IN THE SPIRIT OF FULL DISCLOSURE,
I must admit that I owned two Plymouth Horizons, and I would own one again in a New York minute. Of all the cars I bought new, the Horizon was the only one about which our friendly, family-owned Merrimack Motors Chrysler-Plymouth dealer said, “These are fun-to-drive cars,” and he was right. They are fun to drive.
Introduced on December 5, 1977, after a development timeline that was shortened from 48 months to 30, the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon were America’s first foray into transverse-mounted, front-wheel-drive, sub-compact sedans. They bore a resemblance to the VW Rabbit and, to save development costs, were powered by a VW-sourced 1.7-liter OHC four-cylinder engine with some modifications by our friends at Mopar, including the addition of the lean-burn…
