To understand the PT Cruiser's place in automotive history, it's best to start with a quote from Douglas Adams'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "Most of it seemed to make some kind of sense at the ...

Cole Attisha Using Midjourney 7.0 & Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Everyone with a beating heart knows what the Chrysler PT Cruiser is. Some people remember the PT Cruiser as an ugly, droopy quasi-crossover ...

Referring to the Chrysler PT Cruiser as a flop would be sacrilege. More of a victim of complacency than mediocre engineering, Chrysler launched the PT Cruiser in 2000 as a Dodge Neon with a ...

Jalopnik readers of a certain age will remember that around the turn of the 21st century, U.S. car buyers were positively crazed for vehicles with retro styling. Consider the Plymouth Prowler, ...

While originally conceived by the Chrysler Group as a Plymouth model, the PT Cruiser ended up being launched onto the market as a Chrysler branded vehicle in 2000, following the Detroit carmaker’s ...

If car enthusiasts had to come up with a Mount Rushmore of classically bad cars, the Chrysler PT Cruiser's retro grille would be a shoe in for a featured. Next to the Pontiac Aztek, the PT Cruiser ...

After several false starts, designer Bryan Nesbitt came up with a sketch that had the right mix of retro and contemporary. (Read more about the PT's styling development inthis Allpar interview.) ...