Monaco

This nameplate began as Dodge’s full-size, upscale entry for the 1965 model year, positioned above the mainstream Dodge lineup and aimed at buyers who wanted a more luxurious, premium-feeling car without leaving the brand. In its first era, it evolved through several body styles and generations as a large rear-wheel-drive car, and it became especially familiar in hardtop, sedan, and wagon forms. For 1977 and 1978, the Monaco badge was applied to a smaller intermediate Dodge line before that version was discontinued. After a hiatus, the name returned for 1990 as a completely different front-wheel-drive sedan based on the Eagle Premier platform. That later Monaco was a short-lived, Canadian-built model sold through 1992, with only minor trim changes across its brief run. Because the nameplate was revived after a production gap, it has two distinct production periods rather than one continuous lineage.