Rest in peace PT Cruiser...see you in another lifetime...

 

The PT cruiser has gone longer without a style change than any other car. It holds the record so to call the styling stale is a damn understatement

 

I agree. I got one as a rental car back in 2005 on a trip to Monterey. What a terrible, terrible car. Visibility is bad, the car is very uncomfortable, and it's ugly. The performance was also not good. What a roach of a car.

 

i seen pt with some 20s few months back,,,priceless

 

I agree that the PT Cruiser, though neat-looking from a retro standpoint, was, like other Chrysler products, not impressively-built, and used some cheap materials. FIAT, of course, once meant "Fix it Again, Tony".......and we'll see if some 20-25 years since Fiat last sold cars in the American market has made any difference, quality-wise. The surface fit/finish on the 500s I looked at January at the D.C. Auto show (3 were on display, including an all-electric model) looked OK, but I got only limited views of the interior, as they were not out on the floor. And good fit/finish on the skin, of course, does not necessarily mean reliability under the skin, as Jaguar and Land Rover have proven.

 

Whatever Fiat-designed car replaces the PT Cruiser, it better be a lot bigger than the Fiat 500 I saw parked in our neighborhood a couple weeks ago. Heck, it wasn't much bigger than a Smart Car with a back seat.

 

I only see one of these maybe once a week (possibly less) so I really didn't know it was produced for more than a couple years.

 

Well, that, of course, will be up to the Fiat marketers.....they dictate the trends at Chrysler now. If they do decide what you suggest and go with a bigger product than the 500, Fiat has at least one or two European mid-sized/minivan platforms, about the PT Cruiser's size, that could possibly be reworked, with a different body, into a PT Cruiser replacement.

But, judging from the Fiat 500s I saw at the D.C. Auto Show this year and what the Chrysler/Dodge people told me there (Fiat, unfortunately, didn't send any reps to the D.C. show....just 3 cars), it looks like the company is committed to introducing the 500 here by the end of the year.

 

Merged with old news

 

The Lexus SC430 has been out just as long and even more unchanged than the PT. The PT did get a mid-life facelift (new interior, headlights, grill, trim lines, ect.).

It has certainly been considered a POS since around '05 but when it came out in 2001 it was actually highly acclaimed not only by buyers but the auto press as well. For a Chrysler, the quality at the time was considered very good. It was praised for it's leading versatility and space in a relatively small package. And its MSRP was considered a steal. First year buyers were paying thousands above retail to acquire one.

There's tons of them cluttering the US. For it's first 2-3 years, these sold like hotcakes.

 

Wow.. whatever is Alamo rent-a-car going to do?

 

I remember a friend of mine telling me that her Dad was super excited to get his and me thinking what hunk of crap it was. They all thought it was so cool. I see those things on the road where people fix em up and put wood trim or those solid hubcaps on em or do stupid retro kits to em, what a complete waste of energy and space.

I look at that car and the truly half hearted, weak a%% attempt that Chrysler took to simply pull anything out of their a%% to make money with no concern for quality and just shake my head. Shameless...

 

Is this post serious?

If it is....LOL....justify it however you want the car is a complete and total pos.

Chrysler/Dodge should have died over a year ago. They are the only company out of the Big 3 that has made ZERO progress since their government bailout. A ridiculously bad company that deserves to die a swift death.

 

I had a friend who had one and it wasnt anything impressive to me. The only thing interesting about the car WAS the styling ( and that was years ago)

 

good riddance.