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Delivery drivers, casual retro fans and retirees.

At the time there was no surprise that the PT Cruiser was popular. Retro styling was not a thing. All cars had generally terrible interiors and even the mustang made less than 300 hp at the time. The PT Cruise was popular because it was not a van, not an SUV but you could fit people and stuff in it. It was really the…

It’s obviously for people who LOVED the PT Cruiser but have bumper stickers on their Chevy that read, “I’d rather PUSH a CHEVY than drive MOPAR”.

I still don’t get who the HHR was intended for. People who don’t like being able to see out of their cars perhaps?

In case you needed some kind of scale:

I know 2 people who had their Citations split in half.

Jeep Liberty, Both versions. 

Nissan Murano Cabriolet. It was the worst of both worlds. CUV and Convertible. Bad at Both. It opened the door to the ugly car design era we are living in to this day.

Chevy Citation

I’m going to go with those awful Malise-era GM diesels. The ones with the 350 small block “converted” for diesel use.

Hummer H2

As bad as the PT Cruiser was, the Chevrolet HHR was more shameful. GM literally just hired the designer from Chrysler and had him make an even uglier version of the same car 5 years after the original was surprisingly popular.

I can tell you on good authority that is probably the situation here. My first job doing junior engineering was for a dealership group with 25 Ford and Mazda stores across the Mid Atlantic. I managed their inventory across their dealers, and Jim (the owner and CEO) had a ton of exotic cars. When he was done with them…

I think you figured it out. They’re doing the same thing with regular cars, why not exotics?

Pretty much.  They probably put them on dealer tags the whole time too instead of registering them. 

I really want to believe that someone went in to trade their Aventador for like, 40 new Rio’s.

Based on the prices of some of these lightly used vehicles, it would not surprise me if some friend of the owner, or perhaps the owner himself, is buying exotic cars, driving them for a bit, and flipping them through the dealership.

Como se dice ‘Hongqi’??

My money is on ‘honky’. I think it might sell well here in the South.

Holy run-on sentence that was difficult to read.