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Originally Posted by aerohead

I believe they also moved the engine over the front axle as well, as part of the 'Boulevard Ride.'

Interesting, never heard that before.

I did find this.

What could have been: Chrysler originally intended the LH platform as front-, rear-, and all-wheel drive
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/202...ll-wheel-drive

Generally, carmakers design their mass-market automobile platforms as front-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive, or, if they're feeling fancy, with all-wheel drive as an option to either architecture. Generally, carmakers do not design platforms to accommodate all three driveline configurations, but that appears to be just what Chrysler's engineering teams did when developing the "cab-forward" LH platform of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Cutaway of a 1993 Dodge Intrepid. FCA Media image.

"The geometry is exactly the same for the suspension, and the packaging was derived from the Eagle Premiere," Bob Sheaves told Allpar. "All of the suspension and drivetrain mules were Premiers also."

According to John Sanderson, who worked at both AMC and Chrysler during that time, Chrysler was able to save millions just by reusing the Premier's hard points while developing the new car..............

That large sedan then became the LH platform, which came out of the same Brampton assembly plant in Ontario that produced the Premier. Starting in 1993, the LH underpinned a number of Chrysler products, among them the Eagle Vision, the Chrysler Concorde/New Yorker/LHS, the Dodge Intrepid, and later, the Chrysler 300M - all of them marketed by Chrysler as the "cab-forward" cars. As pointed out on the 300M Club's website, contemporary journalists joked that the platform's LH designation stood for "last hope," and indeed, much of the company's non-truck/Jeep/minivan fortunes rested on the LH cars.

The production LH platform, which lasted 11 years and two generations, was slated for a third iteration, but the DaimlerChrysler merger nixed any further development on the LH in favor of the rear-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive LX platform.