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* The [[Barenaked Ladies]] lapse into [[Sarcasm Mode]] with "If I had a million dollars / I'd buy you a K-car / A nice Reliant automobile". Chrysler under Lee Iococca (the same Iococcaguy sacked by Ford after the [[Every Car Is a Pinto|Pinto]] disaster) built these boxy, early front-wheel-drive econoboxes from [[The Eighties|the 1981 model year]] to save theChrysler companyfrom frominevitable ruin during a recession and fuel shortage. They were inexpensive, cheap repair parts were plentiful and fuel mileage was good - but they were much less reliable than their Japanese rivals and needed repairs more often. The adfront-wheel campaigndrive hadwas theinnovative companyin president1981, personallybut claimin [[Weretrospect Don'tthe Suckcars Anymore|ifjust youlooked canboxy findand aclunky. betterEven car,with buythe it]]company president on TV inads apersonally insisting [[We Don't Suck Anymore]]|if reminiscentyou ofcan Victorfind Kiam'sa old-stylebetter electriccar, shaversbuy ("it lifts and separates") of the same era. At well under $10k new]], they weren't aimed at millionaires by any stretch of imagination. Clunky and laughable by modern standards, but at the time front wheel drive was an innovation and a radical change from the existing Detroit lineup. A decade later? They didn't hold their resale value.