Plymouth
This is the catalogue record of the Plymouth Duster, one of 57 models Plymouth has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1969. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Plymouth Duster properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Range Rover Range Rover, the American Motors Corporation AMC Gremlin, the Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki Jimny — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Plymouth Duster reads like this: the record lists its engine as 198 cuin Chrysler Slant 6 engine / Slant 6 Straight-six engine / I6 / 225 cuin Slant 6 I6 / 318 cuin Chrysler LA engine#318 V8 / LA V8 engine / V8 / 340 cuin Chrysler LA engine#340; drive goes through 3-speed manual transmission / manual / 4-speed manual / 3-speed TorqueFlite automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, 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 1,332,846 units, which makes it one of the industry's true mass-production stories.
Within Plymouth's own catalogue the Plymouth Duster sits alongside the Plymouth XNR (1950), the Plymouth Laser, the Plymouth X2S, the Plymouth Colt Vista. The record names the Plymouth Valiant Barracuda as its predecessor and the Plymouth Volare (United States) / Plymouth Gran Fury / Plymouth Caravelle coupe (Canada) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Milt Antonick and Neil Walling. Assembly is recorded at United States: Hamtramck, Michigan (Dodge Main / Dodge Main Plant) / United States: Commerce, California (Los Angeles (Maywood) Assembly / Los Angeles Plant) / United States: Fento.
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.
The catalogue records what the Plymouth Duster 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.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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