Uncool as of right now, 45 years after the Cordoba came out, but this car was seriously, seriously uncool new. This was the height of the "personal luxury coupe" era of American automotive history; 2-door cars that were far too large, had engines far too large as well, were clumsy, badly-engineered, slow, terrible on gas, bought by uncool old people, dated, light years away from anything foreign, and really not luxurious at all. Get this: the Cordoba, when it first came out, was marketed as Chrysler's "compact car", despite being 216 inches long, nearly four feet longer than what we consider "compact" today. I don't even think there's a single full-size car today that's anywhere close to 216 inches in length. Furthermore, it was marketed as having "authentic Corinthian leather" as one of its "luxury features", despite there being no such thing as Corinthian leather, and it actuality it was the same cheap garbage offered in every other Chrysler car of the era. If that isn't uncool, then I don't know what is.
But it's 2019 now, not 1975. As dreadful as this car may be, it's too radically different than anything on the road today to not be fascinating. Cars like these were truly the epitome of "they're so bad they're good".
