By the mid-1990s, car designers had powerful new computer tools at their
disposal, allowing them to pursue low-volume, high-zoot projects that
before would never have recovered the development costs. The Prowler was
one such project. Inspired, if not plagiarized, by a retro-roadster
design by Chip Foose, the Prowler looked like a dry-lake speedster from
the 22nd century, with an open-wheel front end and low-slung hotrod
fuselage. Except they forgot to make it a hotrod. Intent on containing
costs, Chrysler stuck its standard-issue 3.5-liter V6 under the hood,
good for a rather less than spectacular 250 hp. The Prowler didn't even
have a manual transmission, which made it almost impossible to lay down
the requisite stripes of hot rubber. The result was a flaccid little
jerk of a car that threatened much but delivered little.
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