Forgotten Concept: Plymouth Pronto | The Daily Drive | Consumer Guide® The Daily Drive

This is an installment in a series of posts seeking back again on exhibit cars that we come to feel deserved a little extra focus than they acquired. If you have a recommendation for a Overlooked Strategy matter, you should shoot us a line or go away a comment under.

Plymouth Pronto

Very first Shown: 1997 Detroit Auto Exhibit

Description: 5-passenger subcompact hatchback

Revenue Pitch: “Another intelligent reaction to Plymouth’s calling for special, inexpensive transportation.”

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1st demonstrated at the 1997 Detroit Auto Present, the Plymouth Pronto was a modest, 5-passenger design research that wore retro design and style cues that would find their way to upcoming Chrysler Company output vehicles. Although referred to by Plymouth as a sedan, the small, upright Pronto showcased a rear hatch. The tidy Pronto rode on a 101-inch wheelbase and was just 149 inches long—about 6 inches lengthier than a Fiat 500. Alternatively of a sunroof, the Pronto was fitted with a massive, rollback fabric leading. As for colour, the Pronto was painted “Cool Vanilla,” even though the cabin was outfitted in Awesome Vanilla with sage accents.

Relatively pedestrian underneath the hood, the Plymouth Pronto was driven by a 2.-liter 4-cylinder motor borrowed from the Dodge/Plymouth Neon mated to a 3-speed automatic transmission. When the Pronto notion was demonstrated in Europe, the drivetrain was revised, with a 1.6-liter motor mated to a 5-pace manual transmission.

Most of course, the Pronto foreshadowed the front-close styling of the 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser, and its “floating” bumperettes remind us of those people on the Plymouth Prowler (which debuted as a 1993 thought car and noticed generation from 1997-2002). The very first of a trio of Plymouth concepts, the Pronto was followed up in 1998 by the Pronto Spyder 2-seat roadster, and in 1999 by the Pronto Cruizer (the Pronto Cruizer became a Chrysler in gentle of the impending discontinuation of the Plymouth brand).

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Specified this car’s put in automotive design and style historical past, I am impressed by how small details is obtainable about it on the net. That stated, even though the Pronto debuted a pair of intriguing design and style capabilities, it is alone not specifically exciting to glimpse at. The Pronto Cruizer, on the other hand, instructions a lot more awareness, and is an noticeable precursor to the preferred PT Cruiser. Just for pleasurable, click this backlink to see how a lot the Pronto resembles the European-market place Chrysler Java thought.

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