Original sentence: The Reliant replaced the Plymouth Volare, which was the short-lived successor automobile to the highly regarded Plymouth Valiant.The Reliant was replaced by the Acclaim for 1989
Edited sentence: But differently, they had packaged it into a car whose unremarkable "generic car" 3-box styling, 6 passenger 2-bench seating and generous EPA passenger volume offered a new interpretation of the traditional American family sedean in the tradition of the bland but successful Valiant.Like the Ford Tempo and Chevrolet Cavalier, Chrysler had refined the front-drive technology used in their previous 5-passenger Plymouth Omni into a larger car.The Acclaim would in turn be replaced by  the Chrysler Cirrus, Plymouth Breeze, and Chrysler Sebring series which ended production in 2006.The K-cars would become one of Chrysler's most successful platforms as they were built into various shortened, extended, sport coupe, luxury, convertible and minivan variants of the platform until replaced by "cab-forward" designs in the 1990s.The Reliant replaced the Plymouth Volare, which never quite lived up to the legendary reputation of the previous Plymouth Valiant.The Reliant was replaced by the Acclaim for 1989 which was built on a longer extended-K platform and offered a V6 engine to better compete with larger cars such as the Ford Taurus.They never acquired the  reputation for notorious unreliablity and unusual styling of the GM X-cars such as the Chevrolet Citation which replaced the Chevrolet Nova and derivatives, and were considered a failure by many analysts.While the Escort, Tempo and Cavalier were pitched as alternatives to imports such as Volkswagen, Honda and Toyota, Plymouth advertisements compared the Reliant directly against heavier and longer down-sized domestic intermediates such as the Ford Fairmont and Chevrolet Malibu, which would later also be replaced  by front-drive cars such as the Ford Taurus