1990 Chrysler TC by Maserati: Regular Car Reviews
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- We drive a Chrysler TC by Maserati. It's not a LeBarron. I'll tell you five times without you asking. "It's not a LeBarron!" It's a Maserati. My collector commemorative deluxe serving plate collection will be worth something some day!
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This is the “Maserati sports car” that Billy Ray Cyrus talks about in old town road.
lol..but probably not. more like one of the newer FCA owned Maserati's.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@gzuzsavz no its the LeBar- i mean TC By Maserati
Tom Johnson I guess stuff fly’s over your head
Maybe it was a Biturbo he meant
Chrysler TC by maserati, the automotive equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever.
I'm still pist that DNF wasn't open world..no excuse. and to top it off, i played it..half enjoyed it, tbh bc Dukes dialogue mainly, Jon St. John is great. but the day after i beat the game some maggot stole it outta my steam account! ffs. i own a '93 LeBaron convertible..it's far better than DNF. Closer to Serious Sam..js. Fun lil car, reliable, decent mpg.
Except that DNF was a sequel whereas the TC kiiiiiinda wasn't
Thanks, Randy!
Dated a girl in the mid-90's that had one of these; she would go nuclear if someone said "it's a lebaron". Those were my last words to her actually....
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the only woman i can picture exiting a TC is Ginger from Casino, except more worn out and mixed with Snooki.
@@AK-lw2jw ahahahahhaqh I'M DEAD
AK02 casino is that movie!!!
@@AK-lw2jw Henry's wife Lorraine in Goodfellas.
If it drives like a LeBarron, looks like a LeBarron and sounds like a LeBarron... it's probably a TC
*a Maserati
The car that used dealers don’t know if they should sell as a classic car or not
808 perfect
First thing Michigan used car lots do is call a scrap deal to get it out of their site.
Those sharks would definitely sell it as a classic car because someone out there is stupid enough to bite the bait. How do you think Chrysler sold this car to idiots as an overpriced “Italian luxury car” maesrati in the first place.
Lmfao bruh !!!!
They know.....they just do it anyway
Mitsubishi van engine in a chrysler chopped and rearranged k platform BY maserati.
What a multicultural mess. I love it.
I have the same engine my Mitsubishi, it's not bad. If you keep it at low rpms.
@@dillonh321 That's basically a diesel engine without good fuel economy you're talking about haha
@@fevriertheo1414
Yeah. It seems to be rev happy but the power seems to be low in the rpms. If I floor it, it is slower than if I just do half throttle.
Except that you have no clue what you're talking about.
@@omcx1e oh? Please enlighten all of us about this majestic piece of engineering then instead of just saying "u wrong"
And now maserati and chrysler are owned by the same parent company, it has gone full circle
blackandgold51 FIAT is the parent company
I know crazy, right? I was hoping someone else noticed.
In fact the Maserati Ghibli repeated this whole trick. It is a Chrysler with a body kit and some interior doodads.
And Maseratis/Chryslers today grab stuff from the same parts bin, even the engine to some extent
The biggest irony is, since Chrysler owned Lamborghini at the time, the TC (and all Maseratis of the era) had a chance to get Lambo-engineered power under the hood.
But NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOHHHHH. Thanks Lee Iacocca.
The interior is *S O B R O W N*
I couldn't help but read that with Chef Ramsey's voice
The interior is ginger, not brown...
More so than Columbia MD.
DR BROWN!
S E P T I C T A N K
“Luxury means soft” is so absurdly accurate even today
It's not absurdly accurate. It's just accurate. Luxury certainly does not mean hard and cramped.
Luxury means a comfortable ass and room for my balls to breathe.
And we wore an onion in our belts. Because it was the style at the time.
"Luxury", yes.
For old Luxury cars yes
My buddy had one of these. We got it stuck on a tank trail at Camp Lejune and just left it there.
This is quintessentially the essence of Regular Car reviews.
Hmm you probably down vote whenever he doesn't do a random old 90s car
needs more B R O W N
@@JoelEmberson this comment needs more upvotes
Che1seabluesdrogba11 ARE YOU JARGLUS?
no it isnt. what an idiotic, dead brain comment.
My arts teacher in middle school had one of these he rocked a curly skullet and smoked a lot of cigs perfect car for him
I absolutely love how RCR is the type of UA-cam video you can watch in public and no one will ever care because on the screen it's just a Chrysler TC. But the audio...
Until "HOT DICKS" flashes on the screen 3,000 times.
The damn audio . We need good audio bro
@@stevethepocket This happened on a flight I was on. I had to place my phone face down on my tray table and try to keep from laughing until it was over.
@@stevethepocket loooooooool
The Chrysler TC was their answer to the Cimarron by Cadillac.
Uncle Pulltab regrets getting a lebaron instead of this tc
I bet he also regrets trading in his IROC-Z Camaro to get his Lebaron.
He always talks about the letter Q, but I feel as if this isn't what it's for...
Mr. RCR needs to make more Uncle Pulltab references.....change my mind!
@@rebelguy9487 I'll never change your mind... because my mind is set on more uncle Pulltab appearances as well.
Drinking with Uncle Pulltab last night went on a late night beer run to the gas station convenience store where the attractive cashier works. You tell yourself tonight I'm going to balls up and say hi. Right when your about to open your mouth Uncle Pulltab busts in with a lit cigarette, cracks a beer and says hey leaning up on the counter. Attractive cashier desperately looks the other way meanwhile Uncle Pulltab walks out forgetting to pay.
Hah! And with Maserati now selling the Jeep-based Levante, we've come full circle.
This upload time is the last thing I need for my insomnia lmao
"Where's the Italian performance?" What're you talking about? It's a 80s/90s Chrysler, it's completely unreliable! THAT'S Italian performance!
baloney. ive driven many cars of this vintage..fine, reliable cars. oohh..my current summer daily is a whaaat? '93 LeBaron? W/a 3.0L Mitsu? 170k, 26 yrs old and showin no signs of slowin. oops? Italian performance is when just the engine costs what the car in the vid above did.
I have a 92 lebaron convertible..Great car reliable fun 3litre goes like hell. Gets nice comments wherever i go. I've had many Chrysler convertibles.
The best/worst combination of American, Italian, and Japanese engineering....lol I always thought these were fancy LeBarons growing up.
i mean, italian engines, japanese interior and american styling is arguably worse.
This car is probably more reliable than a real Maserati😁😁😁
@@sportmode6438 Literally ANYTHING is more reliable than a piece of trash Maserati, like a a Reliant Robin, or a Yugo.
Chrysler had the right idea in putting together a Japanese drivetrain, as much trouble as American companies had in coming close to the reliability on their own at the time, European luxury interior design, and an American cut-and-paste platform to keep costs down. The car should've been great, and the profit margin on each one should've been near triple digits. But somehow, a great idea went as wrong as it possibly could have. The engine was Mitsubishi's, little better than anything to come out of Detroit in the 80s if not worse, the design and manufacturing were by Maserati, who have always been hilariously incompetent at doing anything in a cost-effective way, and the platform was, well, Chrysler's, so it was unrefined to begin with and they were too lazy and broke to do anything to distinguish it. I think the TC was the failed Alpha test they learned from to later create the better Beta version, the Dodge Stealth, and the wildly successful bug free final product, the DSM cars (yeah, there was an upmarket Chrysler version, and its margins were probably close to what they'd hoped the TC's would be).
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1:22 "And it felt exactly like my dad's old..." *hood slams closed, laughter* "...94 Caravan." 😂Priceless editing there!
Chrysler TC by Maserati: The official car of Guys Trying to Take Home the Applebee’s Bartender.
Rick O’Shay Chrysler TC Maserati: When you loses all the money in the divorce and this is your bounce back
So Tiger Woods has one?
Chrysler TC by Maserati: The official car of Driving Up To The Chris Hansen Decoy House.
Funnily enough I got banned from Applebee's, and I'm trying to buy one of these
Oooh nice alfa in the background at 7:45
Also rcr thanks in general for the videos. As someone living outside of the US, it’s always nice to get to know more about the car industry there
I'm surprised you did a full review of the TC by Maserati without ever mentioning the Cadillac Allanté.
The only thing I remember about the Allante is the Bundy Bounce.
@@kronos6948 NOT A LEBARON!
"the Neeew Allantéééé"
More like the Cimarron "It's not a Cavalier!"
Or the Cadillac ELR "it's not a Chevy volt!"
The owner of our local Chrysler Dodge dealership had one of these on his showroom floor for years. It was his personal car. It stayed on the showroom floor up till 2016, and had 30,000 miles on it. That was the most posh Lebaron I’ve ever seen. Boy the owner got pissed when you called it a Lebaron too.
10:16 Of course it's an Eagles CD, how could it have been anything else?
ON A DARK DESERT HIGHWAY
The Three Tenors would have been funnier.
I'm pretty sure i have seen that head unit in a Jeep
@@nslouka90 and many other chryslers over a near 20 year period
It goes into the player, but it can never come out.
Iacocca has many great ideas and was a true visionary in his industry.
This car was not part of any of that.
Italians dropped the ball..on price..fine car otherwise.
I liked the look of the TC and it's styling has aged better than most of it's peers from the 80's. But I didn't know it had a Mitsubishi engine (the deadbeat of the Japanese automotive industry) or that it's interior was so disgusting looking. But it looked nice from the outside.
Well, we all have our off days, right?
This owner’s Chrysler TCs by Maserati really need at least one Cadillac Allanté and Buick Reatta to keep them company.
Those too were American/European hybrids of sorts that were pretty cool but way complicated in their building and transportation process- built in Europe because.... Marketing, then shipped to the US.
All 3 are very cool cars in their own right but wow building all 3 the way they were built wasn’t a very smart business decision of all of their manufacturers. Then again, that’s part of what make the cars so cool.
*** Update to this: I may have been wrong about the Reatta being built overseas and shipped back. I had thought for sure that there were 2 GM cars that were built that way in the late 80s- early 90s but I now think I was wrong. The Reatta is still a very cool car though and they are definitely rare today.
Ford Capri as well. (Not Foxbody Mercury Capri or 50's Lincoln Capri or the various European Capri's.)
I just noticed a Reatta in my friends neighborhood parked in a driveway the other day. (thinking, wow I haven't seen ones of those in ages) Now suddenly I read all these comments about Reatta's and Allanté and this mashup of the finest engineering of Japanese, Italian and American car companies.. My brain must be in sync with RCR's posting scheduled.
The pinifirina Cadillac ( the Allanté ) was Also a failure but unlike the Chysler the caddy was handsome .
Mr. R quoting Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
I knew I subbed to this channel for nerd culture and cars.
Don't let that distract you from the fact that Under Armour stole their logo from one of Quark's broaches on Deep Space Nine
@@williwonti Well, they apparently had a look at the 12th Rule of Acquisition which states: "Anything worth selling is worth selling twice."
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🏁🏁🏁do you have a recommendation for more races like this?🏎️🏎️🏎️
0:39 🔥💝
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I still LOVE the DS9 quotes regarding the Rules of Acquisition you put into these lol.
Rules of acquisition go as far back as TNG
Zoomzabba yes, but DS9 is where the Ferengi and the “Rules” were really fleshed out and made great. Quark is such a great character and has some of the best commentary on humanity in all of Trek.
@@Citiprime Fair enough.
Mr. Regular sounds happy again I’m glad. 😊
Now that Chrysler and Maserati are both owned by Fiat......Chryslerati reboot 2020?
@Devin Dyer Who ever owns them the company is a dog. Jeep is the only brand worth anything. The cycle just keeps going around like this car junk with a fancy name
If that does happen, watch Maserati's stock plummet
Reboot yes and they probably even use the same tech and "quality finish".
@Devin Dyer It's actually Fiat-Chrysler
yeah it's called Maserati's current model lineup
We had one of these in or automotive class in college nobofy wanted to work on it lol
All I took away from this video is that the Chrysler TC by Maserati is basically a L E B A R O N
it's like saying a 32" 720p tv is the same as a UHD 65".
The Lebaron was better looking with a more tasteful interior.
7:47 I am too distracted by the gorgeous Alfa Giulietta Sprint in the background.
IKR? I hope it was in the day's queue to review!
My first thought when I glanced at the thumbnail: "oh, a LeBaron, huh?"
So... it's a Chrysler with Maserati badge powered by a Mitsubishi engine with Chrysler badge. SO FANCY!
With a TRIDENT inside... a Chrysler Pentastar.
There *were* a limited number built with a 200hp 16v turbo engine that was assembled by Maserati.
so even less reliable?
@@stevenhaas9622, and here you thought
I think there were 501 of those produced
Thise 80-90s turbo 4s were reliable as long as you changed the oil and not to go more than a quart low...the oil cooled turbos hated that...loved my turbo shadow
That involuntary hood slam lmao classic 90s
Nothing like getting guillotined by my LS400 hood. That thing was heavy af
Mark that too lmao hood is like a brick
too cheap to pop new gas arms on it, i guess.
Been on this channel nearly 3 years, this is your best damn video yet sir I applaud you. Mr regular is a gentleman and a scholar
It's a chrysler K++ car.
Hey, if the typical programming syntax applies then K++ is K+K... but you had the P and the L and all the other EEK's first to be K++. or K+K, so this is really (K++)++ or K+K+... uh oh....
The rants in this one were on point 👌🏾 that’s all we want. Good job, my faith in you is restored.
I feel like Mr. Regular’s most hilarious reviews are about Chrysler products.
bh93 Yes including the Dodge Aspen review! Was the first review I saw of his
Chrysler products write their own jokes 🤷♂️
@@CollinWeis Their whole brand is a joke 🤣😂
The Dodge Avenger review is still my favorite
I really enjoy the 8:40 gaspy old man voice impressions. I want a whole video done in that voice.
TC by Maseratti........ when your other car is a Geo Metro convertible
or another TC
Geo Metro convertible with a Sprint turbo engine swap. And a trailer hitch for pulling your grill-trailer to everyone else's cookout.
Geo Metro convertible: When you no longer fear death.
The Chrysler TC by Maserati : the official car of "Grandpa is living it up this weekend, Sonny....no Budweiser for me, I got a sixer of Michelob Light!
I drive on Route 66 everyday through McCook Illinois and there's 2 burgundy ones parked together infront of a body shop😋
Quoting the Rules of Acquisition? Damn didn't know Mr. Regular was a Ferengi
Compared to their turbo fours this was s a smooth operator. I always liked it and still do, and that interior is beautiful
Paul M
Yes the 3.0 Mitsubishi motor was a good motor. I had one in a caravan with 280K miles that still ran strong.
I think Maserati actually did the interior and other assembly
Tom Johnson
Awesome!!
@@chrisj197438 thnx!
This is everything I love about RCR. Perfect
The peanut butter interior is really nice
Butterscotch, because it's old man classy.
It's called Ginger.
I agree I'm a big fan of brown car and beige interior and rouged leather seats no matter how bad the car is ..I'm sold .and its just 80sTacky and cheesy enough to be be cool .The haters will keep the values down just enough to make it more affordable for me ...so cheers.
this has been one of my favorite commentaries by you
Does the TC by Maserati give you a peaceful easy feeling? You know it won't let you down.
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Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
I doubt you're living life in the fast lane.
But deep down you know its... Already Gone.
@@idriwzrd in that case you can just take it easy.
From the first line to the last, Mr. Regular just described Bremen, Georgia.
@ThePatUltra My bad on the late comment; I was attending UWG when you made it! I'm still on the Square about once a week in a red MR2 Spyder. You?
1:23 is the definite highlight of this video
Liam Pepper what about 7:45? The only part of the video that didn't make me feel nauseous
"Everybody rock your Masarati.".- loved that intro.
hey regular i was gonna call you a nerd for the star trek reference but then I realized I was a nerd for noticing it so instead.... cool star trek reference dude
i swear i love this guys review, it’s entertaining and you learn some car history
I really love this car, is one of my dream cars.
Believe me you are the best. You not only review cars but create an ambiance and a life to the whole thing.
These cars are crazy safe!
My dad had one. T-boned by a semi and got wrapped around a poll. He walked away with 2 staples.
Good for your dad, but this is just anecdotal evidence. A car this old is not crazy safe, it's a death trap by any modern standards.
no1DdC by today’s standards yea it’s a death trap but by 90s standards it’s pretty great!
Why did he take the staples with him after the crash, were they in the glove box
no1DdC comparing it to cars made almost thirty years later is also a poor excuse for "evidence".
John Ennis lmao. Like stitches
Well done for making me laugh like a drain through the whole thing. Excellent work.
Doo whop metal gear. Hell yeah.
Was looking for that Metal Gear comment! Haha
I knew I wasn't crazy for hearing metal gear!
I love the Ferengi references. I learn as much about the Ferengi, “Rules of Acquisition,” psychology, and master bating on your channel as I do about cars. Keep it coming...
The 90s Americn car market is like being gently water boarded slowly.
Like having drops of water pipetted into your mouth whilst already sleeping, over a period of 6 months.
A very slow, dull, monotonous, dangerous thing thats drawn out to the point that you don't even know you've died of depression until it's occurred.
Better a pippet of water than semen ehh?
The late 90's Camaro and Trans Am was sort of a highlight, probably the only decent American cars besides the Corvette and Viper from the era.
a lot of nuance in these comments and nostalgia, got a new subscriber.
How dare you insult Executive Decision
*E X E C U T I V E D E C I S I O N*
GET OFF MY PLANE
astronmr20 ITS JUST BEEN REVOKED
This is the best review you've done in 6 months. Lawnmover conversation/headphone talker/Gary Glitter references were spot on
The beginnings of FCA. Now I have a new reason to call a new Maserati, an expensive Dodge.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles?
Or Ferengi Commerce Authority?
I can hear the 604 snorting into first gear as we speak. Some of them had a 2.2 Turbo with a Maserati 16v head. Glad none of them stayed running long enough to make it into my stall.
Where's your LaBaron Freddy?
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY
proud
Love my American cars, and this one is on the top ten list with the wood and leather and tons of buttons. Oh yes!
Do the Mid 90's Monte Carlo.. Great cars but nobody likes them
You mean the 2 door Lumina lol I'm a Die hard Monte Carlo fan and I don't count those. Even though the 2000 on up was just a 2 door Impala mechanically, it at least didn't look like it until the 2006-07 front end.
beulahboi all those cars were just tatted up luminas....
Front wheel drive =NOT A MONTE!
Unless you’re a NASCAR fan.
I think it was chevys attempt to hush the popularity of the grand prix in the mid 90s, either that or holden over mass production of the lumina body vs actual sales prompted for them to revive the monte carlo name to get rid of the lumina bodies that holden shipped over
Saw one of these driving around my town that looked exactly like this after seeing this video and had to come back to mention it.
..I had just watched his KITT review a few hours before this vid, interesting...
God bless you Roman, I recognized the cadence of that closing song, and I appreciated it.
As a former driver of a TC, I always knew this day would come.
And yet, even seeing it on this video, it still looks like a beautiful car to me.
I still have actual nightmares about driving it though. You had to start braking EARLY to come to a stop in time, and the buttons would disappear into the dash when you pressed them. Plus only a handful of Chrysler dealers sent their technicians to Italy to get trained on how to work on it.
@@DanCapostagno brakes on my '93 LeBaron are fine. Maybe use decent pads? dunno about the buttons either, mine are all fine, 26 yrs old..170k..wisc car with no rust bc never in the salt.
@@gzuzsavz Thanks for the reply. The interiors were totally different on the leBaron and the TC, with the assembly being in a different factory. Similarly, the materials were different; American consumers by this point had expectations of durability and had shifted to modern materials and manufacturing; whereas the deTomaso folks running Maserati at the time were still thinking of a different consumer. The leather was of the glove-leather quality, but that also means it disintegrated at a faster rate, and bespoke interior finishing, while great for bragging rights, is not as reliable in most cases. There's a reason we don't assemble cars that way anymore, not even at Maserati. The fit-and-finish on that generation of Maseratis was noticibly bad, even though I love them aesthetically.
You're probably right about the brakes though, the original pads could've been swapped out.
@@DanCapostagno Ahh, good info, thnx. & yeah, vintage Maserati's look cool. ive never been snobbish about fit & finish myself..who cares? is it reliable, does it kick ass and look good doing it? ok! lol. leather..at least the stuff used in any old mopar ive ever bought has always looked amazing after 20 yrs, tons of miles...i buy cars with about 100-150k on them and drive them..i usually get 5-10 yrs before they get too rusty, bc wisc.
Vehicle Capacity Weight: 415 lbs
Hoo boy.
Oh no.
1.5 Fat Italians
@ThePatUltra THAT'S GENIUS😝
entropy11 Everyone ignores weight capacity and trailer tow capacity anyway. It’s not like the car will fold if 416 lbs are loaded.
Grandmas...brown....
You guys are on top of your game. This was one hundred percent pure RCR essence.
That car looks brand new...
A lot of them do still look nice. They didn't suffer from the crappy paint process Chrysler used in the 80's. They also were very expensive by the standards of the time, so people took care of them more than other Chrysler products.
Know a guy in town who has TWO OF THESE. He's selling one, and I'm legit considering buying it.
oh my word, this is likely one of your best.
Back in the day I never liked those cars, but I liked knowing what they were. What's the mystery to everybody else and it sounded like I knew what I was talking about.
*5 AM gang shoutout*
I've seen every review on this channel dozens of times... this is the best by far.
You need serious help, he hates everything and is about as entertaining as a tooth ache
Should have found a TC with the 16v DOHC 2.2L intercooled turbo, with Getrag 5 speed manual transmission, to do a review on. They're a lot more rare than the 3.0 v6 auto cars, but WAY more fun to drive.
..i srsly want to drop an SRT4 mill in my '92 LeBaron convert. figure go with approx stage 3 engine specs. should hit 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, just like the sedan. ...oh & just as quick as the 'treat them like metal gods or die!!!' Nissan R34 GT-R. lol.
Kid: “Mom, can we get a Maserati?”
Mom: “We have a Maserati at home.”
Maserati at home:
idk what's ur problem, I think 11am is a nice time to upload :)
4 am for me
This car is the reason my father chose a Mercury Grand Marquis over a Lincoln Town Car the same year...much to my dismay.
@10:35; LOL I just SAID that to myself before YOU did! NYAH-NYAH!
Chrysler TC by Maserati. If the Betamax was a car
Betamax was a better format than VHS..smaller and better vid quality. no idea how VHS won out.
@@gzuzsavz A beta tape only held 1 hour of video.
@@s.sestric9929 ahh. so the was the reason..not enough room for a feature film on one. thnx. but the LeBaron was not a bad car..my '93 drop top is fabulous, my summer daily, rn..170k and still cruising, just fine.
I found one of these with low mileage at an import lot…
It was still parked behind a 100,000 mile Oldsmobile Opera…
It looks cool at the back
And thats about it
Did anyone else notice the red Cisitalia in the background of the parking lot?
Chrysler also sold them with the Turbo IV engine turned up to 200 hp and the 5 spd Getrag manual. Those actually WERE cool!
You should review an Allante.
I owned one and it's one of my favorite cars
That narration over the hood drop is fucking gold. Pure gold.
those seats...
Some of them had a turbo II engine with a special Maserati head that made 200hp which would have been respectable at the time.
does this man sleep?
Somewhere at a very distant bar Quark is watching this review and his lobes are tingling with excitement.