Today is officially the last day of the PT Cruiser’s most recent lease on life. With its previous death sentence having been deferred by a floundering Chrysler brand in need of market-ready product in its post-bankruptcy phase, the diminutive and too-long-lived caricature of ‘90s car design is finally ceasing production.

We’ve lost count of the number of times Chrysler has threatened to kill off the PT Cruiser. Constructed on a platform that was long since replaced by the Caliber and posting relatively slow sales figures every month, there never seemed to be much reason to continue the PT Cruisers construction.