Autoweek magazine is talking about FIAT's ideas for Chrysler? Lots of changes coming and I read about the possibility of a new PTC in 2011, based on a larger chassis with a FIAT V6 that may look like the original PTC but just a bit bigger.
It would be made in the USA on a former Jeep assembly line as the Toluca plant in Mexico is being re-tooled to produce the FIAT 500.
The new guy from Italy running Chrysler is very positive on the PTC saying that it has a large dedicated owner base that want a new PT with more power and more size inside. Polling of current PT owners found that as the average age of a PT owner goes up each year, currently at 62, that they want a car true to the original in styling and interior. The bigger platform opens up some real hot rodding potential and the possibility of AWD options for the snow belt areas. It also opens up the potential for a van version to compete with the new Ford small car based van arriving in 2010.
Possible??
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