The Chrysler New Yorker nameplate was moved to a front-wheel-drive stretched K-car platform for the 1983 model year, but the old rear-wheel-drive M-body car, a platform mate to the Dodge Diplomat and Plymouth Gran Fury, soldiered on through the rest of the decade as the New Yorker Fifth Avenue.
For the 1990 model year, the old RWD platform was finally put out to pasture, having lived long enough to become the last passenger car in the US with a live rear axle located by a pair of semi-elliptical leaf springs.
The New Yorker Fifth Avenue nameplate was now used on a FWD New Yorker that had been given a 5" wheelbase stretch for more rear legroom. It can be distinguished not only by the "Fifth Avenue" script badges, but by the longer rear door with its opera window, like on this Bright White 1993 car. This sample has aftermarket wheels, the headlight doors have packed it in, and it's a little tatty around the edges, but it's still out there fetching groceries.
So in the early '90s the New Yorker nameplate was used on the cheaper New Yorker Salon, the regular New Yorker Landau, and the glitzier, stretched New Yorker Fifth Avenue.
Under the hood was Chrysler's all-new 3.3L pushrod V-6, featuring sequential multiport fuel injection and making 150 SAE net horsepower.
1993 was the final year for the C-body New Yorker. It was already sharing space on the lot at Chrysler dealerships with the new cab-forward LH-platform Chrysler Concorde and would be replaced with an LH-based New Yorker in the 1994 model year.
This one was photographed with a Sony a700 and 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 Zeiss lens in June of 2025.
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