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PT gets a one more year!
http://www.leftlanenews.com/fiat-giv...execution.html
"Fiat has decided to extend the PT CruiserÂ’s stay of execution in order to keep the Toluca plant humming at full speed. |
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They never thought to make any changes to the PT. I'm not familiar, but it knida looks exactly the same now (except for headlights I think) as it did when it first went on sale. Am I wrong? I think a little update here and there might have helped.
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They did make a few updates to the PT in 2006. They changed the headlights slightly, & the grill. The early ones the grill extended below the front bumper. On the later ones they have a sloted (horizontal) valence panel below the grill. They also changed the dash board at the same time. I have driven the newer ones & don't care For the dash. The early ones look more retro. Also they made the PT convertable which imo is hideos looking.( It was dropped)
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Yeah they should have just kept going more and more retro with it. The new interior looks like every other car interior in 2010. Not bad but too modern IMO. A super high milage diesel would have been nice too and made it into a real workhorse, but we're never going to see those over here in the States.
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The problem I expect is it's old Neon based substructure. Chrysler Corp would be well advised to update the car and keep the nostalgic style, but I expect it may be awhile before Mopar has the bucks to redesign much of anything other than what they've already got going.
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Quote:
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And they wonder why they are in trouble.
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They are in trouble because Daimler ran them into the ground! They took what they wanted & left for the "Fatherland".
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Actually ......
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...these are very decent vehicles. My wife is on her 2nd one (the 1st ran over 160k miles w/ only mech trouble being a front wheel bearing and lower control arm bushings). We bought a new '07 and now have over 70k miles on it. Funny thing, it also had to have a front wheel bearing and bushings replaced (under warranty). It is a stick shift (as well as the 1st one) and has always delivered 30+ mpg (gets 32 at steady hiway speed while on a trip for example). IMO, it's one of the most useful smaller type vehicles we've ever owned. With 4 studded snows on it for winter, it will go almost anywhere (and believe me we get some decent snow storms here). It's one of those vehicles I wish they'd never stop making so we could always buy a new one when the old one wears out. . |
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