FLASH: OT - Chrysler.com PT Cruiser

[Jefferis]

My wife and I were walking home from town yesterday night, and a Daimler 

Chrysler employee pulled into the local Dodge dealer lot in the new PT 

Crusier {He was down from Michigan and visiting his dad in my town. His 

dad was going to show the dealer, but he was closed}.  


We were kind of wowed by the car, and my wife said she thought is was 

"cute... like an old  VW bug made into a Woody Van"  While we were there 

[we were behind a row of cars, it was dark out] 4 other drivers pulled 

into the lot to look at the car. The employee was glad to show it off, 

and he said, it took him an hour longer to get here than normal because 

every where he stopped, people wanted to look at the car, open the hood, 

etc. 


I told him he ought to charge the company for his pleasure cruise [he 

doesn't work in sales].  He told me that a dealer ask to  borrow  a car 

for an hour, and took 20 orders on his lot in 1 hour  !.  :-)  


I told him I had been previously to the www.chrysler.com pages and really 

admired the web site [done in Flash].  He said, the web team is really 

top notch, and he said that the  PT Cruiser has gotten more web hits than 

all the other D-C cars combined in 2 years.  I asked, "Not the Mercedes 

cars too...?" And he said... " than All our cars".  


Anyway, the web site and the Flash is really good, but warns that because 

of the load, the dynamic calls for prices and features printouts takes a 

little more time than usual. 


My wife and I were tempted to order one. They are pretty inexpensive for 

what they are [top of the line with leather seats is under $20k]  He said 

it handled well. But my wife reminded me... never buy the first year 

model of any car [its an expensive beta test :-)   We've done that 

before.   The original production estimate for this year was 80,000 

units, but it is now up to 225,000 units with 3 countries making it, and 

they still can't keep up with the orders.   I really liked the retro 

look.  I thought that the car was supposed to be a 4 wheel SUV, but it 

isn't. It is a high ceiling, passenger front wheel drive. The inside 

feels a little bit like the old Checker cabs.  But it isn't quite that 

big. Back seats fold down to make it a nice Woody style cargo area.  The 

dealer said it is a mini-mini van.  The engine looks like a Mercedes 

design. The only drawback to its compactness is that it is not user 

serviceable, except for oil changes. 


Well, this is a long story and a ramble, but it is Sunday afternoon, and 

just thought I would share an off topic stroll through web country and 

real world encounters  :-) 


Jeff




Jefferis Peterson, Pres.

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