TOP HEARSE POWER
Nov 05, 2019
4 minutes
WORDS: PHIL WHITE
automotive history teaches us one thing, it is this: the great British public loves an outsider, even if we tend to sneer at it when it arrives. Many iconic British cars pushed boundaries a long way at their launch, and when Chrysler’s PT Cruiser wandered across the Atlantic in 2000 boasting American Gothic looks that only a mother could love, we reacted with a combination of horror, derision – and desire. Of the 1.35 million PT Cruisers sold during its decade-long career, over 300,000 were bought outside the USA and its largest foreign market was the UK. Despite being, as one British review put it, ‘something of an artful sham,’
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