Re: Bring back the PT Cruiser!

I think the PT should have been built with better parts. I have a 2002 that had a front wheel bearing fail at 15 K .My wife has an 03 with one otter tie rod failure ,and at 60 K the rear trailing arm bushings are shot. My son has an 1989 Aries with 200 K that I bought new and it has two sets of shoes & pads ,and had the timing belt changed twice so far. I owned allot of K cars in the 80's and only thing you had to do is not let them over heat They should have used better materials on the Cruisers .One good thing is used parts will be easy to find .There was only one change to front fenders & head lights. I belong to a PT CROUSER club in north east Ohio and allot of members also own Chevy H H R s. I call them the big brother to the PT s.

Jerry

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Jerry - OHIO
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Anything in the way of a major re-design would make it no

Look at the change in design in the Corvette. And it's still a Corvette.

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Pete E. Kruzer

"Pete E. Kruzer" wrote in news:5747c051-0fcd-4764-8dd1- snipped-for-privacy@w9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:

I had read in some article a couple years ago about a possible evolution of the PT. Since you couldn't modernize it and it remain a retro design, they considered a possible blending of key 30's Chrysler Aero model design elements into it. Also going up a size using the Sebring platform and offering a V6. That would have possibly been a very cool car.

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CopperTop

Thank you, thank you very much.

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Pete E. Kruzer

But it still LOOKS like a Corvette. The lines are a clear heritage all the way back to the first straight-six vettes, Mako Sharks and Stingrays too. What are they going to do to change the PT significantly? Pick yet another 40's Chrysler and refresh the style? The HHR is a decent modernization of an old GMC panel truck, but there are only so many old shapes to choose from before you run out. An evolutionary re-style of the PT would take it too far from its roots, IMO.

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Steve

Still looks like a Corvette? i think I'll disagree on this point.

Check 'em out through the years.

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Pete E. Kruzer

No need for me to go look, I can visualize every major Corvette body style just fine. They all have a certain commonality, an evolution of the theme. The "Stingray" theme exaggerated some elements of the style, the "Mako Shark" others, the C4, C5, and C6 each evolved the theme their own way (well, the C6 is really more like a C5.5 because its so similar to the C5). But they're all instantly recognizable as members of the same family. You can do that with a new design as you evolve it, but the PT's whole appeal is that it cloned a particular vintage model in miniature. You can't really evolve that. Well you could, and some might like it. But I would rather pick another retro theme altogether than try to evolve the PT in a way that the original design couldn't/didn't go. Someone said that the "next" PT might have been slightly larger and a clone of an Airflow model. That would have been absolutely wondeful IMO, but it wouldn't have been an evolution of the current PT.

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Steve

The other thing is that the Corvette is intended to be a modern style (and has been, since the Sting Ray). You can make some pretty radical changes, and so long as you leave some pretty general styling cues intact, it's still "the same car". Something deliberately retro becomes either boring or self-parody pretty quickly (we'll leave the question of whether the Mako Shark Corvette was self-parody alone...).

I keep wondering what's going to happen when it's time for a major facelift on the Mustang.

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Joe Pfeiffer

Well... They've borrowed from every previous mustang except the MustangII, so I guess it'll come back next :-D

(ducking as all the Ford guys throw 9" ring gears in my direction....)

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Steve

I'm not even a Ford guy, and I'm tossing one at you!

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Joe Pfeiffer

I remember back in the mid 90s I ran across an online Mustang mailing list and the home page had words to this effect:

To register for the Classic Mustangs list (1965-1972) click here.

For the Modern Mustangs list (1979 and later) click here.

Don't even ask about the Mustang II because nobody cares.

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Steve

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