20 September 2002: As we revealed to you during the summer, Chrysler is launching a new version of its PT Cruiser, the retro looks of which captured the American imagination. And the California Cruiser concept will show just what is the next evolution of the car in which many of us can imagine we’re Al Capone or his G-Men opposition on the ‘good guys’ side.

The 2-door concept has plenty of space for four people, but can be, according to Chrysler, ‘transformed into a hotel room for two’, which raises all sorts of imagination pictures.

The Chrysler Group presented the first concept leading up to the Chrysler PT Cruiser in the spring of 1998 at the Geneva Motor Show with Pronto Cruizer. It was followed in 1999 by the Company’s most short-lived concept car – the PT Cruiser – since the production version was rolled out within five minutes at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.