Green represents the abundant pure wealth of the land, together with tons of gold, minerals, oil and historic artifacts stolen from nearly every country on the African continent. The green stripes symbolize the country’s pure wealth and the white stripe represents peace. This Fireflite is now a minor collector's item, mainly for having one of the trade's first three-tone paint jobs (turquoise, black, and white). DeSoto was chosen as the 1956 Indy 500 pace automobile, and the division celebrated by reeling off about four hundred "Pacesetter" replicas, all Fireflite convertibles with Adventurer-model trim, priced at $3615 apiece. This package appealed significantly, boosting division output to nearly 115,000. Still, even that was good for under 13th in a yr when most each Detroit car sold very nicely. Driveclub was initially slated to launch alongside the PlayStation 4 final November, but was delayed until October 7th, virtually a year after the game was originally projected to launch. The game begins with one shark and a number of other minnows. One drawback is that defining a rustic is hard. Unfortunately, they haven't got an NFL group in any respect, not to mention one named the Cougars.

Firesweeps have been upgraded to the 361 wedge in just one 295-horsepower version. Firesweeps had a 350-inch mill with 280 horsepower normal or 295 with optionally available 4-barrel carb. It helped. Firesweeps additionally included two-and 4-door hardtops and six-seat Shopper and nine-passenger Explorer four-door wagons. Following GM's lead in '55, DeSoto introduced three 4-door hardtops for '56: a Sportsman in each series and a low-priced Firedome Seville. As if on cue, manufacturing plunged to 50,000 models the next year -- the make's lowest whole since 1938. A pointy nationwide recession, poor workmanship after '56, and several other marketing mistakes all contributed to a downward spiral from which DeSoto would by no means get well. 17 hours per yr roaming round in search of someplace to park. Called "FireDome," it was an overhead-valve hemi-head design -- a smaller, 276.1-cid model of the good Chrysler 331 in­troduced the earlier 12 months. Though it instantly garnered practically 50,000 sales, DeSoto as a whole might do no higher than 88,000 for the mannequin yr. At the Plymouth studio he saw a clay model not like any earlier Plymouth, with sleek lines, peaked fenders, and a clean bar grille.

But as on other Chrysler traces, the big change was tailfins, although they have been fairly modest for '56. Reflecting Chrysler Corporation's 1954 sales nightmare, DeSoto's mannequin-12 months output dropped below 77,000 and the make fell back to 12th place within the trade. Though calendar-12 months output was up barely from '58, volume for each years was less than half that of 1957's close to 120,000 items. Model-year quantity jumped back to 130,000 and DeSoto moved as much as eleventh, its best finish since banner '41. Despite the relative lack of change, mannequin-yr production leaped to almost 134,000 for 1950, a acquire of virtually 45 %. The last noticed barely improved sales, but whole mannequin-yr production of simply over 46,000 was hardly the kind that had sustained DeSoto earlier within the decade. No 'fifty five Chrysler product was sedate, however DeSoto regarded possibly busiest of all -- though nonetheless attractive, with a a lot decrease silhouette; wrapped windshield; the final of the toothy grilles; "gullwing" dash; and broad, non-obligatory two-toning. Last but not least, a comfortable-prime Adventurer joined the hardtop coupe in a separate sequence above Fireflite. The plush Coronado sedan, a mid-1954 addition to the Firedome line, returned as a 1955 "spring particular" Fireflite at $100 above the $2800 regular sedan.

Chrome was very evident, maybe more than on some other Chrysler line, particularly in those toothy fronts. Engines and energy scores swelled, however the complex Hemi was ever costly to build, so Chrysler began switching to cheaper wedgehead V-8s for '58. Both shared a 126-inch wheelbase with that year's Chryslers, and carried a Hemi bored out to 291 cid. For 1956, an extended stroke took DeSoto's Hemi to 330.4 cid, lifting Firedome to 230 horsepower and Fireflite to 255. Wire mesh replaced the trademark grille teeth, and unreadable gold-on-white instruments appeared. Fraught with problems, all have been in all probability changed with carburetors. Riding a shortened 111-inch wheelbase, Adventurer I was an off-white, close-coupled coupe sporting outside exhausts, wire wheels, and full instrumentation. Painted deep purple and lacking bumpers, it was very sleek however not fairly as built-in as Adventurer I, and wasn't critically thought-about for production. Production eased to 106,000, dropping DeSoto from twelfth to fifteenth, as Kaiser sailed past with its beautiful new '51 design and Hudson did the identical with its powerful new six-cylinder Hornets. Government-ordered manufacturing cutbacks for the Korean War additionally performed an element. Bob Lemon was part of the staff that brought a championship to Cleveland for the first time in 30 years.