Chrysler Royal

This is the catalogue record of the Chrysler Royal, one of 144 models Chrysler has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

The record does not fix a firm introduction year for the Chrysler Royal, which is itself informative: cars without a clean launch date are usually prototypes, coachbuilt specials, or models whose history was written down long after the fact. The catalogue keeps them anyway, because the odd corners of the record are where the interesting machines hide.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Chrysler Royal reads like this: the record lists its engine as 240.33 CID Chrysler I8 (1931) / 273.8 CID Chrysler I8 (1933) / 298.65 CID Chrysler I8 (1932) / 228.1 CID Chrysler I6 (1937–1938) / 241.5 CID Chrysler I6 (1939–1942); kerb weight is recorded at related = Chrysler Imperial / Chrysler Windsor / Chrysler Airflow / DeSoto S-Series; the layout is Rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear. Production is recorded at 509,874 units, which makes it a solid production run.

Its place in the Chrysler story

Within Chrysler's own catalogue the Chrysler Royal sits alongside the Chrysler Falcon, the Chrysler Chronos, the Chrysler Sunbeam, the Chrysler Avenger. The record names the Chrysler Six as its predecessor and the Chrysler Airflow (1934) / Chrysler Windsor (six cylinder engine) / Chrysler Saratoga (eight cylinder engine) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Assembly is recorded at Jefferson Avenue Assembly / Detroit, Michigan, United States.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Chrysler Royal was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.