Sneak Peek

2006 Chrysler PT Cruiser

Chrysler doesn't plan to completely redesign its retro-styled PT Cruiser until model year 2009. So it needs to buy a little more time for the current edition, which gets a modest face-lift this fall, at the start of the 2006 model year.

The '06 PT Cruiser gets a fresher face, with a new grille, headlamps, hood and bumper. The rear-end styling also gets cleaned up a little, with a new bumper and taillamps.

The next-generation PT Cruiser, which isn't due in showrooms until fall 2008, will be extensively redesigned from the ground up.

It reportedly will share underbody components with the next-generation Mitsubishi Lancer.



-Matt

 

I do not think this is the '06 PT Cruiser. Pics of several of these "PTs" have been on the internet for over a year in fact Popular Mechanics showed a pic of one of these about a year ago and claimed it was the '05. On the current Cruiser the character line matchs the hood opening gap. On the one in the pic it just stops at the efge of the door.
OK what is this then if not the refresh Cruiser? I believe as do several others on a number of other forums that it is a test mule (drive train) for the upcoming Jeep Scout/Compass. And the grill show would fit a jeep. The Auto makers often put an old body on a new platfrom for testing.

 

It's definately not a dead-set PT that DC has offered in the picture, but it will be similair. I heard that it will get more of a euro-look to it too...


-Matt-