Not quite accurate. Canada got Caravelles before the Americans got the Gran Fury. The product planners in Canada still had enough pull that they talked Highland Park into doing a Plymouth grille/badges/etc for the "M" body wagon for the Cdn Plymouth dealers.
It wasn't until the American Plymouth dealers realized there was a less expensive "M" body than the LeBaron that they whined to Highland Park about getting their own version of it to sell there. So the Canadians took the hit for the initial cost of the tooling for the "Plymouth" grille, and since the corp already had a shitload of "GranFury" nameplates left over, that was the perfect use for them. None of the Americans would have had a clue what a Caravelle was. At best they would have associated the name with that total POS that Renault or Simca tried to sell in North America in the late '50s/early /60s.
