The Cordoba almost wore a Plymouth badge: Chrysler drew it up as the Sebring before moving it upmarket to cash in on personal-luxury margins.
Lead trim: Cordoba 318 LA V8
Chrysler Cordoba first generationCORDOBA-1975 · 1975–1979
- 0spots by members
- Unclaimednobody has spotted one yet
- 0sets it belongs to
Nobody in Burbles has spotted a Chrysler Cordoba first generation yet. See one on the street, point the app at it, and the first card is yours — with your @handle permanently credited on this page.
FactThe Cordoba almost wore a Plymouth badge: Chrysler drew it up as the Sebring before moving it upmarket to cash in on personal-luxury margins.
The Cordoba was introduced for the 1975 model year as an upscale personal luxury car, Chrysler's first model produced specifically for that segment and its first vehicle smaller than full-size, competing with the Oldsmobile Cutlass, Buick Regal and Mercury Cougar. It was initially designed as the all-new Plymouth Sebring for 1975 (to share bodies with the Dodge Charger SE); development names Mirada, Premier, Sebring and Grand Era were associated, and after losses from the C-body cars in the 1973 oil crisis it was positioned under the Chrysler brand instead, on the B-body's 115 in (2,921 mm) wheelbase, 9 inches less than the next largest Chrysler. The single-body-style coupé was one of Chrysler's few genuine successes of the 1970s (over 150,000 sold in the inaugural 1975 year, 165,000 in 1976, just under 140,000 in 1977), with Ricardo Montalbán as its spokesman praising its "rich Corinthian leather" interior; the name evoked Córdoba, Spain, though only the name was Hispanic (the emblem is a stylized Argentine cordoba coin). The interior had a velour notchback bench seat standard (Corinthian leather bucket seats optional) with simulated burled elm trim in 1975 and rosewood from 1976. A 1978 restyle with stacked rectangular headlights was viewed as "somewhat tacky", sales declined in 1978–1979 with the smaller LeBaron and rising gas prices, and the car weighed nearly 3,700 lb with the 360 or 400. Engines: 318 cu in (5.2 L) and 360 cu in (5.9 L) LA V8 and 400 cu in (6.6 L) B V8 with a 3-speed A727 automatic; length 215.3 in, width 77.1 in, height 52.6 in. The 1979 "300" package is catalogued as its own generation; the page gives no power figures.
Collectors Spotted in the Chrysler Cordoba Lineage
No member has published a public street spot of the Chrysler Cordoba yet — the First · Worldwide stamp is wide open.
Trims & Figures
3 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cordoba 318 LA V8 | 1975–1979 | 5.2 L V8 | — | — | — | RWD | — | — |
| Cordoba 360 LA V8 | 1975–1979 | 5.9 L V8 | — | — | — | RWD | — | — |
| Cordoba 400 B V8 | 1975–1979 | 6.6 L V8 | — | — | — | RWD | — | — |
Owning one
We don’t estimate running costs for a car like this. What it costs depends on its condition, its specialist and how it is driven, and an average would mislead.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
The E58-code 360 V8 was the hottest engine Chrysler offered in the 1980 Cordoba — and almost nobody bought it: fewer than 100 were ordered before it was quietly dropped.
The second-gen Cordoba's biggest engine, a 360-cubic-inch V8, found so few takers — fewer than 100 orders — that Chrysler dropped it after a single model year.
The 1979 Cordoba 300's white paint and 300-style grille looked like a trim package -- but Chrysler insisted on marketing it as its own standalone model, never as a "Cordoba 300."
The Cordoba almost wore a Plymouth badge: Chrysler drew it up as the Sebring before moving it upmarket to cash in on personal-luxury margins.
Cordoba wasn't always its own car. In 1970 it was just a one-year appearance package on the Chrysler Newport, five years before "Cordoba" became a model of its own.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
The Celica XX, Japan's name for the A60 Supra, introduced the world's first in-car navigation computer.
The CTR Anniversary looks like a 911 but Ruf built its carbon monocoque from scratch, no Porsche body underneath.
The 228's coupe styling hides a sedan underneath: Maserati stretched it onto the longer four-door Biturbo chassis to make room for its biggest V6, which is literally where the name comes from — 2-door, 2.8 litre.
Switching to fuel injection let this V8 finally shed its trademark bonnet bulge — and only 405 of these flat-hooded Series 5 cars were built before the whole model retired in 1989.
Japanese buyers got a secret weapon in their MX-6 — the JDM-only KL-ZE V6 made about 40 more horsepower than the engine sold in the exact same car in North America.
An American tuner, Callaway Cars, built twin-turbo conversions of the GTV6 that boosted its V6 by fifty percent to 230 hp — turning Alfa's grand tourer into something far quicker than the factory ever intended.
Audi TTS Coupe · TTS Coupe (2016–2023) · 2016–2023.
A product of the DaimlerChrysler merger, the Crossfire shares 80% of its parts with the Mercedes-Benz SLK — German bones under American badges.