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One of the United States best selling, cult following, car club enthused vehicles...is coming to a production ending!From Mike Ramsey with the bloomberg.com online web-base, "The need for that product has passed," said John Wolknowicz, a product analyst at consulting firm IHS Global Insight Inc., in Lexington, Massachusetts. "It (the PT Cruiser) created a buzz back in 2000, but it's outlived its usefulness."
This has been about a month ago and my question is why? The PT is a vehicle which applied to the average person. The PT was priced so that most to everyone could afford to buy one and it was sized and proportionally made well to fit the average American family. Vehicle owners of the PT can't help that the PT brought back many older Americans memories of the 1930's-1940's gangster sedans we all loved so much (I wasn't around then, but I like those vehicles too).
I mean just look at this thing and what people are doing to the PT!
Awesome!
Awesome!So what does Chrysler decide to do?
Per Mike Ramsey bloomberg.com "Chrysler has said it is trying to sell its Dodge Viper sports-car brand, and it will discontinue production of its Jeep Commander SUV, according to people familiar with the company’s plans."
What?
Chrysler is trying to keep the "Dodge Viper sports-car brand" for what?So that Americans can't afford to drive a car anymore?
With an estimated based price of $83,145 per rsportscar.com, how can an average blue-collar and white collar American worker afford such a vehicle!
I think Chrysler kept the Viper in production because we all know that car companies overcharge for vehicles and the Viper surely has a 100% profit margin. That and the Chrysler execs. just like to drive the Viper on the test track.
It seems the world has become obsessed with the next vehicle that goes faster than the last vehicle. I thought we were in a oil/gas crisis?
I think Chrysler kept the Viper in production because we all know that car companies overcharge for vehicles and the Viper surely has a 100% profit margin. That and the Chrysler execs. just like to drive the Viper on the test track.It seems the world has become obsessed with the next vehicle that goes faster than the last vehicle. I thought we were in a oil/gas crisis?
Get this, the 2008 Dodge Viper, currently being sold, boast a 6.4L V10 estimate HP of 600, for a production car with 2 doors?
With that kind of power, they should fit the Viper with a trailer hitch and consider it a truck with a towing capacity of 10k lbs.
I think until Chrysler learns how to build one of these...
...I will stick with my PT.
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Comments by:
Mike Ramsey (1/14/2009) Chrysler to End PT Cruiser, Seek Buyer for Equipment, Bloomberg.com online web-base, retrieved 2/18/09, from bloomberg.com, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCLJhN4i0sRk&refer=home
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No author specified, (no date specified) 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 Roadster Specifications, Rsports.com online web-base, retrieved 2/10/09 retrieve from rsportscar.com, http://www.rsportscars.com/dodge/2008-dodge-viper-srt10-roadster/
Other photos and references were obtain by my own previous usage.
