My friend has one in white with a blue interior. It’s not in the best condition cosmetically, but mechanically he got it working like new again when he got it.
EVERY engine is as reliable as the owner wants it to be. 30 years of seeing that, right here. Chryslers were nice... and affordable... KEY word.. affordable.. So most people bought them.. ran them into the ground cuz....... broke.... then cried when it failed
Miss these car. Ironically my uncle had an 84 Fifth Ave and a 90 New Yorker at one time. Hell my grandfather owned a 70's Newport wagon. Chrysler was apart of our family. This New Yorker is the same color as our Reliant we owned. 😊❤
Drove about 800 miles to Disney World for the first time in this car. Mine had leather seats. It was very comfortable. However it blew a head gasket pulling into the Disney parking lot. With only 20k miles on it! I seem to have problems with cars at Florida park. 15 years ago my reasonably new Monte Carlo blew the water pump on the interstate after leaving Universal. An awesome one armed Mexican tow driver saved us.
The conquest and the talon are two different cars. The Chrysler Conquest is a rebadged Mitsubishi Starion. The eagle talon, is a referred as DSM along with the Mitsubishi Eclipse and Plymouth Laser due to the fact that those three cars were built in the same factory in Normal, Illinois. Ironically enough, that same factory now builds Rivians.
I had one in 1989. White with red velour interior. I was 28 at the time. My friends had Camaros and such but I had a very luxurious ride. Got a lot of strange looks but didn’t care one bit. It was one of the last holdouts with genuine chrome everywhere.
A quality that I appreciate about certain car reviewers is when they go beyond just stating the quirks and features of a car. Like, that's important to have in a review people want to know what things a car has and what it can do. However, they all start to feel the same. Oh hey another compact car that isn't super comfortable for someone over six foot sitting in the back or look how practical this SUV is with all its cargo space. It's nice to hear more personal thoughts about a car like the stories connected to this car or how you went into the history of the Civic Si in your last video. I hope you continue to make reviews that cover all the standard bases but also dedicate time to talk about what makes a given car unique.
First comment, just want to say you're content is truly entertaining. I discovered your channel not too long ago and it has been a treat seeing a new video everyday!
8:55 talking about fire and smoke when the fire department in the backround rolls along - what a shot! 🤣🤣🤠Great review, one of your best ones! Interesting car, i didnt really like the Chryslers of the 80s but this one is pretty cool so to say
I worked at car dealerships during this time, and these cars were fun to drive. They were comfortable, and the stereos gave me an incentive to carry a cassette tape in my pocket at all times.
😮I had a 1977 New Yorker Brougham and it was an excellent car in every way except for the lean burn engine. After about 3 years, the engine started to load up and backfire. I replaced the Brainbox,the carburetor,and the magnetic pickup in the distributor and it still didn't run right. I even took it to a certified mechanic and he couldn't figure it out. Very puzzling.
A note on this New Yorker's powertrain. The engine is the Mitsubishi 6G72. A very good engine if you took care of the valve guide issue. What would happen is the valve guide would slip out of the cylinder head and on to the valve. It would then smoke like crazy. The fix? Install C clips on the valve guides to keep them from falling out of the head. The transmission IS the A604 Ultradrive. These transmissions came out in 1989. They were ATROCIOUS! Once they were rebuilt with all the upgraded components, they would then be reliable, durable, workhorse transmissions.
I remember my mom rented one of these for a week back in 1989 while her 1983 Buick Electra Park Avenue was in the auto repair shop getting worked on. She bought her Buick brand new off the lot back in 1983 it was 2 door coupe navy blue inside and outside she kept it until 1993 when she traded it in for a 1992 Chevy 1500.
My first car was a 94 lebaron and I wish I still had it. It didn't rattle. I thought it rode smooth and everything in the interior was tightened down very nicely. The transmission was never right even after allegedly being fixed by a transmission shop. I've read that many transmission problems were due to the wrong oil being used. I wished I had the 3.0L and 3 speed
Had a wood shop teacher in high school drive one. It was a tan 88 and was held together with bungee cords. It was falling apart by 1999 and by 2003 it only had 65k miles on it. It sounded like it was gonna explode once it got above 45mph and would smoke-kill all mosquitoes within 5 miles of it.
This brings back memories. My neighbor had a red on red on red one of these rotting in his driveway for years before he finally had it hauled off. This one looks pretty nice. Good old American luxury: drives like a boat, quilted seats, and full of fake wood and gadgets. It's no wonder the Germans and then the Japanese spanked the Big Three. It's amazing how versatile the K-platform was but a luxury car that's clearly based on an economy platform while trying to look like a big RWD car is kind of silly. There used to be a Chrysler plant in my home town and I know several people who worked there, including my grandfather. I think he retired about the time this car came out. All of the Chrysler guys admit that the K-car was a cheap POS but they also admit that it saved Chrysler and was one of the most important cars the company ever made. Tangent: I went to a car museum with my grandfather and there was a '66 Belvedere there. The caretaker was walking around so my grandfather told him that he may have built that car. Meanwhile, I was Googling to figure out if a '66 Belvedere has a fender tag that would show where it was built. Result: inconclusive. My grandfather's job about that time was making sure the front and back windows on hardtops rolled up properly and sealed against each other.
Chrysler built MILLIONS of K based vehicles from 1981 through 1994. The last being the 1994 Voyager, Caravan and Town and Country mini vans. Even that New Yorker was one of them.
Chrysler and Mitsubishi's partnership actually started in the '70s and by the early '80s it was common to find Mitsubishi engines in Chrysler products. I had an 83 Chrysler E-Class with a Mitsubishi engine in it, anything other than perfectly flat terrain would overtax the engine. It was perfectly fine around town but hilly or mountainous terrain would see the engine struggling mightily to pull the car as you slowly lost speed. Would love to see you review an early '90s Chrysler Imperial which was basically a K-Car stretched out to the max!
The Pretty Woman comment had me in stitches!! Love these cars. I don't know why they get so much hate. I drove one way back in the day. I thought it was an old fogey car that was secretly pretty awesome.
The Chrysler/Mitsubishi 3L V-6 is not a bad engine my dad and me both have that engine in our Dodge Caravans, they sure as hell take a ton of shit beating and keeps on ticking (pun intended, lifter ticks!) My dad's 1996 Dodge Caravan has 370 000kms before sold for scrap but it still runs! Shortly after the guy who bought it was driving on the road!
I won't say these were bad cars - they weren't - but they were embarrassing nonetheless. Chrysler (the brand, not the corporation) should have died then.
My parents had one when I was young (mid 80’s) and it would talk!! “A door is a jar”, “please fasten your seatbelt” “windshield washer fluid is low” and “don’t forget your keys!” Awesome memories!
Sorry, but this car was(is) a turd. I had a couple of these as company cars back in the day.. even as a "free" car, they were a dissappointment. Love your reviews, though...
Many Chrysler cars were built on the K-car platform back in this era, including the Caravan, Daytona and this New Yorker. It was a huge money saver for the business to use the same platform with various body designs.
For the older cup holders they were made for the average cup from a fast food place or a soda can. By the way it's not a back seat console. It's a arm rest.
Yes that's true,in the 80s people drank hot coffe in small cups or a small fast food soda style cups. Nothing like today's culture of giant aluminium bottles and extra large everything.
I've been a Mopar fan since my youngest days. I remember thinking these were butt-ugly when they came out. When I got married, I was driving a 78 New Yorker, an absolute land yacht.. I loved that car! In 89, I was driving my wife and baby daughter around in a 87 Subaru GL wagon. Had to get more practical.
Zach i like your presentation style very much. Honest, but without being pretentious or trying to slam a car for not being something it was not designed to be. Chrysler used mitsubishi engines way back to the early 80s. Pretty much the entire k car lineup and derivatives offered the 2.6L 4 cylinder engine as an option.
103,500 miles, Very low mileage considering it's age, that's probably why it lasted so long. I doubt this car has continuously been a daily since 1989.
I think you could sell ice to Eskimos but the truth is I own one!!! It got passed down through the family. It is a Chrysler New Yorker 5th Avenue. This one has a bad transmission at the moment but it isn't going to be scrap any time soon.
I remember my parents renting a New Yorker in 1989 on a trip one time. In Buffalo New York actually. It was maroon with a maroon interior. I highly doubt it was 5th Ave, much more likely it was a salon. I don't remember much about it other than the interior being really hot when inside.
I love the great since of humanity that you always add into your reviews! I drove one of these for a week one time as a Rental when my car was in the shop. It was a nice car and i was surprised at how much room was in it. I was pretty young though and my friends kept on asking me if I borrowed my grandmothers car.. Lol!!
This video unlocked some childhood memories for me - My Grandpa drove Chrysler's exclusively, and I'm pretty sure it was a New Yorker 5th avenue. I remember was that the car a green digital compass in the rearview mirror, air conditioning, power windows, and least fun... child safety locks on the windows and doors My six year-old mind was sorta blown away and also frustrated at how I could never roll the windows down. The car seemed so advanced back in the 90s, even though it looked old as heck. Thanks Zack, always love the videos!
I’m looking at buying a 92 New Yorker for a couple thousand dollars as a winter beater. It looks like it might actually be in good condition from the pictures! I do remember Chrysler having a lot of transmission problems in these years, especially in the minivans. I drove a Dodge Dynasty as a rental in the nineties. What a nice riding car!
The 3.0L wasn't the first Mitsubishi engine in a Chrysler. My 1982 K-body LeBaron has the Mitsubishi 2.6L engine. Before that there were several Mitsubishi cars that were re-badged as Dodge and Plymouth. For example, the 1978 to 1983 Dodge Challengers were 100% Mitsubishi.
My dad has a ‘92 Fifth Avenue (stretched) version of this car in Black Cherry Metallic (we called it the eggplant-mobile due to the color). Super comfy to ride in, but reliability was crap. He traded it in in’96 for a Toyota Camry XLE praying the salesman would finish the paperwork before someone from the dealership tried to drive the Chrysler away as its alarm went off every time you opened a door unless you unlocked the car from the passenger side.
This is a survivor. It has the 3.0 smokey mitsubishi V-6 and the A604 Ultradrive transmission. 1990 and after is better IMO b/c the 3.3 V-6 was pretty solid, and while the A604 was not great, it got better and would work ok if it was serviced regularly with the correct fluid. I kind of like these because are the last gasp of the "brougham" era- it's a strange bridge between "modern" and "traditional" American cars. Of this body, I always liked the simpler New Yorker "Salon" trim, and the Dodge Dynasty best. No vinyl top please. With some black paint and strategically re-arranged body trim, you could make a Dodge Dynasty pass for a Volvo 740 of the period. (I have a thing for square, boxy cars...)
Shame this was not equipped with the 3.3liter ohv engine instead of this 3.0. The 3.3 was a very good engine used in the LH platform cars as well. I had a Dodge Intrepid with the 3.3 and when I sold it there was 206,000 miles on it and I never had any problems with it.
To the best of my knowledge, the 3 speed auto was never an option on the '89 -'93 Chrysler New Yorker/Dodge Dynasty. The 4-speed auto was the only transmission from the get-go on these C-Body cars. Done to meet CAFE standards.
I went up to NY state in 1989 to be in my friend’s wedding. His father had rented one of these for the occasion. Friend asked his dad how it drove…”mush” was dad’s response. But they were the street furniture of my youth and I miss them. I came across one of these and a Dodge Dynasty in a junkyard few years ago…just across from each other In the same row. Both were in beautiful shape other than the typical scrapes from moving around the yard….glossy paint, plush interior…. Just a shame to see. Looked like grandma’s car that no one wanted so they just junked them. I paused and removed my hat for a moment of silence
I didn't know this plant closed. I'm in Chicago too and that's really really sad. That area of Illinois has been hit hard and it's sad that they will lose more jobs.
In case you didn't know the plant will stay open thanks to its Local UAW. During last year's strike, the Union said they'd accept NO deal unless Belvidere stayed open. Stellantis Really wanted to close it but they agreed. Belvidere allegedly will make like battery/hybrid compact trucks.
