DeSoto (automobile)

DeSoto
Product typeAutomobile, trucks
Produced byChrysler Corporation
Introduced1928 by Walter Chrysler
Discontinued1961; 63 years ago (1961)
Related brandsPlymouth
MarketsNorth America
Previous ownersChrysler Corporation

DeSoto (sometimes De Soto) was an American automobile brand that was manufactured and marketed by the DeSoto division of Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to the 1961 model year. More than two million passenger cars and trucks bore the DeSoto brand in North American markets during its existence.[1]

  1. ^ Flory, J. Kelly (2004). American Cars, 1960–1972: Every Model, Year by Year. McFarland. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7864-1273-0.