[Jimster]

Well, the full story of the Neon is that it was released in Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand etc. it was pretty much the return of the Chrysler brand into the mainstream for these markets, though it was soon heavily berated for flimsy build quality, shitty automatic tranny, bad safety record, crap engines etc, especially when compared to similarly priced models from Europe and Japan.

Basically it dealt the brand a HUGE blow and only now with cars like the 300C and (to a small extent) the PT Cruiser are they ammending this reputation.