While You Were Sleeping: The K-Car Alphabet, Oil Prices Falling and Belarus Has a New Parade Car
May 11th, 2015 6:05 PM
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Chrysler has built a lot of cars atop the K platform. BangShift has put together a handy guide to figure them all out.
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“American Honda estimates that more than 24,000 recalled airbag modules made by Takata are scattered among thousands of salvage yards and auto recyclers across the country.” - Oil falls below $65 on signs of U.S. shale oil revival (Reuters)
Could we be in for some cheap road trips this summer? Probably not. - Hongqi L5 parade car debuts in the Belarus Victory Day Parade (CarNewsChina)
Maybe I’m deficient, but I kind of like these. They’re like a modern day four-door T-bird droptop. - 12 Cylinders Of Fridolin Madness (SpeedHunters)
Where there’s will, there’s some crazed Swede trying to figure out a way. In this case, it’s a W12-powered postal van. - How Many Ways Can You Say “K”? The Entire Rundown Of Chrysler’s Hail Mary Platform (BangShift)
BangShift puts the letter K in front of every other letter in the alphabet. - AeroMobile Prototype Crashes in Slovakia (All Things Aero)
What’s interesting? The AeroMobile car has a parachute.
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The K-Car thing is interesting, I think. All those different platforms, bringing out year after year of relative mediocrity, combined with iffy build quality and Mitsubishi engines and crap transmissions. And let's not talk about AC compressors either. I was not aware that the Imperial and the New Yorker 5th were both longer - it always seemed like the Imperial was by itself at that length, to be "special." But maybe I've only seen regular NY's and not an NY5th, ever?
A Chinese-made parade car for white people called the Hong-qi. That's pretty funny.
W12, not V12. I like the Deutsche Post brake calipers.
The truth is, the K-cars were not all bad. They had some issues, but over the years they developed into some halfway decent cars. Think of the other smallish american offerings at the time.