Chrysler PT Cruisers what is going on with these junk heaps?

Oh My Gawd! Did you get behind a really slow driver a time or three? I have too and they were not PT Cruisers. So let me set the record correctly here. Yes, there are PT Cruisers out there that are sluggish. Mostly they are automatics and do lack power to rabbit out of the hole at a stop light. I happen to drive a turbo version of the 2003 model. This vehicle can (with very few modifications) take on a Mustang GT in a quarter mile and do over 112 MPH while leaving the Mustang choking on dust. My personal PT turns the needle past 85 any time I ask it to on the freeway here in California..and that is with all the extra smog stuff and no modifications other than a cold air intake for the engine. I have had it higher than 100 but figure that public safety is a priority so I tend to stick real close to the posted speed limit and highly recommend the same to others. So where, other than going slower than the posted speed limit is your documentation of the car being a junker? Were the fenders all crunched in? Was it bellowing clouds of smoke from the exhaust? Were there great torrents of steam blowing out from the engine compartment? Why weren't people passing said slow moving vehicle in the passing lane? Did you happen to think that the driver may have been having a physical problem such as returning from the dentist after having a root canal job done? Or maybe it was somebody's grandparent who, at the age of 70, was doing the best they can? Please, when you think a car is a junker that fits the description above or is moving too slow for traffic, notify your local sheriff's office or highway patrol. They are better qualified than you or I to determine a vehicle's road worthy condition or the driver's fitness to be in control of a vehicle whether it is a PT Cruiser or a Mustang GT or a Ferrari or even a Rolls Royce. Which leads me to this question, Had the vehicle been a Porsche, would you have called it a junker too? If so, maybe I should sell both my Porsche (and my PT) and get an F14 from the Navy so I won't be going too slow if you and I are driving down the same highway!

It sounds like the driver was having a seizure or something. I'm sure these cars will at least do the posted speed limit. Just drive defensively and you'll never be caught on the evening news all jammed up into some semi or PT Cruiser with your head on the other side of the hghway. Good Luck!

They look like the old early 40's crap cars. Little windows, no power, It pains me to look at them.

They have plenty of gettup and go.....just bad luck with the people you get stuck behind.

So you are going to get a PT Cruiser?

This seems odd. did you stop the driver and ask what the problem with their junk heaps was? Or did you consider it mught just as well have been a problem with the DRIVER of the junk heap? All cars on the road have many many parts. Some mechanical, some electrical. Maybe there was a bad computer. Maybe a bad water pump. Maybe the driver had a cramp in their leg and couldn't push on the gas pedal any harder. Don't condemn a whole fleet of vehicles because one of the breed either has a problem with the car or the driver!

I almost bought one but settled on the chevy hhr.Power wasn't the reason I didn't buy the pt but more the overall feeling I had that the car was really cheaply built.They have decent pickup which leads me to believe you were just stuck behind an old fart.

those cars have an inline 4 engine so theres ya problem

Mine goes 100mph (and it's not a turbo....) Sure you weren't driving the wrong way on a one way road?