That ended with the 1957 redesign, where all Chrysler brands again shared a single platform. Brand differences were carried out for the cars' front ends, especially. Rear ends also differed. In the 1930s and '40s, such differences might have been as trivial as taillight shapes, but rear end styling gradually became more distinctive thereafter. For 1957, styling supremo Vergil Exner decreed that tail fins would be a signature Chrysler Corporation feature. The result was that most brands had distinctive fin shaping, as seen in side views.
Below are side views of a four-door sedan from each of Chrysler's five brands.
Chrysler Corporation's luxury brand received touches not found on lesser brands. The windshield wraps at the top as well to the sides. Also, the C-pillar in slanted, not vertical as seen in all the images below. Imperials' wheelbases were three inches (76 mm) longer than Chryslers, for example, and this length was in the form of a stretched passenger compartment for greater rear seat legroom.
From here down through the Corporation's brand-prestige ranks, the passenger compartment greenhouses are the same.
Same wheelbase as the Chrysler New Yorker.
Four inches (102 mm) less wheelbase than the Chrysler and DeSoto above. The cut is in the form of a shorter front end.
Another four-inch (102 mm) wheelbase reduction here. Note the various distances between the forward front door cutline and the front wheel openings.
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