1984: Ricardo Montalban Introduces Us To The Future

Murilee Martin
by Murilee Martin

The Chrysler E-Class— based on the K platform and built for the 1983 and 1984 model years only— wasn’t quite as opulent as the car we associate Señor Montalban with today, but it talked!


Montalban sold Chrysler products for nearly 15 years. Some had soft— not rich— Corinthian leather, some didn’t.

Going from a ’75 Cordoba to a woodie K-car wagon? ¡Dios Mio!

Murilee Martin
Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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  • Athos Nobile Athos Nobile on Oct 25, 2012

    "Going from a ’75 Cordoba to a woodie K-car wagon? ¡Dios Mio!" The ¡Dios Mío! part was classy. Embarrassingly, I forgot the ASCII sequence for this character: ¡

  • Loki993 Loki993 on Oct 26, 2012

    What no fine Corinthian leather?

  • Joe This is called a man in the middle attack and has been around for years. You can fall for this in a Starbucks as easily as when you’re charging your car. Nothing new here…
  • AZFelix Hilux technical, preferably with a swivel mount.
  • ToolGuy This is the kind of thing you get when you give people faster internet.
  • ToolGuy North America is already the greatest country on the planet, and I have learned to be careful about what I wish for in terms of making changes. I mean, if Greenland wants to buy JDM vehicles, isn't that for the Danes to decide?
  • ToolGuy Once again my home did not catch on fire and my fire extinguisher(s) stayed in the closet, unused. I guess I threw my money away on fire extinguishers.(And by fire extinguishers I mean nuclear missiles.)
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