The mid-fifties were conflicting years for carmakers who were trying hard to break away from the prewar ways of making automobiles. Chrysler Motors Corporation was acing it in styling, its Forward ...

Named after Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, the DeSoto company was established in 1928 by Walter P. Chrysler. Created to compete with Pontiac, Studebaker, Hudson, and Willys in the mid-price class, ...

Chrysler was founded in 1925 when Walter Chrysler reorganized the assets of the foundering Maxwell Motors Company and reformed it in West Virginia under his own name. Three years later, Chrysler ...