1998 Plymouth Breeze Review - The Downfall Of The Plymouth Brand
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Drivetrain
2:26 - Interior
3:52 - BFB Test
4:16 - Interior
5:02 - Back Seats
6:07 - Trunk / Cargo Space
6:44 - Exterior
7:27 - Final Thoughts
11:37 - Outro - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
I've always loved the way they named these cars. When you start at the bottom level car, you arrive at the Breeze. When you go a little higher, you arrive at the Stratus. When you go to the highest level model, you arrive at the Cirrus. If you know about cloud patterns and elevations, it was a clever naming ideology. ☁️
The cloud cars
If they wanted to go the whole 9 yards with that they would have named the Plymouth the Cumulus, as a breeze is not a cloud type
Wow, when I was a teenager my friend had a Breeze. We all ran the wheels off that ride. Took lots of country cruises to smoke in it, brings back so many memories 😂
I owned a blue Plymouth Breeze. Awful car. If you look at it from the side you can see why it was called the new “cab forward” design.
LMAO, i wanna take a spin in and feel the Breeze! 😂
@@tommyh.8391why didn’t you maintain it to make it a good car ?
It’s nice to see a well taken care of one still looking factory fresh! So many I saw even 10 years ago were rusted and all clapped out 😂
I had a 97 Stratus with the 2.0 and a 5-spd manual. The interior was just like this one. I always thought the seating position, controls, and ergonomics were really great. It handled great, as good as an Accord of the time, and the suspension design copied the double-wishbone of the Honda. The interior had a lot of plastic, but that and those seats were very durable and easy to clean. The back seat and trunk were huge at the time. I got 40+ mpg on the highway man times, fully loaded with 3 passengers and stuff. You didn't unscrew that trunk floor cover, if you did, you'd find a FULL SIZE spare.
This car is a gem a real fossil I love it when you review cars that they no longer make anymore
That green is fantastic. I like the late 90s car colors. Plymouth also had a purple that was pretty distinctive. Plymouth was supposed to be the cheap brand but it ended up in a GM situation where three brands are selling essentially the same car. GM at least restyled the exteriors but Chrysler would sometimes just stick a different logo on the nose and call it good.
Coming from a Chrysler/Plymouth family, that radio might have a second level of presets. I don't remember how it worked but each button could have two presets assigned to it. I don't remember how to switch between them. I guess press it twice. The built-in car seat is interesting and pretty unique in a sedan. These things used to be everywhere and the ones that survived lasted surprisingly long.
That logo brings back memories. My mom bought a purple Voyager minivan shortly after I was born and had it for several years. Coming from the cheap brand, it had power locks and A/C but crank windows and no keyless entry. That gray fabric looks the same.
Colors generally are fantastic lol. I'm so sick of almost everything being white, black, or grey.
"GM situation" 😂😂😂
my oldest brother had a 96 breeze when he was in high school in the early 2000's. the memory that impacts me most from that car was the time he ripped ass and locked all of the power windows (his had power windows) and suffocated us while he was cackling maniacally.
Lmao 😂
😂🤣
this is why window locks should be illegal in cars 😅
So he inhaled the Breeze? 😆😂🤣
My grandma had a '97 Chrysler Cirrus LXi in a similar metallic green with the V6 and perforated leather. Loved that car. My family almost bought it from her but it was a gutless wonder and the final nail was when we saw how poorly these cars scored in IIHS crash safety. That Cirrus lasted in someone else's care until 2019.
I had the Cirrus, a V6 99 LXi, My mom bought it for me for my 16th birthday, a 2 year old lease turn-in. I LOVED that car.
The reason for that fresh to recirculation dial is because it wasn't electric. I had to have mine repaired.
I remember renting this car although it had the power package in about 2000. It qualified as perfectly adequate
I can't remember the last time I ever saw a breeze, they're pretty rare. I wish plymouth was still around today. I can see them bringing back the Barracuda since the Challenger came back. I'm sure plymouth would've turned it into a hellcat
I have a white 1998 dodge stratus es trim. It's fully loaded with power windows, locks, power seat, power mirrors, cruise, v6 engine and leather. Yes leather. Also it has the factory key fob for the keyless entry. That was a big deal to have in the 90's lol. I it bought from the original owner's daughter a couple of years ago. It is in good shape. Inside is like brand new.
I always loved the Chrysler Stratus , they were sold new here in Uruguay, obviously not very popular with that "Big" V6 engine in a country were a 1.8 is consider big, even back in the 90s. But everytime i saw one on the streets was an amazing site. We also had the Taurus V6 from the late 90s, another rare site because of engine size and sale price. Strange here but furniture there.
“Haha, U r gay”
Homer Simpson
Same here in Brazil. They sold like hot pockets in the 90's. Nowadays, I hardly ever see one around.
Cool to see the sailboat Plymouth logo on the steering wheel. Our first family car was a 1999 Plymouth Voyager and it had the star pentagon Daimler Chrysler logo on the steering wheel.
Honestly if Plymouth lived long enough to sell the pt cruiser they would be still around today. Or at least last a little before or after the Great Recession
Selling the PT under Plymouth would be like putting a band aid on a gunshot wound
I kinda like the styling of that car, especially with the color. It was definitely a throw away fleet car, one of the only ones that hasn’t been scrapped.
7:13 I actually like how these look lol
same here! might be nostalgia talking since my mom had a red one when i was a kid though
@@kalkalico my mom had a 96 civic when I was a kid and these kinda remind me of it
Mercedes owned Chrysler at the time - DailmerChrysler and since Plymouth cars weren't selling well they decided to shut down the Plymouth brand. They were Chrysler Plymouth dealers
And now chrysler themselves is dying as a brand since they literally only have 1 car, the pacifica after the 300 gets discontinued this year
@@celsovera91 since Fiat bought them Chrysler/Dodge haven't come out with any new models. They are about the discontinue the Charger/Challenger leaving Dodge with just one car. Those cars are going to be electrified. Stalantis could kill one of those brands
@@davinpThe Durango and the Hornet so not just one lol
@@davinpthey're still making the Durango for now so two Dodges (hornet and durango)
@@celsovera91 They truly are anybody who's smart should buy one of the 2023 300's with the 485hp 6.4 v8 right now before they don't exist and people are trying to get them like crazy!
The Plymouth Breeze has always been my go-to car to use for submissions for local car meet cover pages on FB. I'll never forget Summer of 2020, there was a cover photo contest held , the commenter with the most likes, their photo would be the group page's cover photo for the whole month. This was locally the more popular car meet group pages , so chances of me winning is slim. I used the original low quality Kelly blue book/edmuds stock image of the Breeze over the new high quality one as my submission while owners in the community were posting their Skylines and one guy with a RE Rx7 sema build he just finished . They had a head start but the Breeze began to gain steam later in the day and catch up on the thread. Others on the thread started to notice this low quality Breeze photo may actually win and gave 1 like to contribute. By time the voting ended. I had won by a landslide with 41 likes. I was sleep when the admin tried pulling a fast one and not approving it as the photo was not of "cover page sizing format" but luckily a good friend of mine was there resized it and the admin had to honor it. After it was posted I drafted up a long thank you speech commemorating this victory as if I actually own the car which I don't.
That’s awesome, the Breeze is amazing machinery! 😀
Nice to let the "cloud cars" get some attention! Thank you for uploading this. have a same color 97' Chrysler Stratus on youtube with the 2.0 liter and 5 speed stick shift (european verson, but mine has the more loaded Cirrus spec). It's the best car I've ever had, and I put about 100K miles on it from 2018 to 2022. Now, I'm keeping it from the Norwegian winters, to save it from the rust. Think it will become an interesting classic one day, one that nobody thought about until they see one.
My friend drove a white Plymouth Breeze Expresso trim in high school. He treated that car like absolute crap, but for some strange reason I was always fascinated with it.
My mom had a '98 Dodge Stratus with the 2.4L. She almost bought a Breeze but told her she could get more things in the Dodge for just paying a few hundred more.
I love these because theyre one of the last Plymouth models produced before their death in '01. This is an insanely clean unit, most of these were abused and thrown in the scrap yard many years ago. I would totally own this car as a Plymouth fan/enthusiast.
I absolutely love your “regular” car reviews brother!!! You’ll always be my favorite TH-camr for car reviews
Those hubcaps ❤. I swear they were available for every Plymouth model during that era
They still have knockoffs of these at Walmart and auto parts stores. They have for over 20 years
I'm a big Mopar guy and I've always loved the Plymouth brand. These are so rare, I've been looking for one for a long time and back in October 2022 I found one in decent condition then in December 2022, someone hit me and of course the insurance company totaled it. 😡
So since then I've been keeping an eye out for another Breeze or Neon.
I find kinda curious that even the Breeze being from Plymouth, the "low-cost" brand of Chrysler Corporation back in the period, they still bothered to keep a fake wood grain frame around the radio, which its fancier siblings, the Stratus and the Cirrus, also had.
Actually, it came with this cheapo plastic cover and I stole this woodgrain one out of a Cirrus at the junkyard 😂
@@dylandill4582 Oh!
I see!
Well, that makes sense now, hahah! 😁
I was like "wait a minute, why is this Plymouth with a fancy plastic wood trim?!"
By the way, pretty nice car, very well preserved! 😎👍
SLEEZE BREEZE! I had a few of those years ago. Same awful A604 as every Chrysler but these cars had "torque monitoring" which would retard the ignition timing when it would shift and that very much helped the transmissions last longer.
IT HAS THE BABY SEAT?! That's AWESOME!
How to fix that I want to put turbo and forge internals in my breeze
When I was a kid my auntie worked at a gas station and sold a dude a lottery ticket worth millions and he bought her this same exact car but purple 😹
My first car was a Plymouth Neon Espresso. It had the 150hp motor the Neon R/T came with . I loved that car.
I had a cirrus burgundy with gray interior n the v6 it was cool for the time but a joke looking back but it never left me stranded everything worked n I sold it for 1k to buddie with a dented quarter panel n rear bumper
My aunt had the Chrysler version sold in Europe, it ended up burning oil and being very expensive to fix after 10 years or so. Here in Europe most non car people thought it was a Mercedes or a Jaguar.
Plymouth: aka Chrysler's mercury
Or Chrysler’s Oldsmobile.
More like Chryslers Saturn. Nothing mid grade luxury about 90's Plymouths.
Plymouth was supposed to be the cheap brand. Chrysler was like Mercury or Buick and Dodge was like Pontiac.
Hey Zack, Nicholas here with the 1984 Trabant! My dad used to have a Plymouth Breeze in white. TERRIBLE car, even by my Trabant enthusiast standards. Can't make a list of what was wrong with the car without you or others questioning how on earth I survived my childhood! 🤣🤣
Great memories, great review!
You need a big friggin box you can use to measure truck space. Great review, forgot the car even existed.
My friend's family used to own Chrysler Cirrus. It had a Mitsubishi v6 engine. Great ride
I got my 1998 breeze 10 ysr ago. It now has 210,000 miles original engine and trans and still daily driver. It has 2.4 DOHC. The 2,0 was determined not strong enough for the breeze as its a little bigger car than the noen. The steering was advertised as a revolutionary new system. The cab forward design allowed more leg room. Feels like a bigger car, Although this didnt allow room for the battery in the engine compartment. So its inconveniently in the wheel well. You have to take off the wheel and fender well liner to access. The interior has held up well. Which is amazing for a 25 yr old car. The trans has a bad reputation but i havent had any problem with mine. The engine was well built to last this long. I really liked the boat when i first saw it too, however its not the mayflower lol its just a sail small sail boat. Oh and the car is white so the color is not dated. The point is this has been a very reliable car for me and i recommend this car. Everything still works a/c, elec windows etc. Good job on this video btw. I didnt know there was any of these left on the road lol.
Had a Breeze back in the day one of the upper ones. Good dependable commuter, drove it across the country a couple of times trouble free.
Dated a girl who drove one. Total piece of 💩, classic 90s Chrysler junk car! It broke down all the time, cheaply put together. The car was plagued by electrical problems and couldn’t keep a dash without a warning light coming on. The transmission went out at 20ish thousand miles, and brake booster around 8thousand miles.
Honestly a shame how plymouth went down so hard. Wish that Chrysler never abandonend them so early. If they gave them the PT Cruiser it could've saved the brand for atleast a few more years.
If giving them the PT Cruiser isn't life support I don't know what is. No one wants an ultra cheap Dodge when Asian brands exist.
If they were given the pt cruiser I think they still would've went under eventually. Probably during the recession of 08
I sure do like your intro music. That original music you created?
Love the final thoughts portion of your videos. Lots of great info and history!
Had new for my daughter. It was a very good automobile. No issues I recall. Thank you..From Clearwater Beach Florida. USA
I love the "Not a Stratus" scrawled on the back window.
We had a 1995 Chrysler Cirrus, the upscale cousin of the Breeze. Not the greatest as far as NVH goes, but pretty fun to drive with the upgraded suspension and larger engine.
My mom had a final year Plymouth Voyager, and man. What an absolute piece of shit that thing was. Late '90s Chrysler was pretty bad in general, but Plymouth was especially hopeless. My parents bought it when Plymouth was having their going out of business fire sale, because it was literally cheaper to buy new than to get a used Sienna. This was literally the only new car they've ever purchased. It was pretty much the most base model possible, the only real "options" that it had were A/C and a tape deck. No power anything, including locks, but the dealer had some parts left over and installed them for free. Just one sliding door. The horrible 4cyl/auto that did everything in its power to keep you from getting to your destination. The interior felt like it was made out of melted Happy Meal toys, and had an odor to match. The strut towers had to be replaced because they came pre-rusted, along with the rest of the structural parts of the car. The A/C broke itself horribly, because of course it did. It drove like a container ship, despite being shorter than most sedans. I loved spending my childhood riding around in that car, but I can't say I was exactly disappointed to see it go.
I remembered seeing this car in this dark purple color in the mall in the mid 90’s. I liked the seats in the car. It had a little spectrum of colors in the seats. It was a car that I liked.
Could literally pass as npc traffic in GTA 3 because the shape is so similar to the Chrysler 300m, which the Kuruma is imitating.
Point is, it looks like 2000s nostalgia more than anything else even for me, and I'm european.
my dad has had one, exact same year, color and engine and the base model as well,, since 2006 and gave it to me as my first car about 4 years ago. it is still going strong with 260k miles and i love the car.
Well the final Plymouth car built was a Neon on June 28, 2001. And really, there were very minimal differences between the Dodge and Plymouth Neons.
this is the car I learned to drive on (though it had the 2.4 DOHC engine)
Also, the cupholder in the back can hold two cups, the second pulls out)
It's impressive that it is this nice after so many years.
There’s just something about these junky Chrysler products from the 90s that I love, they have a charm.
The first Plymouth I drove was a 72 Duster. The last was a 78 (Mitsubishi) Sapporo. I liked the weather cars like this one.
My first car was a 1998 Breeze, purple, with the 2L 5 speed. Loved that car. It was actually super reliable and that basic stereo was amazing. Actually kinda miss that car.
The Chrysler Cloud cars - Chrysler Cirrus, Dodge Stratus and Plymouth Breeze where Chrysler's first new sedans since retiring the K car platform. They didn't sell as well as Chrysler had hoped. They are certainly not as good as Toyota or Honda
A white one of these is what my first boss rolled in. His was in a sorry state, but the car was a perfect match. Rotten to the core and so was he.
I’ve actually been wanting to get one for a while, especially in the 90’s chrysler purple.
Had the 2.4 + auto. Compared to other options at the price range it was tremendous value. Drove the snot out of it. Had typical head oil leak issue that was fixed.
I remember these cars, my aunt used to have a 2000 Chrysler Cirrus LXi.
My auto tech class had a Breeze Expresso in purple. I learned a lot from that car, we must have pulled everything off that car and put it back on. Hopefully it's still teaching students.
I had a Breeze and loved it. I was forced to trade it in due to a problem with my wife's car and new baby. It was a great little car that was cheap to own and run. Mine had the 5 speed and built in child seat. I would buy one now....including this one instead of many other cars. Is the car for sale?
I have a 2000 chrylser cirrus with a 2.4 auto and idk why but it boggs under full throttle idk why but if anyone has had the same happen lemme know
Love these cars. My great uncle Dean had one. Love riding in it.
I was wondering if you'd be super-excited to drive this thing. Turns out, yes. Yes you were! 😀Seriously though, I always liked these Chrysler "cloud cars," even the lowly Plymouth version.
One of my relatives had one that looked exactly like that even the same color. I think calling this the downfall of Plymouth is unfortunately accurate. The Plymouth acclaim outsold the Dodge Spirit and interestingly enough the spirit had the special RT version that was faster than the SHO Taurus of its era. I think one of the mistakes was to decide that only Dodge in Chrysler were allowed to have a V6 engine. I think part of the problem was that they didn't have a large enough engine bay to fit a more appropriate V6 for the class as a 2.5 Mitsubishi was practically as powerful as a 2.4 4 cylinder. I think a great way to have done it to reach different clientele for the brands would have been if they could have fit the 3.3 from the minivans in the Plymouth and used a lower tuned 3.5 from the LH cars in the Dodge and Chrysler versions.
My first car was 1996 Plymouth Breeze with the 2.0 sohc i missed that car it was a great first car.
I bet myself $10 you were going to mention 'macaroni styling' at some point in this video. I now owe myself $10.
Why does the car have a Kentucky front plate and an Indiana rear plate?
Much like Oldsmobile and Mercury, I miss Plymouth.
the car I learned how to drive in was a green 1999 Dodge Strautus love these cars
I have a 98 manual Sentra....2 trim levels up from base and I still don't have a tachometer 😂
Why are there two different plates on the car? One from Indiana and the other from Kentucky
My dad had a black 97 Breeze. He almost 200k miles on it and only had to replace a starter.
Had one of these back in high school for a bit until the engine quit lol
The big bottle test is a bit skewed. Some cupholders are big enough but then have issues with the console, brake, or shifter. You might want to do some more research about the cars and options...
Plymouth was doomed just like Oldsmobile; a few rebadged models and became the forgotten child behind Eagle and Dodge, once Chrysler bought AMC. The LH cars were marketed under Chrysler, Dodge and Eagle…Plymouth didn’t get a version. Ironically, Eagle was phased out just before Plymouth was. I have a couple of Plymouth models, and 84 Reliant and a 93 Voyager. In my family many of our cars were Plymouth branded. My dads 2nd, 3rd and 4th cars were all Dusters, and predictably his all time favorites.
yes! More 90s and 00s cars!
The cars that these replaced was the AA body 1989-1995 Dodge Spirit/Plymouth Acclaim. The 1989-1995 Dodge Spirit/Plymouth Acclaim outsold these 10 to 1.
Ok so where’s it from? Indiana plates on the back Kentucky on the front
My dad rented one of thease when he got into a car accident with his caravan.. didn’t like it lol said there wasn’t enough room
He says it fails when it clearly fits....would it stand up..no, it would fall over...but it fits enough in my eyes.
I have a '99 Breeze with about 90K miles on it. I guarantee you it's probably the cleanest one in my tri-state area. :)
My friend had a 5 speed manual Plymouth Breeze
Now my car to buy!
Cool,I drove a Dodge Stratus,1998model,the Dodgeversion 🥰 Rental car. I could squeal the fronttires, easily.
Auto metal means it detects if the tape os a "metal" tape....a higher quality tape basically. Im only 28 and I even know that.
Nice to see a Plymouth Breeze
The vent dial was that big because the dial physically opened and closed the vent and not a motor
The car that screams SUB-PRIME “$999 DOWN $150 PER WEEK”
I always liked the look of these.
One of my all-time favorite cars was a '67 Plymouth Fury II that I bought for $125 in 1976! The car was sorta plain, but a BETTER HAULER of people or parcels NEVER EXISTED!
I loved this and the Sebring if same year. No shame.
These were not bad cars. The packaging efficiency is very good, it's honest and affordable transportation.
These cars end up on Judge Judy
Indiana or Kentucky ?? You decide. Where is it from ??
Shockingly and confounding is the fact that it's not rusted through on the rocker panels OR the front of the hood !! So many of the cloud cars died for that reason.
America's favorite rental car
I think it is quite good looking.
My mom had a 98 Dodge stratus that im pretty sure is the same as this car
Very interesting
Auburn Hills really just fell apart. We had some good MOPAR, back in the day. Stupid Fiat. UAW proud.