Chrysler Fifth Avenue

The Chrysler Fifth Avenue was a trim level/option package or model name used by Chrysler for its larger sedans from 1979 to 1993. The Fifth Avenue name was no longer used after 1993 when Chrysler introduced its new LH-platform New Yorker and similar LHS.

The nameplate "Fifth Avenue" references the prominent, upscale street in New York City, where the Chrysler Building is two blocks to the east.

In 1980, realizing that they needed to offer a comparable luxury sedan to the Cadillac Fleetwood and Lincoln Town Car, Chrysler offered the Fifth Avenue trim package as an upscale option on the R‑body New Yorker.

From 1982, further downsizing put the New Yorker on the M-body platform, but retaining a Fifth Avenue option package. In 1983, to distinguish the M-body New Yorker from the new AE-body New Yorker, the Fifth Avenue name was added to the M-body, so it became the one-year-only Chrysler 'New Yorker Fifth Avenue'.

From 1984, the M-body Chrysler was no longer a 'New Yorker', but just the 'Fifth Avenue', a name it kept through 1989. In 1988, the AE New Yorker morphed into the AC body New Yorker – though during that year, Chrysler offered both New Yorker models (AE New Yorker Turbo and AC New Yorker), and the M-body Fifth Avenue.

After the discontinuance of the M-body in mid-1989, Chrysler offered an even smaller Fifth Avenue on the AC platform in 1990, which ran through 1993.

In 1994, Chryser introduced a new LH-body New Yorker along with the Chrysler LHS, in 1996, discontinuing the New Yorker after 1997. The LHS was discontinued after 2001 and was not replaced.