1976 Plymouth Volare commercial Film - vs. Pinto Wagon and Ford Granada Ghia -Wink Martindale Voice 

Ok, I'm convinced. The Volare is my next new car. I'm on my way to the Plymouth dealer today.

My jaw dropped when the voice-over said the word 'aerodynamic' on a shot of the square shaped front of the car - compared to what? A refrigerator?

I owned about 7 Volare/Aspens from 1978 through the early 1990's. All were second hand, and all were wagons except for one T-top Aspen coupe. All were great cars which is why I kept buying them. About 7 years ago, I found a rust free '78 Aspen wagon survivor in Colorado with only 27k miles, the slant Super Six engine and four speed overdrive transmission. I flew out to get it and drove it home to Pennsylvania with no problems. I still have it to drive to car shows and cruises and for weekend rides. I don't plan on ever letting this one go! I love it!

We had a '78 Volare wagon bought used in 1982 - didn't give it up until 1996 when it had almost 190K miles. Slant 6 power with a high rear gear ratio - 2.76:1, together with posi differential(Chrysler called it something else) so it was a long range cruiser even if it was slow in acceleration (0 to 60 mph was about 15+ seconds). Many long trips all over the Midwest and one trip to FL. One of the best cars we ever had! Thanks Mr. Tramain for the video.

God how I wish these were still available today!

A ‘78 Volare sedan was my dads first new car ever. He always had second or third hand cars before. We made a lot of memories in that car. She was a great car. After he passed, I searched for one. Took me years, but I’m a proud owner of a 1978 Volare sedan, 318 w original ELB. She runs great.

The next time I buy a car I’m going to bring a giant circle to the dealership to test the trunk. And I will be judging door handle position. Harshly.

A friend of mine has a 1978 Volare station wagon, slant 6, automatic. 1 major overhaul of the engine at 265,000 miles, now just passed 500,000 miles. No rust New Mexico helps, even the AC still works.

I love the funky jazzy Hammond organ background music mixed in with the Herb Alpert like trumpet. The best part of this video is the music

My Dad worked for a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer and my grandfather at a Dodge dealer. I did not like the Volare/Aspen as much as some of the older traded in cars I could "play with" that were on the back lots (like Valiants, Darts, Lancers with gadgets like the push button transmission and even Simcas and the Cricket) but now in retrospect they seem so nice/easy to live with everyday. This movie makes me feel so nostalgic for the 70's which is something I never thought would happen.

Well, I'm sold. I'm heading out to my Plymouth dealer right now and buying a brand new 1976 Volare.

My first car was a 1979 Volare...it has 18k when I bought it for $800 in 1988. I then put 200,000+ miles on it. Was the best car I ever owned.

They showed you so many mechanical specs and ergonomic features that make the vehicle reliable and comfortable. Now they show you the screen in the dash and how many apps it can handle.

All I remember for sure from those days of Chrysler was use of "real, corinthian leather". KhAn!!!

I always liked the Aspen/Volare styling. we had a frind whose family owned a volare and it rode like a cadillac...smooth, quiet and so comfortable!

In 1978 I was given a 1978 Dodge Aspen coupe to drive as an insurance replacement for about two weeks. It was a beautiful Red on Red package and ,wow, what a New Car Smell! It was a fantastic car to a twenty-year-old driver. I still remember the Southwest Leasing stock number: CA8078.

My dad bought a Volare wagon new in '77. It was a good car. He loved it. His '68 Fury ll sedan became my high school/go to work car. I loved that Fury. Good old day's. Great automobile's. I miss them.

We had a Volare station wagon. I remember being eight years old and the family went to the beach. The vinyl seats were so hot when you got back that you had minor burns on the back of your legs.

The Granada's dirty little secret was that it was a 1960 Falcon in a new, wide-lapeled polyester leisure suit. The Chevy Nova comparatively wore its' carryover-ness on its' sleeve. The Aspen/Volare were really, completely new and had the teething troubles to show for it. In the end, they were the last Chrysler cars with carburetors by 1988-89. Even the Omni/Horizon got single-point EFI for '88.

2:15 Volare drivers seat is alllllll the way back, 2:26 Granada drivers seat is alllllll the way forward. 2:35 Volare drivers seat is now allllll the way forward, 2:43 Granada drivers seat is now alllll the way back. Camera filming angles are also shifted relative to the respective cars, too. Very sneaky, Volare. Whoa-ohhh. Love the old commercials from a better time, though! Thanks for posting this!

They forgot to mention how in the winter when the door latches froze open, you could tie the seatbelts through the handles so they didn't fly open going around corners 😉

Imagine paying extra for a vinyl roof, like it's a good thing!

Very luxurious placing that ashtray well below the air vents - and right next to the high fidelity AM radio sound system.

I had a '76 Valore wagon 318. Most practical vehicle Ive ever had and fun, fun, fun! Drove it till it rusted apart.

I had a 78 Dodge Aspen wagon. It was my first car and a hand me down from my parents. I loved that car and miss it.

That look on the dude's face, like "Yehhhhh baybeh, we takin this Volare on a cruise. E cantare ohhhh ho ho ho."

These types of videos are very nostalgic. I find myself watching these types of videos when feeling stressed, and they help. That I also happen to be a car guy, so it's nice to learn little trivia tidbits about cars I remember from my childhood. I also liked the Volare. I had a friend in highschool that had the V8 sedan and it actually kinda ripped, not gonna lie. Thank you for putting up this video. I really liked it.

Good cars 318 or slant six both good engines good rides.

I like much these old times commercial promos, they explain and compare different models very wonderful. Something that is missing these days. Great American cars!!!!

Dad worked at a Chrysler dealer in the late 70s. He had a school to go to in Paramus, NJ. So, Mom drove...a 1978 Volare, 318. She said it was very comfortable, and actually got 20 mpg. We lived 50 miles north if Charlottesville. The next year, they took an Omni 024, auto, 2.2.to VA TECH to visit me..18 mpg....go figure. Mom did buy a 1980 Omni 024, manual, 1.7 VW engine. It never got over 20 mpg...ever. Yet, they had a 1973 Mercury Marquis coupe, 429 4V...2 trips to Florida...17-19.5 mpg.

It’s pretty funny how people got tired of wagons yet that Volare wagon has almost the exact cargo space of today’s “compact” SUVs like the RAV4.

I hit a big buck with my ‘78 slant 6 Volare. Killed the deer and after the radiator was repaired and the carcass was cleaned off the front bumper she drove just fine.

Miss the seventies. Had a friend who had a Volare, that thing was a tank! Love these old commercials. Ty 4 sharing and uploading!

Had one, a 4 door sedan with the 6. bought it used for a very good price in the late 90s. I have absolutely no complaints whatsoever. Wish I had never traded it in for that convertable.

Just one more thing.. that soundtrack reminds me of the NFL Halftime highlights during the early 70’s LoL 😆

After I joined the Air Force in 1981, I bought a 1976 Plymouth Volare with the 225 slant 6 and a 3 speed manual transmission with a bench seat. Yes, a bench seat with a manual. The car was very dependable. Here was the shifting pattern: First gear, left and down, smashed against the bench seat. Second gear was up and to the right with your knuckles in the radio, and of course third gear was smashing the gear shift back to the bench seat! The car never let me down!

I liked the Aspen/Volare wagons.

Bought a Used 1977 Volare at a Dealer Auction, I thought it had a Slant six ,but it was a 360 V8 Wow that Car had Guts to say the least it would smoke the Tires at 40MPH Nice little Rocket !!

It's funny how this car started as the F body compact of the 70s and ended production in the late 80s as the M body, Chrysler's largest top of the line models with little change

I had a 79 volare with a slant 6. Very good car.

The level of shade this reviewer threw at the other makes and models was a think of beauty 👌🏽

A small car from Plymouth for '76. Today it's a limo! Sergio Franchi did the commercials if I remember correctly.

nice car commercial i love the 1970s

Pinto wagon? An AMC Hornet Sportabout wagon might have been a little closer. Of course we take these sales films with a grain of salt. Thank you for posting this great piece of automotive history.

My mom had a Volare for years upon years, drove it everywhere. Including weekend trips to the beach. I asked her years after she had purchased (used) if she ever changed the oil or tune up. Never did. Years of running on same oil/filters. I did a tune up on it, changed the nasty sludge and that dang thing kept running forever afterwards. Those old slant 6 motors were work horses.

My family owned the Volare Premier from 1977-1986.

first car i remember as a kid was my moms 1976 Ford Granada Ghia triple blue. My pops, is a GM guy and he still talks about what a great car that was. My mom still remembers how that ($40) clock kept the best time LOL. She drove it until 1986 when they traded it in on a Celebrity. Fond memories. Thanks for the upload! Always love the effort you take getting these online!

My first car was a Volare Coup with a 225 Slant-6.

Wow, coolant overflow reservoirs used to be an option on some cars (like the Ford Granada) in the 70s?

I love these compared models films.

If you look back in the mid seventies, the only other wagon at that time was the AMC Hornet Sportabout that could be either with or without the D/L package that had the woodgrain trim. It wasn't until '78 you could get power windows and locks when it was renamed the Concord, but there's the skinny on compact wagons.That would be a interesting comparison

My parents bought a ‘76 Volare Station Wagon when I was a kid. I drove it some in high school and loved driving it. It was easy to drive and had ample power with the slant-six. It was a copper/brown color, low trim model. I miss that car!

An actual informative commercial! Most commercials nowadays I don't even know what they are for. Volare', hoh, oh, oh, oh!

I can see Wink Martindale's perfect teeth just listening to him....

I had a 1976 Volare in Petty Racing Blue. It was the only American car I ever owned that went over 100,000 miles. Slant 6! Got me from California to Kansas City, completely overloaded, no problem. I loved that car! I think the ad copy is hilarious _ a "small car?" Wish they built cars that "small" today! Go Volare, or don't Go at all!

Great '70s feel and music

In 1980 my wife and I were 25 years old with 3 kids under 6. We looked at all car brands and on one stop at Lakewood Chrysler Plymouth, we found a stripped down Chrysler Lebaron wagon in the back of the lot they had for 9 months. Sticker price 6,700. They wanted that car gone so bad, they knocked $500 off! The only it had only air conditioning and auto trans no other options. Slant 6 and am radio. My kids grew up knowing how to roll windows up and down and make sure all the locks on the doors were pushed down. My daughter took it to College in 1993! She rear ended a truck and totaled it, 185k. We sold it for a parts car for $300.

A great-looking affordable basic car with all the right stuff. I wish I could try one tomorrow.

I had a base model plymouth Volare Sedan it was maroon exterior and a tan interior or beige interior I guess and slant six motor had air-conditioning had an a.m. radio power steering and it was a fantastic car absolutely fantastic terrific car every point that was covered about the Valare not withstanding the Ford Granada at all just what was said about the Valare in this video was absolutely true and I’m a six footer I’m a big man and it fit me like a glove it was quiet wouldn’t win any races but it had plenty of power very roomy and everything just felt right in my car did not suffer from any of the failures or recalls I just loved it it was a 1978 Plymouth volare

I had a friend who loved his Volare so much that he would Armourall the vinyl bench seats and them seatbelts would keep us in place insted of slip/sliding away!

These compact cars from Chrysler had bulletproof engines and transmissions which would out last the bodies. My parents way back in 76 drove a Dodge Aspen sedan with a slant six engine, in which believe it or not held up pretty well we had the car for 15 years, my parents bought a Pontiac Parisienne wagon after our Aspen gave us reliable service .

I had the '80 slant 6 Volare. It was a good car with above average ride for the time.

Still remember when mom bought her '77 Volare with red interior. She loved that car, until someone rearended it while parked.

Wow. I watched this post feeling sad about soon-to-come repeated recall and low quality scandals - then read many comments below that praised (or raved about) this car line. How interesting! Not a disaster for everyone.

I got my drivers license in a 76 Volare', it was as basic as you can get, but I still liked it.

Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen were decent cars back in the day 👌. CHEERS.

3:23 from a time when cars had ash trays.

I knew a guy who had a Ford Grenada, it has the 300 inline 6 cylinder and he could keep up with V8 powered cars, but it rode like a city bus. I had a 79 Aspen (same thing as the Volare) that was a 2 door, and it had the 225 Slant 6. I got it when I was 18, it had 165,000 miles on it, drove it all over the place but I preferred my 71 Dart Swinger, that had a 318 in it. The girl I sold it to sadly beat the snot out of it and the last time I saw it, the car had 230,000 miles on it and it was still going. It was a damn shame though what had happened to that car.

This is funny, I had both a Volare AND then later a Granada back to back while in high school back in the 80's! The video doesn't lie about the roominess of the Volare, but the Volare was a a bigger car and so the Granada to me always had me feeling more cramped. The Volare had a 100 hp, 160 tq, 225ci slant six, while the Granada had the factory smogged out 142 hp, 255 tq, 351W shoehorned in it. They both weren't terribly reliable though for me as a teen anyways, as they both ended up getting junked-the Volare for a knocking rod bearing & slipping transmission, the Granada had caught on fire and burned up (very quickly to boot) due to a dash panel wiring short! Ah well, I was hard on cars at that time as a teen that was for sure! Awesome video!

MY grandfather had the Dodge sister...he passed away in 1983 and my grandmother gave the car to my dad, I was already driving my 73 Nova and would be caught dead in the 1976 Aspen.Till coming back from my grandmothers house, my dad pulled over and told me to get behind the wheel. He said 'HIT IT" I laid a patch about 20 feet long before I took my foot off the gas pedal. I told him...this thing needs tires!!!! It still had the polyglass oem factories rubber on it. 318 lean burn and about the fastest car ( that time I'd ever driven ) He said he'd race just about anyone that pulled along side of him, even with my grandmother and his aunt in the car with him...

I drove both the 76 Volare/Aspen. Good solid cars. Drove nicely. A little trouble with dieseling after engine shutdown due to unleaded gas and smog controls, but that was not uncommon for the era. The Mustang II of the time was terrible about dieseling.

I remember family friends had one new and my wife and I owned a used one in the mid 1980's. Had no real issues other than many would rust out the front fenders fairly quickly. Ours had the fenders already replaced with fiberglass ones by the time we owned it.

The Volare was one of the hottest sellers in the lineup, even with all its alleged quirks!

Smoking blunts in the Volare is way better than in the Granada.

My parents bought a brand new 76 Dodge Aspen. I was about 4, I still remember there were lots of Darts on the lot. The smell of a new Dodge (or Plymouth) was intoxicating. I liked the little lights on the front fenders that indicated that your blinkers were blinking.

We made a small fleet of Turbine power voloares and they really ran strong, they had the variable pitch power turbine. I thought they were going into production soon.

This was golden. No room in the front seat for that beautiful model. Of course she’s about 6ft tall, plus heels, and they pushed the seat all the way up. My dad had a ‘76 Granada, and yes, the cigarette ashes burned half of the velour seat; great engine though.👏✌️

My neighbor had a 2dr Plymouth ROADRUNNER stemming from a Volare, wo wo wo. Cantare... we would sing that song when he was in it. It was pretty good 318 -2bbl. Not exactly a muscle car, but, certainly fun to drive.

In the late 90's I had an'80 Aspen with a slant 6. I was a fantastic car. Super dependable and ran great (no surprise with the slant 6). I sold it in 2 hrs. with 133,000 mi.

Dad had a 77 Volare Premier 4dr, and the interior truly was luxurious compared to what other small (this was a 'compact' then) cars offered. Came off as quite classy, and only a Granada/Monarch Ghia could touch it - but they cost more with no real benefit and sloppier handling. However, the 318 was a slug, gas mileage was nothing to brag about and eventually the front fenders rusted out (or course). Still, it was comfortable and it took years for most American cars to offer dual reclining seats - you got passenger side only if at all in those days.

I had a Volare once, was my first car.

I guess this is the official "Mopar Is The Best" channel.

My volare came from little old lady in Alaska, very low mileage, just sat in igloo,she preferred to drive a dog team instead.

My aunt loved her Granada, it was always hard to start in the morning especially in the winter, she would have to pump the gas alot to get it to start, and the ashtray, always overflowing as she was a very heavy chain smoker, she would just point the vents upwards to stop the air from blowing ashes everywhere.

Volare, oh oh Cantare, oh oh oh oh

1:30 The steering wheel is mounted on a straight, stiff, non-jointed column from the passenger to the front wheel system which is a part of the crumple zone. Seems safe to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

If I was in the market for a new car, I would strongly consider the Volare'. This ad makes a good argument.

These cars were fairly reliable yeah they had some recall issues in the first year, but they offered solid engines and transmissions and the were comfortable and roomy ! CHEERS ...

Both the Granada and Volare/Dart are classics that would be welcome in my driveway. So would a Pinto for that matter but that is a totally different class of car.

Hot rodders liked to steal the bolt on front suspension to retro older cars for a while. We used to ask, "Does it have the Volare front end?

That's It, I am getting a Volare!

I want one!

I had a 1977 Dodge Aspen station wagon. It was a good car; always reliable, it was equipped with the indestructible 318 V8. I still don't understand why the Volare/Aspen got such a bad reputation, it was basically a larger version of the Valiant/Dart platform which was always considered a good car. It wasn't really any worse than any other American car of the era. maybe even a little better. As for Lean Burn, it was a good system, the biggest problem was that Chrysler was the first to have an ECU engine management system, and most mechanics at the time were either unfamiliar or simply too stuck in their ways and didn't have the training or the desire to learn how to deal with it.

I owned a 1977 two-door with a slant 6, standard shift. It was roomier than the Fords (I am tall so that was important.) The front suspension was a great idea but spoilt with cheap shocks, put Koni shocks and it was greatly improved. The door had a metal flash that jammed into my thumb, giving me a staph infection. Took it through all the recalls, no problem before or after. Basically a good car in Texas, got to East TN and the engine/shift combination just didn't work on the hills. Next car, however, was a Dodge Diplomat with a 318, big improvement.

My parents had a 76 premier they were quite and comfortable

Many people complain about these Plymouths but compared to what's out there now id take a volare.

Sold I will buy one.

I was 18 then. The add speaks to the higher I.Q., attention span, and educational level of the boomer generation.🙂

I'd love to have the old Grenada. It's the same chassis used for the Mustang so the parts bin is deep and easy to install. They ma kin e great and inexpensive sleepers.

The Plymouth Volare isn't a bad car at all, I might find one someday, if possible