Can someone explain the Eagle car brand that lasted through 1997?

Question

I was looking at some old car magazines and I saw a brand called Eagle it consisted of like four cars and they all looked like re badged models from other car brands. Summit, Talon, Vision, Premier...was this just a umbrella name for these re badged vehicles kind of like Geo was 1989-1997?

Answer 1

Eagle was the last vestige of the once-proud America Motors Corp. After a failed partnership with Renault, AMC was bought out by Chrysler Corp., which wanted the still-valuable Jeep brand. AMC was left without any vehicles to sell, so Chrysler re-badged an assortment of vehicles.

The Vision wassupposed to have a somewhat sportier character than its siblings, the "cab-forward" Chrysler Concorde/300M and Dodge Intrepid, The Premier started life as a Renault design, while the Summit and Talon originated at Mitsubishi.

Pundits at the time noted that the last time a car manufacturer tried to launch a brand starting with"E" and containing five letters (Edsel) it hadn't ended well.

Neither did this experiment.

Answer 2

The Mitsubishi Eclipse and Eagle Talon are the same.

Chrysler bought Mitsubishi years ago.

The popular Plymouth/Chrysler/Dodge Minivan in the early 90's was actually a Mitsubishi.

Eagle was also owns by Chrysler and they were all copies of Mitsubishi's.

Answer 3

Some were rebadged Mitsubishi's and others were Chrysler products.