Question of the Day: Should Chrysler kill the PT Cruiser, or do a next-gen version?

Posted: Jun 29, 2010
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Chrysler PT Cruiser

The last Chrysler PT Cruiser will be rolling off the assembly line on July 9th. Some of you probably wouldn’t really care to see the PT go but some of you may be really sad to see the historic little car go bye-bye.

“For a while, it was the best-selling Chrysler-brand vehicle,” said Jim Hall, managing director of 2953 Analytics, a Birmingham consultancy.

In fact, as much as we didn’t care for the PT Cruiser, numbers show otherwise. Chrysler will have sold more than 1.3 million PT Cruisers when production ends on July 9. That means that there is a huge following for the love it/hate it design – maybe enough that Chrysler should do a next-generation version.

What are your thoughts?

Let us know in the comments section below.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: Free Press


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  • Dcaswell16v

    I would say a second generation…. It could be quite a franchise….

  • kabluey

    Chrysler would be missing a huge sector that reached so many consumers–I certainly remember back in 2000 when they had a long waiting list for several months to get one. Fiat specializes in small cars;they have all the requisites available–great economical engines, lovely interior designers (after-all they're Italian), and plenty of platforms. The PT Cruiser is cool and it will always be remembered even if it's quite dated and far behind the competition in every test. It's America's Mini, Beetle, and 500.

  • RotaryLover

    KILL IT WITH FIRE!! just kid just kid. Actually they should kill it for the moment and release the next gen 5 yrs after. People will definitely buy it like hot cakes…kinda like what happened with the Camaro.

  • Mogar

    I think with all the Fiat products entering the pipeline, Chrysler should either kill the PT and take on a fiat product the same size with a new name, OR slightly modify (aka give retro-american styling to) an existing fiat vehicle and call it the pt cruiser. Engineering an entirely new vehicle would be pointless.

  • Jnewkirk77

    The PT Cruiser brand is so tarnished by Daimler's utter refusal to do anything with it that a second-gen would be a failure right out of the gate. I can tell you that many people I've talked to who once owned PTs would never buy another.

  • John

    I have never understood why Chrysler ever put this car into production. I once had the misfortune to pilot this vehicle as a rental car. It was the worst driving experience of my life. This car deserves to be discontinued.

  • Kevin

    Kill it, it's an eye sore, drove it as a rental, OMG, it was horrible.