Press Release

Chrysler Announces 2 Million Plus in Year-to-Date Sales

10/24/96

Chrysler U.S. Sales Top 2 Million For Year to Date; Earliest Point
Ever In A Calendar Year

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Oct. 22 -- Chrysler Corporation's
U.S.  sales have topped 2 million vehicles for the year to
date, the earliest point in a calendar year that milestone has been
reached.

U.S. sales of new Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge, Jeep(R) and Eagle
vehicles from January 1, 1996, through October 21, 1996, totaled
2,003,949. That performance makes 1996 the fourth consecutive calendar
year in which Chrysler's U.S. sales have exceeded 2 million.

Until now, the earliest point for year-to-date sales to top 2 million
was November 29, in both 1988 and 1994.  Chrysler's full calendar-year
record was set in 1988 with U.S. sales of 2,208,057.

Through the end of September, U.S. sales in 1996 have been 14 percent
ahead of the 1995 rate. Chrysler's 1995 U.S. sales total was
2,164,343.