It wasn’t their worst model. ChryCo never updated it.

REJOYCE!!

WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Way overdue Chrysler. Way overdue.

God, I hate that car.

The HHR is so much better. Better quality, better driving, infinitiely more reliable and more desirable to Americans who will always hate Chrysler for being part of Mercedes.

Ever notice that the only people who drive PT Cruisers are REALLY ugly?

Whatever you might think of it, Chrysler could sure use another success story of the same magnitude right about yesterday.

omg it’s like a dream come true. now the rest of chrysler needs to go!

YAY! And I like how everyone liked the PT Cruiser for about the first yeara it was out, then everyone was annoyed with it. And I see more ugly, old people driving ****ty HHR’s than PT Cruisers…

I don’t think it’s official that the Durango and Aspen are going away.

Call me crazy, but the only story I’ve seen regarding their future is that the Newark, DE plant is closing later this year, as of a 10/23 LLN article. But is that the only plant that produces the Durango and Aspen?

It seems kind of silly to me that Chrysler would end production of those two vehicles, since they were JUST introduced with Hybrid models a few months ago. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Can someone confirm?

Chrysler really squandered away a good opportunity with this one. PT Cruiser was a good seller for years… had they invested some time, money and effort into it, perhaps it could have been an on-going revenue generator.

even though the car gets bashed it was a nice car. enough to be 1 of 2 chrysler biggest hits in the last 8 years next to the 300 and enough for GM to make a better version of it. talk about red headed step child syndrome. did alot but never got credit. what a shame.

Go Stick it beemerdude,

When I turned 16 that was my first car, and I don’t consider myself ugly. It was at the time the only small wagon you could buy at a decent price, I bought one new for a heavy discount in 2002 but only kept it for six months. It was built to a high standard, very nice interior with soft to touch pieces everywhere. But the redesign in 05/06 actually took many of those quality parts and replaced them with cheaper, more rental car plastics. Too bad, because the original was a good, quality, small car. I traded it in for a 03 Protege5 which I still miss to this day.

The Crossfre was one car I still want a used version of. That was one of the classiest looking cars ever built and will look stunning years from now.

Great novelty car eleven years ago. Obsolete bucket of bolts now. Tragic how Chrysler let that nameplate rot — they could have built a whole franchise there.

Maybe it’ll live on in third-world markets, like when Fiat sold their used 128 dies to Lada and faux fiats continued to roam the Soviet Union for years to come.

Chrysler can’t build a decent car even if you paid them, thats why most people stopped paying them.

@TomF, the Crossfire is nothing more than a turn of the century S-class w/ a Chry parts bin grill and UGLY, in words of J.Clarkson “dog bending over to #2″ rear hatch.

I remember when the PT first came out, it was bigger than jesus (and better than HHR…which has rental car written all over it!), too bad that Chry just let it die. $15k-$20k cars cannot last on the market 7 years without a major overhaul, the mild face lift just wasn’t enough.

TomF,

Zastava is STILL building a car based on the 127/128. And, as I recall, Lada is still building the Riva, which was based on the 124.

This is what happen when a car manufacturer can’t handle success i remeber this car being sold out on dealer lots for weeks at a time and also a great success the 300 is starting to age as well ,I blame greedy management who should have took those profits and improved on the vehicle, it looks like the 300 will be going the same way If chrysler dont redsign soon.

I like the PT Cruiser, but like it’s been said, Chrysler never updated it. If they HAD, then it would have still sold well. Too bad they didn’t spend more time on the PT and less on the Sebring/Avenger mess.

Sad. The car never came anywhere close to its potential.

TomF, it was FIAT 124 living forever as some version of Lada. 126/128 was version of Yugo.

Just noticed remark by inline6. How many lunatics(like me) out there remember what car morphed into what?

Someday, someone will write an entire book on how to completely mismanage runaway success in less than 10 years, and it will feature the PT Cruiser. How incredibly sad to see what ultimately happened to this one-time runaway hit.

Not a bad vehicle. Kind of ugly. Almost as ugly as the HHR, & the HHR is almost as ugly as the Aztec.

My time with the PT Cruiser is the reason I think Chrysler sells crap and will go out of business VERY soon. I rented one last year and I swore that I would never ride, drive, or even park next to a Chrysler- for fear of my own car absorbing the Chrysler suckiness by osmosis. It is a glorified Neon, which is truly the worst car Chrysler made post-Iacocca.

Actually Borat,

The 126 was rear-engined. The 127/128 is what the Yugo, or Zastava Koral, is based on.

why the **** would the japanese want this design?

Orangecones – lmao “Chrysler can’t build a decent car even if you paid them, thats why most people stopped paying them.”

124 vs. 128, I stand corrected. You could see them up in Quebec, where Lada imports were the cheapest cars a Montrealer could buy, in the 1980s. They were a riot. Don’t know if Lada is still in the market.

I appreciated the thought that went into it, but in a sense hoped it to not last too long, it was to me one of those, limited design cars that should see no more than 2years of production… so yes, way over due on this decision.

About time…

Ding Dong the Cruisers dead!
The Crusiers dead!
We shot it in the head!