Talk:Chrysler K platform

EEK
The EEK term is indeed used by numerous owners. I can point to the EEK mailing list, allpar forums, and even auto shows as places where people self-refer to EEKs. I don't mind if the eekcars.com references is deleted - in fact I'm all for it -- but I think the term should remain somewhere. Davert (talk) 15:18, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The usage of this made-up term by "numerous owners" notwithstanding, it has yet to show up in any sources compliant with WP:RS. I think it needs to go. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 18:05, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Since you already took it out twice without discussion ... anyway, does http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=eek&Find=find&string=exact work? It's been there for a while. I also see http://home.earthlink.net/~richhutch/ and http://dodgedynasty.50megs.com/mods/cluster.html and http://forum.dvdtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-308066.html in a quick Google search. Of course those are just owners, not encyclopedias, newspapers, or Chrysler itself. Does jargon have to come from an "official" source? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davert (talk • contribs) 13:52, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I have indeed removed it without discussion, following the "cite it or drop it" principle. None of these sites meets WP:RS or WP:V. Personal web pages are not reliable sources, and a blanket compendium of acronyms to which anyone can suggest (i.e., add) "definitions" is certainly not a reliable source. Allpar is certainly a large Chrysler-enthusiast website, but there is zero fact-checking; the site owner will gladly put up whatever anyone cares to write, and therefore the whole site's veracity is weak. The term "EEK" is not jargon. It was originally made up as the name of an electronic mailing list for owners of K- and K-derivative vehicles. So, the best we have here is that some people on the internet think the name of a mailing list is a keen collective term for their cars, and I'm afraid that simply is not encyclopædic. This is not the forum for promulgating an internet shorthand term for a group of vehicles. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 15:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Even when the original statement was that some DO use it as shorthand for a group of vehicles? Which was after all the point? Do we ignore all Internet sayings? Davert (talk) 17:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Yep...because the statement "some (owners) use it as shorthand" is original research. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 19:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * OK... I understand your objections. I don't necessarily agree with them but I'll leave it. Davert (talk) 18:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Dick Gephardt
When he was running for president in 1988, Dick Gephardt used the (completely spurious) example of a Chrysler K car costing around $50,000 in South Korea, as an example of how foreign markets were closed to US products. (While there was some truth to this, the K was already very long in the tooth, was not exported to South Korea, and the price would have been for a highly specialized import of a car that would have required significant modification). I'll find a source for this, but it probably ought to be mentioned. ProhibitOnions 21:18, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Competitors are beyond the scope of this article
This means you, Artie. This article is a list of platforms, not a venue for your op-ed pieces on the K-cars. --93JC 14:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Name
Can it be added why it was called "K" (what was the significance of this letter)? Badagnani (talk) 22:23, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Worked on building k car in Newark Delaware
Looking for guys worked on job when plant was built. Ron Bemis (talk) 20:19, 6 April 2023 (UTC)