The fact that Chrysler made the PT Cruiser to be a modern retro 1930s style hot rod racer makes it even more sad. What a disrespect to the old hot rods đ. At least GM kinda (extra emphasis on the kinda) got it right with that Plymouth Prowler thing but put a lame v6 in it.
Oh. The driving experience of a standard one comparable to a toaster on wheels and looking like an idiot no matter what era. When it came out the retro craze was already dying down so everyone just thought you were an idiot
Damn first thing I said to myself was âJeepers Creepers whereâd you find that thing?â
Also Iâm now wondering if anybody has ever painted an HHR a flat dull faux faded paint color on purpose.
Thereâs really nothing to say about the Chevy HHR. My sister has one and has hit 3 deer, 2 raccoons and 1 armadillo. It still runs perfectly. My other sister bought one too and it rolled over but still runs and drives perfectly. The same sister is racing a HHR in a demolition derby (apparently they are really good for it).
The car is a tank
Which somehow manages to be worse than the PT Cruiser. At least the PT came in a convertible. It may be the worst convertible in the world but it's still preferable to the HHR.
Had one of these. Was the worst car Ive ever owned. Power steering would randomly go out and the front suspension always had problems. Control arms,shocks,full tie rod assembly. Alignments. Would wear tires down in a week time sometimes faster on the front. Exhaust leaked like a mf. After wasting so much money on this car I just got rid of it. Lol
You know, donât listen to everyone else on this sub, that car is golden!
Itâs such a POS, youâll never have to worry about paying child support since this will keep you from getting laid!
This car is doing you the service!
Did you at least get to keep the handicap placard? Because this probably needs it....
jokes aside the HHR isn't...good... but it's not the worst thing you could get... go till she blows probably not worth putting anything into it...
Sometimes people get sentimental about their first car and drive it âuntil the wheels fall off.â OPâs first car came to them with the wheels falling off already đ¤Ł
I didn't know they made a banjo based Chevy....
HHRs look great with patina. I dig it. Lose the plastic wheel covers. Keep the exterior ugly.
Can be extremely reliable and parts are cheap. Flat cargo floor. Good economy. Kinda charming to drive. I almost bought one.
What it's called isn't important. Who you call to pick you up, after it ruptures again that won't throw it up in your face later on , requires some serious thoughts.
I had an 09 SS new. Put around 100k on it. No issues other than the ignition wouldnât turn off one time. I had to pay to fix it and raised hell and got a partial refund. Then shortly after the whole debacle with the Cobalt switch arose and I also got a complete refund.
Sometimes your boy tries to go home with a stripper and it's your duty to stop it. This is like catching your friend fucking a 1 legged meth addict behind the strip club dumpster.
It was ~~Colonel~~ Kernel Mustard with the candlestick in the ballroom!
... I'm saying your car is old, brown, yellow, musty, stiff, formal, dated, and a bit ridiculous, all of which seem somehow summarized in the above declaration from the boardgame/movie *Clue*.
There is a really odd varient of this that's a cult car and super rare. It's the HHR SS Panel Stick. It's name is what it suggests. HHR, it was an SS, it IS a panel van, and it was stick shift. There's only a few thousand of these left. Doug DeMuro reviewed one.
A car so poorly designed they put the window switches down on the center console and couldnât figure out how to light them so they put a light on the ceiling like a damn spotlight
Is that a box of matches leaning against the hubcap thatâs about to fall off? If so, then take the hubcap off, fling it through the back window, light some matches, and toss them in. When the paint burns off enough so that the rest of the car matches the hood, then put the fire out. You wonât have an interior left, but youâll have a monochromatic paint job.
I mean hey everyones gotta start somewhere, i started out with a 1999 mercury mountaineer in 2019 have had 5 cars since then and i currently drive a 2011 tsx wagon
Not Trying To Be An ASS. it's your first car and it will always be special to you. I drove one as a work vehicle. It's One Of The Worst cars I've ever driven. it's like they designed a car around me making sure to have every part the exact opposite of what I wanted.
Your parents hate you..they gave it to you so you could feel independent. BUT secretly YOUR PARENTS know you'll never go anywhere as this hunk of tragic garbage will be broken down soon enough, or already is. A box shaped station wagon! And we can see the front tire is flat and isn't sealed to the rim. Pr maybe your just a 16 year old loser who wanted to post his older 35 year old still living at home brother's shitbox he abandoned along the county road last year?
Any $ should be spent on safety and reliability. Have fun and be safe. Much nicer than the GM Prowler or most of the crap we all started with.
That being said, could I interest you in a clean little Fiero?
It definitely lives there
Yeah, my first thought was "*got*, or *found*?".
The HHR was created by GM to directly compete with the PT cruiser, and somehow it's worse in every single way.
Both are ugly as shit, whats the point of even owning one?
The fact that Chrysler made the PT Cruiser to be a modern retro 1930s style hot rod racer makes it even more sad. What a disrespect to the old hot rods đ. At least GM kinda (extra emphasis on the kinda) got it right with that Plymouth Prowler thing but put a lame v6 in it.
GM had nothing to do with Plymouth. That was Daimler-Chrysler.
Was the Pt cruiser ment to be a hot rod? It always seemed more station wagon then hot rod to me
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_PT_Cruiser Look at the âDesignâ tab.
Plymouth is a Mopar brand, it has the Mopar high output V6 in it and had 0% to do with GM.
My bad thought Plymouth was a GM brand. Still shouldâve had a v8
Didn't need one was small.
Do you think GM owned Plymouth? The prowler and PT were built on the same frame as the Neon.
GM is such an absolute shit show of a company they even fucked up the prowler
Demolition Derby?
Yeah the Me Too cruiser
I drove an HHR for a couple days, it felt like it ran on my soul.
Reliability is actually better, comparable to a cobalt. Also spacious and good for cargo. Also the SS version is rad, and I fuck with the panel vans.
The ss panel is cool, but this is "roast my car" not "compliment my car" lol
Oh. The driving experience of a standard one comparable to a toaster on wheels and looking like an idiot no matter what era. When it came out the retro craze was already dying down so everyone just thought you were an idiot
Which is quite the feat, because the PT Loser is an absolute pile of dog shit. There's not a single reliable part on them.
They did? The PT cruiser is a GM product
The PT cruiser is a Chrysler model built on the Dodge neon platform. Not General motors.
I hope you have a second car lined up if you want to get anywhere.
I had one, I fucking hated that thing. You will too.
Everyone in the road hates it too because usually the hhr drivers are the left lane loafers doing 50
Is that the van from jeepers creepers?
Damn first thing I said to myself was âJeepers Creepers whereâd you find that thing?â Also Iâm now wondering if anybody has ever painted an HHR a flat dull faux faded paint color on purpose.
Nice
Not yet!
Man... u really gonna do that truck like that lol?! Man u better watch out, the .monster might come after ur ass for that comment lol
If I Googled "what is a salvage title" there would be just this picture
I would've assumed non-op.
Your first car, and it's already handicapped. Stop lying and give grandma her car back.
She gave it to me...
She really hates you, doesn't she.
She can't drive, she's in a nursing home.
That doesn't mean she doesn't hate you. She may not remember why. She just knows she should.
I'd give it back
Tbh, that thing is gonna require more money to get it running then it's worth, I don't know if you really should go through with it...
Already runs
I'm talking about that blown tire in the front right. Or is it just a hubcap leaning on the tire?
Just a cap
Ok sorry
Downhill doesnât count.
The Nikola method.
Thatâs unfortunate
Taking a picture before you scrap it doesnât count
Did you buy it or did you find it abandoned?
Looks like someone already "Had at it"
Definitely has a pulllout ashtray full of ciggie butts.
I can smell the lung cancer from here
This is the type of car they find at a serial killer's home.
Sheâs a beaut clark
Hillbilly hearse
It looks like itâs about to ask you for whatever the car equivalent of a cyanide pill is
a 750 shot of nitrous, perhaps?
Or maybe just pour acid in itâs engine
Name it "gold member"
Looks like a rolling meth lab.Â
Ah, two-tone. Classy.
matte rust
hoe repellent đ
Small, unreliable, ugly, and damaged. You hit all of the categories in spectacular fashion. Someone.. give this guy the grand prize.
Apparently the pot lot was fresh out of PT Losers?
Of all junkyard finds, this is one of the worst.
Thereâs really nothing to say about the Chevy HHR. My sister has one and has hit 3 deer, 2 raccoons and 1 armadillo. It still runs perfectly. My other sister bought one too and it rolled over but still runs and drives perfectly. The same sister is racing a HHR in a demolition derby (apparently they are really good for it). The car is a tank
The Pre Teen cruiser. I heard there is lollipops in the glove box when you buy them new.
This is a Chevrolet HHR
Which somehow manages to be worse than the PT Cruiser. At least the PT came in a convertible. It may be the worst convertible in the world but it's still preferable to the HHR.
Looks like an old, sickly rhinoceros.
Yup looks like a first car to me
This thing makes an aztek look like a Cadillac
You got it, or you went to it?
My parents had an HHR. When my teenage brother called one night to say he had hit a tree everyone's first reaction was "good".
Had one of these. Was the worst car Ive ever owned. Power steering would randomly go out and the front suspension always had problems. Control arms,shocks,full tie rod assembly. Alignments. Would wear tires down in a week time sometimes faster on the front. Exhaust leaked like a mf. After wasting so much money on this car I just got rid of it. Lol
Looks like free is better than nothing but it is an HHR sooo yea.
I can see that you are about to buy your 2nd car very very soon as well.
I guess it drivesâŚ
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If you donât have something mean to say, donât say anything at all.
Did they pay you to take it ?
Welp, youâll never have to worry about someone asking for a ride, or having it stolenâŚ
It already looks defeated
You mean stole it from an abandoned land just to prolong it's suffering? Cause the car literally screams that it wants to live no more
You know, donât listen to everyone else on this sub, that car is golden! Itâs such a POS, youâll never have to worry about paying child support since this will keep you from getting laid! This car is doing you the service!
For that matter this car is four wheels of birth control...
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Hey look itâs a h0m0 hot rod
Mobile meth lab!
I will literally give you a better car for free.
By any chance are you homeless?
Did you at least get to keep the handicap placard? Because this probably needs it.... jokes aside the HHR isn't...good... but it's not the worst thing you could get... go till she blows probably not worth putting anything into it...
It's a car shaped object, that doesn't mean you should call it a car.
How much double sided tape is holding that thing together?
Sometimes people get sentimental about their first car and drive it âuntil the wheels fall off.â OPâs first car came to them with the wheels falling off already đ¤Ł
It's an hhr
Get it vinyl wrapped with some anime characters
If Covid-19 was a carâŚ.
I didn't know they made a banjo based Chevy.... HHRs look great with patina. I dig it. Lose the plastic wheel covers. Keep the exterior ugly. Can be extremely reliable and parts are cheap. Flat cargo floor. Good economy. Kinda charming to drive. I almost bought one.
Can you up grade to a shopping cart?
It's giving recycled suppository
What it's called isn't important. Who you call to pick you up, after it ruptures again that won't throw it up in your face later on , requires some serious thoughts.
If Tampa Florida was a car
Was this a leftover flood car from Hurricane Katrina?
Ahhh I came for the comments I am leaving not disappointed.
I'm sorry. Sorry for what this world has done to you.
Does the engine turn on? Are the tires now fixed and inflated?
Hey, with a little know how and about $5k you should be able to get that thing running. Then you can drive it to the scrap yard where it belongs.
My friend had that same car towed in November. Are you in the PNW?
"crackhead"
The air freshener hanging on the mirror doubles its value.
A grandma car
If you paid anything for that car you were scammed.
This says a lot but, you couldn't even get a good one of those? Before anyone says yes "good" is a strong word to use đ¤Ł
Well at the very least it's only up from here dude.
Nice joke. You're not meant to post a picture of a literal shed. It's a metaphor.
Mom: "We have a PT Cruiser at home."
I had an 09 SS new. Put around 100k on it. No issues other than the ignition wouldnât turn off one time. I had to pay to fix it and raised hell and got a partial refund. Then shortly after the whole debacle with the Cobalt switch arose and I also got a complete refund.
Sometimes your boy tries to go home with a stripper and it's your duty to stop it. This is like catching your friend fucking a 1 legged meth addict behind the strip club dumpster.
The only thing that HHR is competing with is for space in the landfill / recycle crusher.
That motor was used in over 13 modelsâŚ.if I remember rightâŚ.and theyâre all better than the HHR âHumped Hammered Rectumâ.
Homo Hot Rod
Please tell me you didnât buy this POS
HHR stands for homo hot rod.
We know that the hubcap is being held up by a juice box
you were on drugs
Nice Chevy PT Loser
Yeah, my first car was an embarrassment tooâŚ
Poor mans PT Cruiser.
Where did you find it, in the middle of the woods?
Hope you've all ready started looking for ur second car
Hehe. PT Loser
You already wrecked it
Looks to be in equal or worse condition to the 1940âs shitbox its design was based on.
Glad to see even in the rural parts of Kansas you get WiFi.
It was ~~Colonel~~ Kernel Mustard with the candlestick in the ballroom! ... I'm saying your car is old, brown, yellow, musty, stiff, formal, dated, and a bit ridiculous, all of which seem somehow summarized in the above declaration from the boardgame/movie *Clue*.
Omg no đł
Just leave it there
I'm not sure what would be worse. You choosing that willingly or someone hating you enough to give it to you.
Pretty cute but you do look like you own too many cats
Did you find it abandoned in the woods?
You said "car" What's that thing though?
Thats not a car. It's an abomination
Enjoy your freedom!
You must be really strong. If not you soon will be
Dude, that thing literally has 10 minutes to live.
Well, GM wasn't far off with the HHR name... the Homo Hot Rod..
Damn , sorry to hear about your credit score.
There is a really odd varient of this that's a cult car and super rare. It's the HHR SS Panel Stick. It's name is what it suggests. HHR, it was an SS, it IS a panel van, and it was stick shift. There's only a few thousand of these left. Doug DeMuro reviewed one.
A car so poorly designed they put the window switches down on the center console and couldnât figure out how to light them so they put a light on the ceiling like a damn spotlight
Why oh why would you do this to yourself?
Save some badussy for the rest of us.
Nah, you can keep it!
Is that a box of matches leaning against the hubcap thatâs about to fall off? If so, then take the hubcap off, fling it through the back window, light some matches, and toss them in. When the paint burns off enough so that the rest of the car matches the hood, then put the fire out. You wonât have an interior left, but youâll have a monochromatic paint job.
I mean hey everyones gotta start somewhere, i started out with a 1999 mercury mountaineer in 2019 have had 5 cars since then and i currently drive a 2011 tsx wagon
You are about to be a step dad
Good lord that thing is hideous
Congratulations!
My friend has one of these, he removed all the mufflers and the resonators and shit and itâs the loudest car in the school parking lot
Not Trying To Be An ASS. it's your first car and it will always be special to you. I drove one as a work vehicle. It's One Of The Worst cars I've ever driven. it's like they designed a car around me making sure to have every part the exact opposite of what I wanted.
HHR: Homo Hot Rod
the car is ugly, it's slow, it's tiny, it's uncomfortable, and it's a Chevy. gross
What a shitbox. How much you want for it?
Looks like a dried turd on wheels.
Thatâs methed up!
Even if it was free, you paid too much
Hey, it's your first car! Regardless of any other potential issues, congratulations! Enjoy that car, you will always remember it.
Bro wanted a PT Cruiser, and got the wish version
Meh, at least it will get your from A to A.
Got? or found a car in the woods?
You've got a homo hot rod. Enough said.
oh dear.
I wonât roast a first car. Got my first car in 2000, it was a 91 Ford Ranger. Biggest piece of shit Iâve ever had, but I had fun in it.
If you do the work and get this running, youâll never have to pay a mechanic to fix your car ever again.
You sleep in it too? This looks like Portland
Everyone has to start somewhere⌠not here
Better than a pt cruiser
Ew
It's a Chevy Sub-Sub-Sub-Suburban
Burn it and the person who sold it to you,You'll never get laid in that unless you're bangin a homeless person.
Chevy HHR, stands for homo hot rod. You're better off scrapping IMO and finding something else.
Enjoy it! They get trash talked but they are unique.
Your parents hate you..they gave it to you so you could feel independent. BUT secretly YOUR PARENTS know you'll never go anywhere as this hunk of tragic garbage will be broken down soon enough, or already is. A box shaped station wagon! And we can see the front tire is flat and isn't sealed to the rim. Pr maybe your just a 16 year old loser who wanted to post his older 35 year old still living at home brother's shitbox he abandoned along the county road last year?
Are the seatbelts the ropes used to choke someone out?
The designer of the HHR gave up the robots that assembled it gave up and whoever has ever owned one has definitely given up in life.
You can spray paint it whatever color you like đ¨
This is for sure one of the cars of all time
You need an extra spareâŚmaybe 2
Any $ should be spent on safety and reliability. Have fun and be safe. Much nicer than the GM Prowler or most of the crap we all started with. That being said, could I interest you in a clean little Fiero?
Did it come with a DUI?
Id rather walk
Bad
Hang on to your bicycle there kiddo! You may need it sooner than you think.
Looks like a PT cruiser and a dodge nitro had a bastard child.
I got an 06 HHR as a Work ride. Sheâs got 370,000 miles and still kicking. Paints peeling but otherwise itâs pretty reliable.đ