The Plymouth Prowler Was Secretly Chrysler's Most Important Engineering Experiment
Always thought those things were fugly..but that is par for coarse with mopar/fiat for awhile now..
Um you need to know your mopar history before spouting off.
The prowler was designed and produced before the unhealthy merger with Diamler making the company Damnyou-Chrysler, and was killed during that merger, and so was dead and buried many years before the fiat merger.
The 90s was a good time for chrysler before the Diamler merger. Thay had good products in the pipeline, a halo car in the viper that could win against the corvette. Granted they could have had a mid sized V8 muscle car to compete with the camaro and mustang, even though the camaro/firebird went away after i think 1994.
If the prowler helped them with engineering techniques with alternate materials decades before their competition then thats great. It shows forward thinking, which is what i have come to expect from the smallest of the big 3.
By the way, they were also experimenting with ceramic rotors on the rear of the prowler as well. This is also decades ahead of everybody else.
As far as Fiat goes, this company also has alfa romeo, maserati, and ferrari under its brand, yet they havent killed the viper. They worked with chrysler to improve it, as well as improving chryslers current models. You only have to look and compare just the interior redesign of the 2015 challenger to the outgoing 2014 challenger to see the difference.
I think Fiat automobiles genuinely cares about chrysler. It shows in the current products in the pipeline compared to the stuff made during the diamler merger except for the gen 3 hemi
This is my .02
Matt
