If You Can Find a Better Car Than Lee Iacocca’s Personal Chrysler LeBaron, Buy It

Car and Driver ^ | January 15, 2020 | Chris Perkins

[Kenny Bania]

Not sure, but I understand that John Voight the periodontist’s LeBaron is a sweet ride.

[alternatives?]

My grandparents had a 78 Monte Carlo. The only problem they had was with the chrome strips on the plastic bumpers kept becoming loose and falling off.

While not very fast, they did look distinctive and different unlike today’s cars.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I had issues with a few Chrysler products and won’t buy another one. I remember test driving a LaBaron around that time, it had like 10K miles on it and drove like it had 100K. Total rattle trap.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

He responded in a a hand-written letter

My mother always said "The bigger they are, the nicer they are."

[trebb]

Yep - I had a Dodge Aries...bad seams and coating under wheel well let water leak into trunk when driving on wet roads, lousy gasket let water fill up[ left taillight assembly, alignment couldn’t be adjusted to specs w/o special kits, VW Rabbit engine had paper head gasket which blew at about 50K miles, A/C crapped out around same time. Heating/A/C air system fan motor stopped working and the 29 cent piece of plastic with coils on it, that fed power to the blower motor, cost about $40 to buy so I could replace it. Lousy acceleration and gas mileage wasn’t commensurate with lack of power.
Other than that it was a nice little car.