Trexus

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

I8ABMR

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

link13

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.

LIMS407

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

mmarshall

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.

caddyowner

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.

Faymester

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.

mmarshall

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.

LexFather

Merged with old news

-J-P-L-

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.

rld14

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

mole

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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...

CDNROCKIES

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.

I8ABMR

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)

Jetfire

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good riddance.