Chrysler K platform

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{{Infobox Automobile platform | name = K-body | aka = | manufacturer = Chrysler Corporation | production = 1981–1995 | predecessor = F-body
M-body | successor = PL
JA
LH | class = Compact car
Mid-size car
Full-size car | layout = FF layout | body_style = 2-door convertible
2-door coupe
3-door hatchback
4-door sedan
4-door station wagon
5-door hatchback | engine = 2.2 L I4
2.5 L I4
2.6 L Mitsubishi I4
3.0 L Mitsubishi V6
3.3 L V6
3.8 L V6 }}

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The Chrysler Corporation's K-Car platform of the 1980s ranks as one of the most overt uses of platform sharing in automotive history. Chrysler even advertised the K-Cars as a group, using the term in publications, and put "K" badges on some models. They later advertised the LH cars similarly, but with lesser emphasis.

Technically, only the Dodge Aries, Plymouth Reliant, Chrysler LeBaron, and the Dodge 400 used the K platform. The rest of the group had different platforms based on the K. The famed Chrysler minivans were also based on the K platform to a lesser extent. The "last of the K-cars" was the long-hood fixed-headlight LeBaron convertible that was superseded in the 1996 model year by the "cab-forward" Chrysler Sebring convertible.

It should be noted that Chrysler often reused platform designations; thus the E platform based on the K cars was unrelated to the company's E platform of the early 1970s. The following cars used the K platform and its variants:

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K-cars in popular culture

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