Hey! It's A Brand New DeSoto Truck!

Looks like they’re building them in Turkey. I’m guessing from the url that it’s a Chrysler product, but why the make survives there and not the US is beyond me.

Gee don’t you remember. They didn’t sell.

No, because they stopped making them before I was born. :stuck_out_tongue:

Why keep the brand alive in Turkey, of all places, though? Why not just kill it everywhere at once? I can’t imagine that there would have been enough customers in Turkey back in the 60s to justify slapping the DeSoto nameplate on a warmed over Plymouth, Chrysler, or Dodge.

Chrysler in Turkey

Well I guess I really don’t know. Maybe bacause the Turks haven’t remamed it like the Japaneese did when they took Rambler parts and made Toyotas.

Day-um. That is one seriously ugly vehicle.

I wonder if you can buy them with Maria Theresia thalers!? :smiley:

Cool! My great aunt had one of the last Studebakers ever built – kept that car running smoothly until she finally had to give up driving due to glaucoma in the early 80s.