“PT-CRUISER” UPDATED - NOW IT LOOKS LOOKING FOR ANOTHER ARCHAIC
There are few external changes after the upgrade. The headlights are now with a dashing bend, the radiator grill is slightly less “assertive,” and a small spoiler has appeared on the roof.
The cabin is much more new: the console has acquired a deliberately rectangular shape, the front passenger will now grab the handrail above the “glove compartment”, and in the center of the panel are a clock with the Chrysler emblem. Of the functional innovations - the "electronic information center", in fact, a trip computer that monitors fuel consumption, temperature and even equipped with a compass.
However, trying to describe the interior of the RT-Cruiser is a thankless task! Look at these touching “saucers” of devices, panel inserts to match the body color, the awkwardly large steering wheel, the chromed ball of the gear lever … do you really not like it? The automobile spirit of the 30s soars through the cabin; a naive time that can never be returned.
… How to enter this stupid courtyard - if the corridor with cars turned by 90 ° is generally called a courtyard! No, such exercises are definitely not in the taste of the RT-Cruiser: with less than three turns of the steering wheel from lock to lock, the car requires an indecent amount of space for a turn, so you have to go back and forth as if you are parking a five-meter dreadnought. But in size the car belongs to the golf class!
Now customers are offered two versions of the RT-Cruiser: with 1.6-liter engines (115 hp) and “mechanics” for 18, 900 euros ($ 22, 700), as well as a 2.4-liter 143-horsepower version with “automatic "- it is estimated at 22, 200 euros ($ 26, 700).
The transfer of leverage from "parking" to "drive" is accompanied by hefty shocks, once again returning many years ago. Gas to the floor and … disappointment. One and a half tons are accelerated with laziness, which you do not expect with a motor of such a volume. And his voice goes into a roar in kick-down mode. Which is doubly offensive, since there is no mention of an accelerator pushing into the back.
