Acclaim For an Acclaim
A few weeks ago I displayed a picture of a 1991 Plymouth Acclaim with a crappy paint job unironically bearing a bumper sticker reading, "MADE IN AMERICA . . . BY AMERICANS." Well, to be fair, not every car put out by Chrysler in the Iacocca era was a piece of sh** bought by "poor old dumb sh**s," as this photo demonstrates.
This is a maroon 1994 Plymouth Acclaim, in its last year of production (the year after Lee Iacocca retired), and it's still in near-mint condition after twelve years, well kept, without any peeling paint to speak of. Chrysler's quality had clearly improved in the years between Robert Eaton's assumption of the chairmanship and its merger with Daimler-Benz.
Inescapable, however, is that fact that the Plymouth Acclaim, like many late-model Chrysler products bearing that brand name, was actually a dull car. Plymouths got redundant to Dodges over the years, and the brand name was thus phased out by 2001.
Acclaim For an Acclaim
A few weeks ago I displayed a picture of a 1991 Plymouth Acclaim with a crappy paint job unironically bearing a bumper sticker reading, "MADE IN AMERICA . . . BY AMERICANS." Well, to be fair, not every car put out by Chrysler in the Iacocca era was a piece of sh** bought by "poor old dumb sh**s," as this photo demonstrates.
This is a maroon 1994 Plymouth Acclaim, in its last year of production (the year after Lee Iacocca retired), and it's still in near-mint condition after twelve years, well kept, without any peeling paint to speak of. Chrysler's quality had clearly improved in the years between Robert Eaton's assumption of the chairmanship and its merger with Daimler-Benz.
Inescapable, however, is that fact that the Plymouth Acclaim, like many late-model Chrysler products bearing that brand name, was actually a dull car. Plymouths got redundant to Dodges over the years, and the brand name was thus phased out by 2001.