster two door series, These were Plymouth only models and so popular, that Chrysler had to quickly badge engineer the Dodge Demon (later the Dart Sport) for Dodge dealers, a rare case of Plymouth beating Dodge to the market. True story my father bought a 71 Dodge Demon, with a comic demon logo, and my mom made him take it back to the dealer to get the logo removed. Needless to say she did not live long enough to see the resurrection of the Demon logo on Dodge vehicles.

If Plymouth quality had not fallen over time, it might still be alive today. A 1960 Fury Commando was like a role model.

I love the older Plymouths before they lost their identity. I was born in '68 and came home from the hospital in a new '68 Fury III 2 door hardtop. Loved that car when I was a little tyke. Keep up the great work Jon!

As an owner of an original 1919 Maxwell, I'm overjoyed that you mentioned the Maxwell Motor Company. One of their CEOs, Walter Flanders, was a master of factory operations & efficiency. His life story is fascinating.

Thanks for a great video! Plymouth is special to me as our family represented 3 of the 1.1 million Reliants sold…we had an ‘84 sedan, ‘85 wagon, and ‘87 LE sedan. Although slow and hardly exciting, they were all sturdy, simple, and dependable cars that served my family for nearly a decade each.

My aunt & uncle in coastal Mississippi had a blue 67 Valiant sedan (slant 6, 3 on the tree), later traded it for a new brown 73 Gold Duster (Six, TorqueFlite). I rode with my cousins in that car many times. Finally, the Dennis Weaver movie "Duel", starring an orange Valiant sedan and an evil Peterbilt, is one of my favorite thrillers!

My favorite Plymouths have to be the Roadrunner, Superbird, Fury, GTX, Duster, and Cuda.

Gads, the first generation Duster and the Road Runner were fantastic cars.

Cool video presentation, going back in time . My favorite Plymouth were the Fury , Satillight and Volare even though they had issues in the early years but improved after 1977 .

Sir, very good video. A couple things to note. The song Volare, enfisous on the E was part of every Volare commercial sung by the man that made the song famous. The Aspen, Volare did have the most recalls, but G M. couldn't be out done, and they had far more with the introduction of the X body's in the 1980 model year, also G.M. should have spent more time before they brought then to market. Weather it was the G.M. brand Oldsmobile, or later Mercury as part of Ford, with the onslaught of foreign competition the big three as we called them, just couldn't support multiple brands and with each case starved them for product, before the end. When Walter P. Chrysler created Plymouth, it was so he had an entry level car to go up against Ford and Chevrolet, with a list on advanced features for the day at a similar price. It did its job for a lot of years. Frankly when you looked at all Chrysler products, they were never that great. At times they excelled at design and 1950s-1970s powertrains, other than that, they were a distant third choice. I owned a Dodge Intrepid, junk engine, and a transmission that you had to baby so it wouldn't turn to junk. The only good thing about it was that it lead me to buy a Toyota Camry. Lasted 297,000 miles and 17 1/2 years Think about a video that profiles Mr. Chrysler, a very smart and hard working man, ran Buick at the beginning, of its srart. Much Success.

1981 K Cars had an optional Mitsubishi 2.6 liter four cylinder (with Mitusbishi patent 'Silent Shafts")

When I was in College in the early 70's I bought an old Plymouth Valiant with that famous reliable slant 6 engine with a 3 on the tree. Being from Minnesota it had a little rust but I must say that famous slant 6 known for it's reliability was absolutely a trustworthy vehicle ! The slant 6 which was also on the Chrysler Dodge Darts was an incredible durable reliable engine and sticks with me to this day ! I'm 67 and have nothing but good things to say about that reliable slant 6 ! One last comment, I drove for Kato Cab in Mankato Mn when I first started College. Everyone wanted to drive their one cab which was a Plymouth Fury with the 318 V8 ! That was another phenomenal engine known for it's power and reliability ! Thank you

You should read on the story of the performance of Plymouth, the Road Runners, The Super Birds, the Cuda, the Demons, the Duster, The Savoy Super Stock, The GTX, The Fury. After reading on all those the great performance car, Plymouth in the end was only a shadow

I took my driving test in my grandfather's 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring. It was one of the best-driving cars I've ever driven. It's also the only Plymouth I've ever driven, even counting test drives.

10:16: My first new car was a 1985 Plymouth Horizon. It was cheap reliable transportation for this new college graduate getting my first job. I kept it for about five years. My biggest memory was cranking that little 1.6 liter engine up to 90 MPH on the Pennsylvania Turnpike running late and rushing to get to a certification training session.

I love Plymouth, I learned to drive on a 1972 Plymouth Duster, three speed manual, slant six. I wish a still kept that car.

I kind of wish Plymouth had stuck around a few more years to get in on the retro styled muscle cars that Dodge started making in 2006. Can you imagine how cool a 2010 Plum Crazy Plymouth Barracuda Hemi would have been? I think it could have blown out the Charger/Challenger in sales if the styling cues were on point.

I have owned 4 Plymouths. Two Barracudas, 67 & 68, a 97 Neon, and the one I still have, a 71 road runner. I have loved each of them. Mopar or no car!

Plymouth Neon was the 1st compact car to have dual front air bags. The CEO of Honda when interviewed, said it was the Plymouth Neon which forced their hand to also offer dual front air bags

My late dad owned 4 Plymouths … I remember 3 of them . They were pretty rugged cars .

The Valiant was simultaneously built in Australia from the 60s through to the early 1980s. By the 70s it had become a sleek car after the boxy VC model which was carried on in the US. When GM Holden downsized its large HK model adopting the German Opel rebadged Holden, but lost out to fleet sales as Ford (Falcon) continued as a large sedan. Had Chrysler Australia continued the Valiant it may have survived in Australia as the Valiant was also popular with fleet operators. Note that in Australia and NZ the Valiant was always considered "full size" and the Slant 6 was dropped with the VH model where all engines offered were hemis.

The Plymouth Acclaim is probably the most reliable vehicle that Plymouth ever produced.

Interesting that these brands like Plymouth, Olds, Pontiac etc were relevant enough to me that I remember almost all the cars in the videos, but not relevant enough that I actually knew they no longer existed.

The first new car my family bought was a '65 Plymouth Fury I two door post with the slant 6 and three on the tree. One morning, the beautiful but doctored up to sell '57 Fairlane we had wouldn't start so mom and dad walked hand in hand to Town and Country Chrysler/Plymouth on 12 Mile Road in Berkley, Michigan and came back with that car.

At 11:25 in the video: The Mitsubishi built 2.6 Liter engine option for the K-Cars was a four cylinder engine (not six). It was exceptionally smooth for a big four being the first high volume mainstream four to feature twin balance shafts to reduce vibration.

My grandpa had a Plymouth Reliant Sedan he drove that car forever. We haven't had a plymouth in over 20 years now. Since I have got my license and bought cars I have had Dodge Ram and Chrysler before I abandoned them all and went to Ford.

Good job with this series. Keep at it.

Plymouth has always been my favorite division of Chrysler because it IS the no-nonsense division. Now when I started messing around with Plymouth in the 80s we were buying late 60s and early 70s Plymouth like the Duster, Baracuda, Valiant, Satellite, Fury.... We liked the way they weren't weighted down with fluff. They were more raw than Dodge.

Plymouth was a wonderful brand, the slant 6 was the best engine ever.

You know your brand is old when the popularity of twine is involved.

Roadrunner, GTX, Barracuda, Duster, Fury sounds great to me.

I have owned my '69 Road Runner now for going on 22 years. Of course there are brands that could put it to the test but to me it's the style, performance, and history.

68-69 Road Runner Bad ass 383 and competition auto shifter.One of the greatest Plymouths.

in my younger days all I would buy were Plymouths, still hold them with high regards.learnd how to drive on a Duster, I preferred them. Over even the Dodges.

Jon Another mistake to note from your video is when you mentioned the two engines. Firstly, the 2.2 "is" a 4cyl and the 2.6 Mitsubishi is "also" a 4cyl and not a 6cyl as you stated. Love the videos!

Good stuff

good reporting

I would love to a history of AMC,Studebaker and Packard too!!

I almost bought a 1997 Breeze after considering a Chrysler Sebring convertible. Wish I'd gotten the Breeze instead of the 1997 Ford Taurus I ended up with. I think the Breeze would've given me less woes than that Taurus did over time. Candyapple Red with Camel (beige) cloth seats, it was a really pretty car and the bigger 2.4 liter 4 cylinder had plenty of oomph with the automatic, unlike the base 2.0 L four.

From about 1970 on, the Fury/Gran Fury model was pretty much to Plymouth what the 1980s-on Crown Victoria was to Ford: primarily fleet cars (usually police cars), with the occasional "old-people" sale thrown in for good measure.

I remember Plymouth only has a company that made awesome engines but terribly built cars. I think you captured that well in your videos. Thank you 😊

As noted below, it is prononced Vo Lar Ray!

Jon, again, nice content. My all time favorite muscle car is the '67 Plymouth Satellite GTX, however, I couldn't remember ever owning a Plymouth, until I recollected a '74 Valiant that I purchased for $500 dollars back in the early 90s. I was living in Albuquerque, NM at the time, and I drove up to Los Alamos, NM to purchase it from a one owner family. Luckily it was "glowing." LOL! (Crickets) Huh, tough crowd. You know, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, atomic bomb? Any who, It was in great shape, and I really liked the look of it, but the best words to describe that car were "stodgy and anemic." Interesting enough, I do remembered back in the mid-80s, the singer, Tina Turner, doing those Plymouth Acclaim commercials. I seriously doubt she "ever" drove a Plymouth, even once. 😆 Hahaha!

I think Plymouth could have worked as the low cost mark had Chrysler moved dodge over to being the performance brand that it's become today. Also the idea of the prowler and PT being "halo" cars of a sort for a reborn Plymouth is an interesting idea...if the brand hadn't just been budget Dodge models for the past 30 years at that point.

I have a '33 108 inc PC. The 112 inch frame was PCX. The PC wasn't long enough to have side mounted spares (mine has two) so the front axle was moved forwards. The doors just miss the tyres!

I was never a fan of any Chrysler product. How about the movie Christine? 70s Plymouth Duster was pretty cool

The Omni/Horizon was on sale until 1990 not 1987.

1989 Plymouth Acclaim also had a 2.5 turbo engine option.

Just realized, I've owned and driven several Dodge and Chrysler products, but I don't recall ever driving or owning a Plymouth.

The 2.6 liter Mitsubishi "Hemi" engine was a four cylinder engine, not a six cylinder. It was heresy! I'll agree with that.

I think that the 1967 plymouth fury is one of the most beautiful cars designed. We had 2 plymouth reliants and several dodges and chryslers. My last was a 2006 charger. Switch to GM cars for the last 10 years.

I had a '75 Duster: 225 slant six, three on the tree, no power steering or breaks, and I loved it! How could you skip the Dostpan?

The Plymouth Horizon actually lasted until 1990, not 1987. We should have gotten the Accolade(based on the LH platform). The Eagle Vision was a good car but had really no identity.

Saab might be a great video. Though I realy enjoy this type of video, keep it up!

A great job on a marque that few people love. I remember how absolutely bullet-proof the Chrysler Corp. cars of the 1940's were. My parent's first new car was a 1948 Dodge. Many of our friends had Plymouths, DeSotos and Chryslers of that year. All were super tough, if a bit slow. Unfortunately Plymouth couldn't build a quality body after 1956. Occasionally well styled and often a master of drive train superiority, Plymouths were not very solid feeling cars. Several Plymouths appealed to me: 1948, 1953/54, 1960 full size, 1964 entire line, 1967/68/69 Barracuda, any Reliant. Your accuracy is appreciated! One "minor" quibble: the compact that replaced the Valiant from 1976 through 1980 was pronounced VO LAR E. 😊

the Mitsu 2.6 l was a 4 cyl, not a 6. my mum had one, red 4 door that she hated and replaced with a Dodge Daytona(fwd) with the 5 speed and 2 doors.

BTW - i enjoy your videos..thank you 😊

Plymouth was supposedly the Chrysler division that would compete with Chevy and Ford. But even back in the 1990's, when I was just a kid, I always thought Dodge served that role. Plymouth, to me back then, was the "why are you even here?" division as a result. It seems that by 2001, the right people agreed with me. The Plymouth Prowler didn't exactly help. Why was THAT even here? D:

Volair? Is that like Corvair? I never knew Plymouth produced anything like that.

I for one do not miss Plymouth. They were great in the 60's but since then... not so much.

The 'merger' with Daimler was just odd - and in hindsight, a huge mistake for Chrysler...Plymouth was much like Oldsmobile - looking for a new identity...

Had a Plymouth Fury lol. Loved it

When Merecedes owned Chrysler, they gave Chrysler their old platforms and a tight budget, so Chrysler made cars cheaply. They decided to kill Plymouth in 2000 due to poor sales. Plymouth didn't have any SUVs, just rebadged Dodge and the Plymouth Prowler. Also, since Plymouth part of the Chrysler dealer, it didn't close any Chrysler dealers. Plymouth suffered from poor quality and reliability. Chrysler since brought back the Voyager nameplate and used it as the Chrysler Voyager minivan.

Bring Plymouth back. Let’s see how Stellantis handles it. I’ve always wanted a revamped but no electric Prowler and the Cuda back as a cheaper Challenger and the Grand Fury as a cheaper Charger or Alfa Romeo and even the Trailduster and Neon back.

At 5:10 the car is label as 53 however it is 54. My 1st car was 54 Belvedere.

I drove a lot of the Plymouth cars over the years. In 1974 I bought my first car a 1965 Chevy Chevelle. Stopped at a stop sign I was rear ended by a florist van and shoved into traffic traveling 30 MPH. That poor Chevelle was done. After the insurance settlement my father hauls me to the Chrysler Plymouth dear in a nearby town. I had my eyes all set on a red 1974 Plymouth Duster with the slant six. My father had other ideas and walked over to the back side of the lot and there was a puke green brand new 1973 Plymouth Duster 340, now it time for my father negotiate and I drove out with the Duster 340. I kept that car for the next 30 years and sold it in 2004 because a relative offered way more than I dream of. Because the 340 was a garage kept original car with 23,000 when I sold it. It was fairly obvious I did not drive it much and always had back up cars. The next 5 cars I owned were all Plymouth Duster in various ages. One of the more interesting ones was the 1976 Plymouth Feather Duster which had the mighty slant six, aluminum hood, deck lid and bumpers giving me 30 MPG. I really was stuck on the old Valiant/Duster cars. I also had a Plymouth Scamp for a while in the early 1980's with the 318. As the 1990's came the Plymouth Duster were getting harder to find and I eventually got a new Plymouth Acclaim V6 and with the 3 speed automatic. Now that Acclaim was the longest lasting daily driver I ever owned. I drove that on a daily commute or 110 miles for the next 18 years and when I finally called the junkyard for it that car had 559,000 miles. I never cared that the Plymouth brand were decontented Dodges in the later years by decontented they were the best that Chrysler had as getting rid of the gimmicks and extras they were made more reliable and durable.

I want a Prowler so bad, I loved it ever since I saw the original concept car. I know it's kinda crap, but I don't care, I like the design and the nostalgia.

A "Far Too Brief History of Plymouth" is all too correct as the narrator neglected to mention no less than a dozen years of memorable Plymouth cars (1940-1952). This included the popular post war Plymouths, the boxy looking Plymouths that were introduced in 1949 of which our family owned one for several years and looked very similar to all the other MOPAR offerings that year, and finally the restyled '51 and '52 models which saw the introduction of a new line-up of names, those being the Cranbrook, Cambridge, & Concord, which lasted only three years as they were soon replaced by borrowing the names of three swanky New York hotels: the Belvedere, Savoy, and Plaza.

My second car was a '79 dodge diplomat - terrible quality, but a bullet- proof motor ( 225 'Super-Six')..had lifelong issues with hard starting and rough idle..drove it for 6+ years though, and it got me from point a to b..😅

This series is your best please do mercury.

My Dad had Plymouths here in Australia 🇦🇺 we Had Dodges flat head six’s . Australian Chargers big block Dodges an many Valiants of all styles an power plants you name it we had it . Thank God for MOPAR . You can keep your brand x rubbish . MOPAR had the best motor s an auto box and could put brand X to shame .

Another unique thing to the Neon and I think also the Breeze is Chrysler engineered the car to where if you needed to change the battery then the front tire on the drivers side had to come off.

If the Prowler had a powerful v-8 and manual stick. :(

I’m enjoying your videos, how about International pickup and SUV?

My 1966 Barracuda had a 273 V8.

My first car was an 83 Reliant....it would run forever but unfortunately it was claimed by the timworm ..

I really liked the Sailboat brand over Dodge I had a stratus but would rather had a breeze I loved the Gran Fury rite up to the last production year and I would have taken a Trailduster over RamCharger naturally I liked the full size Voyager with wide tailgate over Dodge B Series

Awesome, informative video, Jon...as are all of your "brief history" productions. Unlike you, though, I really miss Mercury and Pontiac...Plymouth, not so much. I do however, love the '69 & '70 Road Runner (yeah, I know the '68 Road Runner was nearly identical to the '69, but I didn't care for the grille or taillights of the '68), as well as the '68 Fury. I was also impressed by the clean lines of the '74 Fury which wore its 5MPH bumpers MUCH better than did its Ford and Chevy counterparts of the same year. Except for the '56 thru '58 models, Plymouth had mostly ho-hum styling (IMO), but their '61 full-size models (Fury, Belvedere & Savoy) truly gave new meaning to the word 'hideous'...and Dodge's full-size models for '61 weren't much better. I'm guessing that Plymouth and Dodge designers might have been doing some heavy drugs at the start of the 60's...

In a way Plymouth is alot like Pontiac in the sense that their most exciting and memorable cars were from the late 50s to the early 70s , Think back to the days of the sport Furys, early to mid 60s s/s 413sand 426 wedges. Cudas and Barracudas All the big engined b bodies which include the Road Runner and GTX even the Duster 340s, and it's a well known fact that Richard Petty won 200 nascar races but understand this of those wins over half of them were behind the wheel of those Petty Blue Plymouths!.The real reason why Plymouth became such a generic Chrysler was beacuse Chrysler never set up a separate line up of dealerships to sell only Plymouths!!!!.

Isn't it true that a number of Ford Desiners moved to Chrysler and that' why for awhile Chrysler (Plymouth) L and ked a lot like 'Fords'... ir: Plymoth Sport Fury grill looks a lot like the FORD Galaxie 500 grill ?1965 EXCELLENT vidoes, Jon

The Omni and Horizon lasted until 1990.

The Barracuda, most people will remember a 271 cu in but I think nobody will remember the car with its "4.5 liter". Sorry, just a small nitpick in an otherwise solid presentation. Thumbs up anyway and a thank you.

Hahaha!! Vo Lay, where did this come from. The plymouth GTX and the Dodge Challenger were 2 of the most popular muscle cars ever not to mention the Barracuda.

Mr Maxwell suddenly disappeared before Walter Chrysler took over his company!

We had a ‘72 Plymouth Duster. It had rust problems within the first year The slant 6 was great but rush and poor workmanship had us selling in with three year. Very disappointing!

3:03 The name Plymouth was primarily intended to convey puritanical values of thrift and practicality. It was inspired by the beliefs of the settlers who came here in 1620 - hard-working, practical, overcoming adversity.

Also, I never knew anyone (Including my dad) who ever complained about quality, except, of course, bodies prone to rusting!

Might be worth mentioning that Chrysler paid off their handout EARLY, which I don't think was ever done by anyone else again??

I have not ever seen one Plymouth on the road.

A local TV station has started showing old episodes of Highway Patrol and I notice every episode several different old Dodge, Chrysler, or Plymouth cars that are used in every episode! I don't care what anyone say's, I think the Prowler is really cool looking. I would have to swap out that V-6 for at least a small block V-8 though!🤤🤤

Also can you consider a video on the Toyota FJ Cruiser. 🙂

Like the current day Dodge Charger/Challenger revival, i would have loved to see a modern GTX or Roadrunner

Who looks at any car from 1998 and say to themselves “ gee I sure miss the styling and performance of the nineties cars”. Boring Plymouth like the 68,69,70 Road Runners, 68 Hemi Cuda, 70 440/ 6 Barrel Cuda, 340 Duster,Super Bird,pistol grip, high impact colors, Dana 60, 833 A 4 speed, Shaker Hood and that’s just the equipment. Drivers include Don Garlits, Sox and Martin, Prudome, Richard Petty and so many others. 68 Dart and Barracuda have their own SS/AA drag strip class and of course Top Fuel. Probably the highest re-sale at auction along with Dodge of any muscle car and don’t forget about film making.

The Laser wasn't offered with AWD, so the Talon was way cooler.

The song was, and the car was; the Volaré. The acute accent é is pronounced 'ay'. This was intrinsic to its marketing. Maybe going forward it would be good research to listen to commercials before you record your audio. Anyone who was there remember it and the commercials well and nobody pronounced it 'vo-lare' as you did. Great series, just this one glaring item in this video kind of distracts from the overall quality. Best wishes for the channel!

I was never certain if Plymouth was supposed to be an economy car company or a sports and performance company. Those are two divergent markets.

I think you really need to redo this video to correct the Volaré pronunciation, the omission of the Duster, and to correct the history of the Valiant as it was introduced as it's own brand in 1960, then being folded into Plymouth. It did so well that Dodge demanded their own version, introduced as the Lancer, which morphed into the A-body Dart.

Thanks!!.. I would love to see a history of Mercury!!