Dodge was VERY different in the '90s compared to how they are today

As a kid growing up throughout the '90s I remember how cool the '94 Dodge Ram looked when it hit the streets along with the '97 Dakota. Every other pickup was still boxy till the late '90s and the Viper was unforgettably the coolest. Especially the striped GTS. Everything else from Dodge was just another car.

I’m very sympathetic to Dodge. They’d pulled themselves out of late 1970s and early 1980s bankruptcy. They changed the automotive landscape with both the K cars and the minivan. They dealt with the aftermath of a lot of poor 1970s market projections and product miscues, and they kept fighting to climb out from the shadow (pardon the pun) of the economically salvational universe of K car possibilities and explicit derivatives. They redefined the truck market in the 1990s and made some really interesting products. Nothing but respect.

I got the chance to drive a 91 Spirit R/T about 12 years ago. Was amazing how quick that thing was for the time period and it looked about as rental car boring as you could get!

Dodge's parent company Chrysler was owned by Mercedes in the early 2000s. Then Fiat bought Chrysler in the 2010s and now owned by Stellantis. The future of the Dodge brand is unknown and if they don't do well, Stellantis could cancel the Dodge brand

The Differences between the Concorde, 300M and LHS were the length and who they were marketed to, the Concorde basically replaced the Newport as the entry level full size model with first gens having a length between 202.8 in for 92-94 and 201.5in for 94-97. Second gen had a length of 209.1in for 98-01. The 300M / Eagle vision were supposed to court the import buying crowd because of the sporter vehicle and it being exported to Europe, with a length of 197.8 in . And finally the LHS/ New Yorker being the top of the line flagship with all options as standard feature plus only being offered with 3.5v6 and the length of 207.4 for 94-97 and 207.7 in for 99-01

I love the Speak and Spell “Your keys are in the ignition K E Y spells key.”

My grandfather worked for Chrysler during the 80s and was retired in the 90s. However, we had his family discount. At least one person in my family owned one of the vehicles featured and mentioned here in at least one version at some time. The New Yorker and the Avenger are the only two that stand out as ones someone in my family didn't own. Spirit, Shadow, Charger, Intrepid (gen 1&2), Dodge Caravan, Eagle Premiere and Eagle Summit, Dodge Stratus and maybe something else.

I still own a 1990 Daytona ES V6 with the 5 speed. This was and is still my favorite 80s Chrysler but I really loved about all of them! I so wanted a turbo but at the time the V6 was what I came across. It was a hoot to drive with the 5 speed and remains to this day a fun car. I've owned it for 23 years, second owner, bought it in Fairbanks, Alaska when i lived there. It has 101K miles on it, 44K of those I drove, its been all over, up and down the Alaska highway a couple times, as far south as California and as far north as the Arctic Circle, a great car. The Chrysler turbos were good fun at a good price and had a bunch of variations over the years. I remember being in love with the mid 80s Dodge 600 turbo sedan...a car with a pillow seat interior in red velour your gram would love but powered by a punchy 2.2L turbo! How weird/ cool! All that said, I have owned a 1990 Plymouth Sundance RS (non turbo) new in 1990; a 1985 Chrysler Laser XE turbo that I bought cheap in 2003 with 165K miles on it. It didn't last that much longer but 165K miles on a Laser with all that electronic stuff is respectable.

My mom had either a 93 or 95 Spirit and LOVED it. Had it until probably 2002 and I don't remember having a lot of trouble with it. Don't see many of them on the road anymore.

The Shelby Daytona 2.2T and Spirit R/T were awesome sleepers. My grandma had a LeBaron that talked. "your door is ajar". I loved it as a kid. I think the Daytona got ugly with the facelift. They looked best with the pop up headlights.

In a decade that generally stunk stylistically and had a lot of cars that looked a lot cheaper than they were, Dodge really wasn't very bad. It did have some nice-looking cars - sort of plasticky, but not too bad. I think Dodge styling was probably in the upper third of cars being sold. Don't know about reliability and repairs, though.

Chrysler's models were price based Concorde -Low price volume model LHS - Mid price luxury model 300M - High end sport/luxury model Before the 300M, the New Yorker was the mid price model and LHS was the high end model

1980s Daytona was a sharp looking car. Even for me.. that only loves European cars. That IROC did 150mph. My girlfriend had a Spirit LE, While I was driving a 1988 Alfa Spider Veloce, her car was faster, but driving in a beautiful convertible, a Boring sedan was.. well economical. Being in college. We had a great time! Great video!

I had a friend in school when the Dodge Avenger was around in the late 90s. I remember always loving the car and thinking they were better than the Chevy’s my mom always had when I was growing up.

My girlfriend in high school had an rt intrepid and I had an all black lhs and both cars were really quick and floaty but mine was plagued with electrical issues where the wipers would come on and trunk would pop while car was off and parked I was able to trade it in for a Dodge Dakota rt and never looked back but I miss this era of cars for sure

I had an 89 Sprit ES White, great car but the v6 from mitsubishi had head gasket issues and the "ultra drive" 4spd overdrive auto trans had its issues as well.

It's a shame Chrysler didn't follow through with the Intrepid and it's sister cars. They truly had sharp body designs but it all went south just before the Mercedes partnership and after that it was done.

A friend of mine had a Shelby Daytona in the 90's and it was pretty quick. My other friend had a Plymouth Sundance 2.2 with turbo, and it was quick too but did not handle nearly as good as the Daytona.

In 95 I needed to get a new car . My parents sent me to see one of their friends at the Toyota dealership . He was trying to get me to buy a bright purple Eagle summit . He kept going on about how great it was , I think they just couldn’t sell it . Thank god I drove away in a 91 Toyota Celica Gt .

I had a first gen Avenger new off the lot in that same purple-gray paint. I loved it. My dad worked at the dealership and said they had to move it into the service garage at night before I took delivery because people kept pawing over it.