Description

When Chrysler's PT Cruiser burst on the scene for 2000, Daimler-Chrysler discovered its hot potential painfully cooled by the fact that it could not build Cruisers quickly enough to meet demand. They sold 92,000 of the vehicle no one could define in that first year and watched sales climb to 145,000 the next year, aching in the knowledge they could have sold more except the production lines were not set up for the blazing appeal of this car. Step up a notch to the Touring model and you can have a 180-horsepower, light-pressure version of the 2.4-liter four-cylinder and 180 horsepower -- mated to a four-speed automatic. You'll start bargaining at $22,900 here.