Start with what the Plymouth Laser is: a 3-door liftback with 1.8 , built from 1989 to 1994, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Plymouth Laser is a two-door 2+2 sports coupe sold by Plymouth from 1989 until 1994. The Laser and its siblings, the Mitsubishi Eclipse and Eagle Talon, were the first vehicles produced under the newly-formed Diamond-Star Motors, a joint venture between the Chrysler Corporation and the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation.
The hardware
The engine is 1.8 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 2531 lb. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic. The wheelbase is 97.2 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Plymouth line-up the Plymouth Laser has a clear place: it replaced the Plymouth Conquest / Chrysler Laser; the factory was Normal, Illinois (Diamond-Star Motors), United States. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Mazda MX-5, the Lexus LS, the Subaru Legacy. Its Plymouth stablemates include the Plymouth XNR and the Plymouth X2S.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Plymouth Laser — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.