), New Yorkers rolled off assembly lines nonstop through the 1996 model year. Today’s Junkyard Gem is one of the l ast New Yorkers built, found in a car graveyard in Phoenix, Arizona.
The 1994-1996 New Yorker was built on a stretched version of the Chrysler LH platform, which was developed out of the Renault-derived Eagle Premier that came to Chrysler when Lee Iacocca had his company buy American Motors in 1987.
It wasn’t quite as awe-inspiring as some of the earlier New Yorkers (see: 1953, 1964, 1977 but not the sub-awe-inspiring 1982 or 1990), but it was big, comfortable and reasonably powerful with its 214-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 engine.
The MSRP for this car was $25,596, or about $52,396 in 2023 dollars. The nearly identical 1995 Chrysler LHS was $29,595 ($60,582 after inflation), which confused just about everyone. Meanwhile, the distressingly (if you were a Chrysler dealer) similar-looking 1995 Dodge Intrepid started at just $17,974 ($36,794 in today’s money). The bragging rights of owning a New Yorker had diminished steadily ever since the name started going on dressed-up Dodge Diplomats
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