1990 Chrysler TC by Maserati: Regular Car Reviews 

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the only woman i can picture exiting a TC is Ginger from Casino, except more worn out and mixed with Snooki.

@@AK-lw2jw ahahahahhaqh I'M DEAD

AK02 casino is that movie!!!

@@AK-lw2jw Henry's wife Lorraine in Goodfellas.

lol..but probably not. more like one of the newer FCA owned Maserati's.

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@@gzuzsavz no its the LeBar- i mean TC By Maserati

Tom Johnson I guess stuff fly’s over your head

Maybe it was a Biturbo he meant

I'm still pist that DNF wasn't open world..no excuse. and to top it off, i played it..half enjoyed it, tbh bc Dukes dialogue mainly, Jon St. John is great. but the day after i beat the game some maggot stole it outta my steam account! ffs. i own a '93 LeBaron convertible..it's far better than DNF. Closer to Serious Sam..js. Fun lil car, reliable, decent mpg.

Except that DNF was a sequel whereas the TC kiiiiiinda wasn't

Thanks, Randy!

*a Maserati

blackandgold51 FIAT is the parent company

I know crazy, right? I was hoping someone else noticed.

In fact the Maserati Ghibli repeated this whole trick. It is a Chrysler with a body kit and some interior doodads.

And Maseratis/Chryslers today grab stuff from the same parts bin, even the engine to some extent

The biggest irony is, since Chrysler owned Lamborghini at the time, the TC (and all Maseratis of the era) had a chance to get Lambo-engineered power under the hood. But NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOHHHHH. Thanks Lee Iacocca.

It's not absurdly accurate. It's just accurate. Luxury certainly does not mean hard and cramped.

Luxury means a comfortable ass and room for my balls to breathe.

And we wore an onion in our belts. Because it was the style at the time.

"Luxury", yes.

For old Luxury cars yes

I couldn't help but read that with Chef Ramsey's voice

The interior is ginger, not brown...

More so than Columbia MD.

DR BROWN!

S E P T I C T A N K

I have the same engine my Mitsubishi, it's not bad. If you keep it at low rpms.

@@dillonh321 That's basically a diesel engine without good fuel economy you're talking about haha

@@fevriertheo1414 Yeah. It seems to be rev happy but the power seems to be low in the rpms. If I floor it, it is slower than if I just do half throttle.

Except that you have no clue what you're talking about.

@@omcx1e oh? Please enlighten all of us about this majestic piece of engineering then instead of just saying "u wrong"

808 perfect

First thing Michigan used car lots do is call a scrap deal to get it out of their site.

Those sharks would definitely sell it as a classic car because someone out there is stupid enough to bite the bait. How do you think Chrysler sold this car to idiots as an overpriced “Italian luxury car” maesrati in the first place.

Lmfao bruh !!!!

They know.....they just do it anyway

Hmm you probably down vote whenever he doesn't do a random old 90s car

needs more B R O W N

@@JoelEmberson this comment needs more upvotes

Che1seabluesdrogba11 ARE YOU JARGLUS?

no it isnt. what an idiotic, dead brain comment.

Until "HOT DICKS" flashes on the screen 3,000 times.

The damn audio . We need good audio bro

@@stevethepocket This happened on a flight I was on. I had to place my phone face down on my tray table and try to keep from laughing until it was over.

@@stevethepocket loooooooool

i mean, italian engines, japanese interior and american styling is arguably worse.

This car is probably more reliable than a real Maserati😁😁😁

@@sportmode6438 Literally ANYTHING is more reliable than a piece of trash Maserati, like a a Reliant Robin, or a Yugo.

Chrysler had the right idea in putting together a Japanese drivetrain, as much trouble as American companies had in coming close to the reliability on their own at the time, European luxury interior design, and an American cut-and-paste platform to keep costs down. The car should've been great, and the profit margin on each one should've been near triple digits. But somehow, a great idea went as wrong as it possibly could have. The engine was Mitsubishi's, little better than anything to come out of Detroit in the 80s if not worse, the design and manufacturing were by Maserati, who have always been hilariously incompetent at doing anything in a cost-effective way, and the platform was, well, Chrysler's, so it was unrefined to begin with and they were too lazy and broke to do anything to distinguish it. I think the TC was the failed Alpha test they learned from to later create the better Beta version, the Dodge Stealth, and the wildly successful bug free final product, the DSM cars (yeah, there was an upmarket Chrysler version, and its margins were probably close to what they'd hoped the TC's would be).

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baloney. ive driven many cars of this vintage..fine, reliable cars. oohh..my current summer daily is a whaaat? '93 LeBaron? W/a 3.0L Mitsu? 170k, 26 yrs old and showin no signs of slowin. oops? Italian performance is when just the engine costs what the car in the vid above did.

I have a 92 lebaron convertible..Great car reliable fun 3litre goes like hell. Gets nice comments wherever i go. I've had many Chrysler convertibles.

The only thing I remember about the Allante is the Bundy Bounce.

@@kronos6948 NOT A LEBARON!

"the Neeew Allantéééé"

More like the Cimarron "It's not a Cavalier!"

Or the Cadillac ELR "it's not a Chevy volt!"

I bet he also regrets trading in his IROC-Z Camaro to get his Lebaron.

He always talks about the letter Q, but I feel as if this isn't what it's for...

Mr. RCR needs to make more Uncle Pulltab references.....change my mind!

@@rebelguy9487 I'll never change your mind... because my mind is set on more uncle Pulltab appearances as well.

Drinking with Uncle Pulltab last night went on a late night beer run to the gas station convenience store where the attractive cashier works. You tell yourself tonight I'm going to balls up and say hi. Right when your about to open your mouth Uncle Pulltab busts in with a lit cigarette, cracks a beer and says hey leaning up on the counter. Attractive cashier desperately looks the other way meanwhile Uncle Pulltab walks out forgetting to pay.

Rick O’Shay Chrysler TC Maserati: When you loses all the money in the divorce and this is your bounce back

So Tiger Woods has one?

Chrysler TC by Maserati: The official car of Driving Up To The Chris Hansen Decoy House.

Funnily enough I got banned from Applebee's, and I'm trying to buy one of these

Italians dropped the ball..on price..fine car otherwise.

I liked the look of the TC and it's styling has aged better than most of it's peers from the 80's. But I didn't know it had a Mitsubishi engine (the deadbeat of the Japanese automotive industry) or that it's interior was so disgusting looking. But it looked nice from the outside.

Well, we all have our off days, right?

@Devin Dyer Who ever owns them the company is a dog. Jeep is the only brand worth anything. The cycle just keeps going around like this car junk with a fancy name

If that does happen, watch Maserati's stock plummet

Reboot yes and they probably even use the same tech and "quality finish".

@Devin Dyer It's actually Fiat-Chrysler

yeah it's called Maserati's current model lineup

it's like saying a 32" 720p tv is the same as a UHD 65".

The Lebaron was better looking with a more tasteful interior.

ON A DARK DESERT HIGHWAY

The Three Tenors would have been funnier.

I'm pretty sure i have seen that head unit in a Jeep

@@nslouka90 and many other chryslers over a near 20 year period

It goes into the player, but it can never come out.

Nothing like getting guillotined by my LS400 hood. That thing was heavy af

Mark that too lmao hood is like a brick

too cheap to pop new gas arms on it, i guess.

IKR? I hope it was in the day's queue to review!

Don't let that distract you from the fact that Under Armour stole their logo from one of Quark's broaches on Deep Space Nine

@@williwonti Well, they apparently had a look at the 12th Rule of Acquisition which states: "Anything worth selling is worth selling twice."

or another TC

Geo Metro convertible with a Sprint turbo engine swap. And a trailer hitch for pulling your grill-trailer to everyone else's cookout.

Geo Metro convertible: When you no longer fear death.

so even less reliable?

@@stevenhaas9622, and here you thought

I think there were 501 of those produced

Thise 80-90s turbo 4s were reliable as long as you changed the oil and not to go more than a quart low...the oil cooled turbos hated that...loved my turbo shadow

Rules of acquisition go as far back as TNG

Zoomzabba yes, but DS9 is where the Ferengi and the “Rules” were really fleshed out and made great. Quark is such a great character and has some of the best commentary on humanity in all of Trek.

@@Citiprime Fair enough.

Ford Capri as well. (Not Foxbody Mercury Capri or 50's Lincoln Capri or the various European Capri's.)

I just noticed a Reatta in my friends neighborhood parked in a driveway the other day. (thinking, wow I haven't seen ones of those in ages) Now suddenly I read all these comments about Reatta's and Allanté and this mashup of the finest engineering of Japanese, Italian and American car companies.. My brain must be in sync with RCR's posting scheduled.

With a TRIDENT inside... a Chrysler Pentastar.

Hey, if the typical programming syntax applies then K++ is K+K... but you had the P and the L and all the other EEK's first to be K++. or K+K, so this is really (K++)++ or K+K+... uh oh....

@ThePatUltra My bad on the late comment; I was attending UWG when you made it! I'm still on the Square about once a week in a red MR2 Spyder. You?

bh93 Yes including the Dodge Aspen review! Was the first review I saw of his

Chrysler products write their own jokes 🤷‍♂️

@@CollinWeis Their whole brand is a joke 🤣😂

The Dodge Avenger review is still my favorite

Vasil vas Nesprosil Mexico, can confirm

I refer to them as my bag bags.

Liam Pepper what about 7:45? The only part of the video that didn't make me feel nauseous

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Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy

I doubt you're living life in the fast lane.

But deep down you know its... Already Gone.

@@idriwzrd in that case you can just take it easy.

Butterscotch, because it's old man classy.

It's called Ginger.

I agree I'm a big fan of brown car and beige interior and rouged leather seats no matter how bad the car is ..I'm sold .and its just 80sTacky and cheesy enough to be be cool .The haters will keep the values down just enough to make it more affordable for me ...so cheers.

Paul M Yes the 3.0 Mitsubishi motor was a good motor. I had one in a caravan with 280K miles that still ran strong.

I think Maserati actually did the interior and other assembly

Tom Johnson Awesome!!

@@chrisj197438 thnx!

Good for your dad, but this is just anecdotal evidence. A car this old is not crazy safe, it's a death trap by any modern standards.

no1DdC by today’s standards yea it’s a death trap but by 90s standards it’s pretty great!

Why did he take the staples with him after the crash, were they in the glove box

no1DdC comparing it to cars made almost thirty years later is also a poor excuse for "evidence".

John Ennis lmao. Like stitches

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles? Or Ferengi Commerce Authority?

Was looking for that Metal Gear comment! Haha

I knew I wasn't crazy for hearing metal gear!

*E X E C U T I V E D E C I S I O N*

GET OFF MY PLANE

astronmr20 ITS JUST BEEN REVOKED

I still have actual nightmares about driving it though. You had to start braking EARLY to come to a stop in time, and the buttons would disappear into the dash when you pressed them. Plus only a handful of Chrysler dealers sent their technicians to Italy to get trained on how to work on it.

@@DanCapostagno brakes on my '93 LeBaron are fine. Maybe use decent pads? dunno about the buttons either, mine are all fine, 26 yrs old..170k..wisc car with no rust bc never in the salt.

@@gzuzsavz Thanks for the reply. The interiors were totally different on the leBaron and the TC, with the assembly being in a different factory. Similarly, the materials were different; American consumers by this point had expectations of durability and had shifted to modern materials and manufacturing; whereas the deTomaso folks running Maserati at the time were still thinking of a different consumer. The leather was of the glove-leather quality, but that also means it disintegrated at a faster rate, and bespoke interior finishing, while great for bragging rights, is not as reliable in most cases. There's a reason we don't assemble cars that way anymore, not even at Maserati. The fit-and-finish on that generation of Maseratis was noticibly bad, even though I love them aesthetically. You're probably right about the brakes though, the original pads could've been swapped out.

@@DanCapostagno Ahh, good info, thnx. & yeah, vintage Maserati's look cool. ive never been snobbish about fit & finish myself..who cares? is it reliable, does it kick ass and look good doing it? ok! lol. leather..at least the stuff used in any old mopar ive ever bought has always looked amazing after 20 yrs, tons of miles...i buy cars with about 100-150k on them and drive them..i usually get 5-10 yrs before they get too rusty, bc wisc.

A lot of them do still look nice. They didn't suffer from the crappy paint process Chrysler used in the 80's. They also were very expensive by the standards of the time, so people took care of them more than other Chrysler products.

Better a pippet of water than semen ehh?

The late 90's Camaro and Trans Am was sort of a highlight, probably the only decent American cars besides the Corvette and Viper from the era.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY

proud

You mean the 2 door Lumina lol I'm a Die hard Monte Carlo fan and I don't count those. Even though the 2000 on up was just a 2 door Impala mechanically, it at least didn't look like it until the 2006-07 front end.

beulahboi all those cars were just tatted up luminas....

Front wheel drive =NOT A MONTE!

Unless you’re a NASCAR fan.

I think it was chevys attempt to hush the popularity of the grand prix in the mid 90s, either that or holden over mass production of the lumina body vs actual sales prompted for them to revive the monte carlo name to get rid of the lumina bodies that holden shipped over

..i srsly want to drop an SRT4 mill in my '92 LeBaron convert. figure go with approx stage 3 engine specs. should hit 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, just like the sedan. ...oh & just as quick as the 'treat them like metal gods or die!!!' Nissan R34 GT-R. lol.

You need serious help, he hates everything and is about as entertaining as a tooth ache

4 am for me

1.5 Fat Italians

@ThePatUltra THAT'S GENIUS😝

entropy11 Everyone ignores weight capacity and trailer tow capacity anyway. It’s not like the car will fold if 416 lbs are loaded.