What make of car do The B-52's hop into in "Love Shack"?

The B-52's hop into a Chrysler in “Love Shack.” The lyric describes a huge Chrysler that seats about twenty people, turning an ordinary car into one of the song’s most memorable comic images.

“Love Shack” was released in 1989 as the lead single from Cosmic Thing, the B-52's fifth studio album. Produced by Don Was, it became the Athens, Georgia band’s biggest hit and a defining dance-rock song of the late 1980s.

The Chrysler line is sometimes misremembered as a Cadillac or simply as a generic oversized American car because the lyric compares it to a whale. The song does not identify a specific Chrysler model; “Chrysler” is the canonical make named in the recording.

The song’s other famous automotive-adjacent lyric is “tin roof, rusted,” which refers to the shack rather than the car. “Love Shack” reached No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and helped re-establish the band after a difficult period.