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Huge Sale!
Time is running out on the $100 below supplier price on Everything for Everyone Sale! Right now you can buy any new car in stock for $100 below supplier price and you get all the incentives! Ends at the close of business 6-30-2010.
kbb.com's Hot Car Report
The Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot and Dodge Caliber took three of the top four spots in kbb.com’s “Hot Car Report” last week. The 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee took the fifth spot. The kbb.com list measures growth in consumer inquiries for vehicle models receiving at least 800 page views in a week.
Driven by hefty incentives, hits for the Compass were up 35.4% giving it the No. 1 spot in the survey. With growth of 35.2 percent, the BMW 5-Series was runner-up. The Patriot and Caliber came in third and fourth with 32.8% and 24.4% increases, respectively. Inquiries about the current Jeep Grand Cherokee rose 22.4 percent. The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee scored well among kbb.com’s tally for intro and redesigned models with a 27.6% increase in page visits, second only to the new BMW 5-Series.
“When Lennon and McCartney wrote the lyric ‘Money can’t buy me love,’ they proved that they were musicians and not car salesmen,” wrote kbb.com editors. “Three of the top four vehicles in our data this week have generated little enthusiastic interest since introduction in 2007, but their status in the Hot Car Report proves that there is no substitute for cold hard cash. Chrysler’s three small crossovers, the Jeep Compass, Patriot, and Dodge Caliber, as well as the soon-to-be replaced Jeep Grand Cherokee, all have seen up to $5,000 placed on their hoods and shoppers at kbb.com are responding.”
Thanks to ZiaSon for the tip!
Driven by hefty incentives, hits for the Compass were up 35.4% giving it the No. 1 spot in the survey. With growth of 35.2 percent, the BMW 5-Series was runner-up. The Patriot and Caliber came in third and fourth with 32.8% and 24.4% increases, respectively. Inquiries about the current Jeep Grand Cherokee rose 22.4 percent. The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee scored well among kbb.com’s tally for intro and redesigned models with a 27.6% increase in page visits, second only to the new BMW 5-Series.
“When Lennon and McCartney wrote the lyric ‘Money can’t buy me love,’ they proved that they were musicians and not car salesmen,” wrote kbb.com editors. “Three of the top four vehicles in our data this week have generated little enthusiastic interest since introduction in 2007, but their status in the Hot Car Report proves that there is no substitute for cold hard cash. Chrysler’s three small crossovers, the Jeep Compass, Patriot, and Dodge Caliber, as well as the soon-to-be replaced Jeep Grand Cherokee, all have seen up to $5,000 placed on their hoods and shoppers at kbb.com are responding.”
Thanks to ZiaSon for the tip!
The final PT Cruiser
The final PT Cruiser will be made on July 9, 2010, according to the Freep’s Mark Phelan, who pointed out that the PT embodied Chrysler’s repeated brilliance in creating popular new vehicles, and their lack of success in maintaining their popularity.
The first PT Cruiser was sold in 2000 amidst an almost frenzy-like burst of enthusiasm; buyers loved it for its ease of parking, use of space, ride and handling, and personality, though critics blasted its power (acceleration was nearly identical to the critically acclaimed Mini, which showed up at around the same time). New Beetle owners swarmed to dealerships to trade in their bugs for PTs.
The end comes around 1.3 million cars and one decade after the beginning. PT sales were far higher than expectations from the start, and demand stayed high until the 2006 redesign, which included cheapened, hardened seats, a cheaper air dam, more sound insulation, and a more generic interior.
The PT Cruiser was originally meant to be a Plymouth, according to insiders, hence the traditional “Plymouth Truck” moniker (as in PT38). It followed the styling of the Plymouth Prowler, and was to have been followed by a similarly styled minivan and mid-sized car, converting Plymouth into a more unique, desirable brand. Instead, DaimlerChrysler decided, in essence, to drop the Plymouth name, move Chrysler into Plymouth’s niche, and retroactively make the PT Cruiser into a Chrysler model.
Executives frequently denigrated the PT in private, playing it as a fad, unworthy of the attention. While highly profitable, it did not conform to the Daimler strategy of using Mitsubishi designs for smaller vehicles and Mercedes designs for larger ones, and had numerous rounds of de-contenting even in the first generation (the cargo net disappeared even from the GT in 2002.)
Even as Chrysler cheapened the PT, it managed to be one of the brand’s biggest sellers – and highest quality cars.
The PT Cruiser has been built alongside the Dodge Journey in the Toluca, Mexico factory which once only made Neons. It is being replaced in the factory by the Fiat 500, which will be made by Chrysler for sale in North and South America, branded as a Fiat.
With the loss of the PT Cruiser comes the end of the final car ever to be designed as a Plymouth – even if it was never sold as one.
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