A group for those of us that love EEKs--the infamous K-car and the 80s and 90s Chryslers that were based on the K-car
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Welcome to the EEK Group! This group is for all of us that love EEKs--the K-car and the many other 80s and 90s Chryslers based off them.
The original K-cars, the Dodge Aries and the Plymouth Reliant, had a smartly integrated front wheel drive layout that represented a new breed of American automobile. The American public clearly liked the new vehicles, quickly buying hundreds of thousands of them in Plymouth, Dodge, and even Chrysler form. In their nine years, the original K-cars were quite a success story — and that’s not even to mention all their siblings with slightly altered wheelbases and suspensions.
The K-car’s angular styling was the norm in the early 1980s, and with its long hood and short rear deck, it had good proportions; its performance was more than adequate compared with the other cars of the day, and with the average car of the muscle-car era, which was more likely to have a straight-six or economy V8 than a Hemi or big-block.
The K-car platform proved eminently flexible, being stretched, compressed, and reconfigured to produce such diverse vehicles as the famed minivan and the exotic two seat Chrysler's TC by Maserati grand tourer.
(Taken from http://www.allpar.com/eek/k/k.html.)
All Hail the Mighty K-Car!
