With the cash infusion, the Chrysler
K Car platform came to be and the Dodge Aries was introduced.
However, the real saving grace of
the K Car platform was the Dodge Caravan minivan.
With this cash infusion, the Chrysler
K Car platform came to be and the Dodge Caravan minivan was introduced.
Not exact matches
This new approach begins from the bottom - up, with a new chassis — the Global Architecture
K (GA -
K)
platform — underpinning the 2019 ES, giving the
car a wider track, longer wheelbase and lower, more aggressive stance than the outgoing
car.
Venza was developed on the
platform Toyota
K, known on such models as Camry, Highlander, Sienna, Avalon, Lexus ES and other popular
cars.
This
car uses Toyota
K platform known for the following
cars: Toyota Camry, Avalon, Highlander, Sienna, Venza, Lexus RX, and others.
There were additional features standard on the Super-
k that were optional or just not available on the basic
K -
car platforms.
Dodge 400 was given an optional «Roadability» package, which included more performance oriented suspension components, similar to the 600ES sedan, which was Dodge's version of the new - for - 1983 E-body
platform - which was also based upon the
K -
car chassis, only stretched about 10 inches.
Like most Chrysler
cars at that time, they were based on a stretched
K (E)
platform.
In October 1982, Motor Trend wrote that the 1984 «Chrysler G - 24» would have four bucket seats, be a hatchback, and stand on the
K -
car platform but share no body panels with any other Chrysler product.
The
K -
car platform was eminently flexible, and it was stretched, compressed, and reconfigured into the famed minivan, a 0 -60-in-5.8 Spirit R / T sedan, and even the Chrysler Town & Country wagon.
Worldwide, GM manufactured and marketed more than 7 million [1] T -
cars — rebadged variants using the T
platform — including the Pontiac Acadian in Canada, Pontiac T1000 / 1000 in the United States (1981 - 1987),
K - 180 in Argentina, Vauxhall Chevette, Opel Kadett, Isuzu Gemini, Holden Gemini, and as a coupe utility (pickup), the Chevy 500.
Built on the new Global Architecture
K Platform, the ES is still a front - wheel drive
car but it is stiffer, bigger, lower and more dynamic looking than previous ES models, with high - tensile steel keeping weight in check, multi-link rear suspension, a V - Brace for stiffness and even adaptive damping on the Sport models.
The other was an all new
K -
car based New Yorker, which used the front - wheel drive Chrysler E
platform, the beginning of the extended
K -
car years.