ICYMI It’s the end of an era, as FCA announced recently it will stop producing the Dodge Grand Caravan. Via drivingdotca
It’s the end of an era, as FCA announced recently it will stop producing the Dodge Grand Caravan in Windsor, Ontario this May.
By virtue of essentially inventing the minivan, Chrysler sold 15 million of them since 1984. Most other manufacturers followed suit, though now, there are few fighting it out to sell to a dwindling market that has discovered SUVs. The Ramchicken was a cargo van, with no rear seating and no rear windows. It had a four-speed manual transmission, the stickshift jutting out of the floor like a small spear. I would load it up with anything and everything, and that little four-cylinder engine would growl away, always getting it done.
With the front forks tied down, a dirt bike would fit in the Mini Ram. It made the trek back and forth across the country, and many parts of the U.S. It was nimble enough to launch a jet ski into a lake, until it wasn’t and a clutch was blown. The beauty? Parts were everywhere. If you’ve ever said, ‘I have a bunch of kids but don’t want a minivan,’ this was the vehicle you pictured not wantingI had other minivans later, when my sons were growing up. I didn’t stick with Chrysler, and I should have. The patented Stow ‘N Go seating remains some of the best tech I’ve seen, and every time I scratched and dented my arms wrestling seats out of a Pontiac Montana, I remembered that.
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