Ah yes, the PT Cruiser. This is a car made by Chrysler that is supposed to be a throwback to the retro styling of 1930’s panel vans. It’s a successful car for Chrysler that has enjoyed high sales numbers. This is really quite unfortunate because it’s atrociously ugly and bland.

Look at it! Maybe it’s just me but the damned thing is ugly. The styling is more Homer Simpson than it is retro in my opinion. The only way to make the car look worse would be to release it as a convertible… Oh wait, they did that… and it was ugly. The interior is even worse.

The interior looks like it was pulled straight from a boat. The comically large spokes on the very big steering wheel. The awkwardly large looking gear shifter. I will admit that I’ve never sat in or driven a PT Cruiser but judging by looking at the interior in pics and spying through peoples car windows, it looks pretty tight and full of cheap plastic. I feel if I did drive one I’d have to commandeer a captains hat. The interior is far from impressive.

On the plus side, the car seems to have received good reviews and even won awards. That doesn’t keep me from hating it. I think I’d rather drive a bad car with piss poor reviews that broke down all the time than be seen driving one of these. If it were offered to me as a rental car, I’d choose walking. If someone gave it to me, I’d leave it on the side of the road with a sign saying ‘Free car!’.

Here is something that’s never made sense to me about this car. I see more PT Cruisers every day than I see any other car on the road and I’m not over exadurating here, they’re everywhere! Why is Chrysler losing money? I blame the Dodge Caliber; I’ll post my thoughts about that car later.

The PT Cruiser was originally released in 1999 (2000 model) and the 2010 model was just released. This car has been around for 10 model years! That’s 10 years too long if ya ask me…

Of course, this is all my asshole biased opinion.

This entry was posted on Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 12:13 pm and is filed under Cars I hate. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.