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The Eagle Premier was a development of the Renault and AMC partnership, inherited when Chrysler Corporation bought out American Motors in 1987, and sold from the 1988 to 1992 model years. It was a mid-size four-door sedan styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro. Although it uses the drivetrain from the Renault 25 (at least for V6 models) and suspension components from the Renault 21, the body and floorpan structure are unique. It was also sold as the Dodge Monaco from 1990 to 1992.

Originally, it was meant to be called the Renault Premier, before Chrysler acquired AMC in 1987, and a few early 1988 models left the factory with that badging. Early Premiers also carried a Design Giugiaro badge, removed after the car's mid-term freshening. The Premier's interior was designed by AMC's in-house staff under the direction of Dick Teague.

The Premier was available in LX (equipped with a 2.5 L I4 AMC engine, offered until the end of the 1989 model year) and ES trims (V6, 3.0 L PRV engine). Very few LX models seem to have been built, mostly for fleet use.

A new, highly advanced factory was built to manufacture the Premier at Bramalea, Ontario, near AMC's existing plant at Brampton. The state of the art plant was one of AMC's features that interested Chrysler.

The Dodge Monaco resulted from the fact that the Premier was considered a better car than Chrysler's own contemporary large-car entry, the Dodge Dynasty, and a contractual obligation to use 260,000 of the V6 engines from Renault in five years. The Premier's European roots meant that it was more sophisticated than what Chrysler was offering in its range, most of which were made up of K-car derivatives. The Chrysler LH-cars — regarded as the cars that saved Chrysler for the 1990s — were based on a platform (chassis and suspension design) directly derived from the Premier.

In all, 139,051 Premiers and Monacos were built at Bramalea. Supposedly, Chrysler paid a penalty for every engine not purchased (120,949) from Renault.

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