<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Grand Caravan]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Grand Caravan]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/grand caravan http://jalopnik.com/tag/grand caravan <![CDATA[Dodge Unveils Avenger, Grand Caravan Reboots]]> Here's the 2011 Dodge Avenger and "Man Van" Grand Caravan R/T. Moving on... [Chrysler] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5675648&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Chrysler Minivans Selling So Well They're Closing The Factory]]> Come Halloween, Chrysler will idle its St. Louis South minivan plant indefinitely. And, just so the 1,500 employees at St. Louis South are clear about the meaning of "idle indefinitely," co-president Tom LaSorda said, "We see no intent to rerun this plant. We're idling it and it will likely be fully closed." More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=397609&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[NYT Automobiles Gives Chrysler Minivans A Seemingly Unnecessary Smack-Down]]> We don't know if New York Times Automobiles writer Christopher Jensen's got kids, but if he had them, he'd know that handling is not really the most important requirement for a minivan. More important is the need — which he admits in his smack-down this weekend on the new minivans from Chryslerberus almost reluctantly — to pacify children to the point of "superstupor" (Yes C.J., we do like that one and may use it as often as is possible). But to levy charges of inadequacy against the new 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan and the 2008 Chrysler Town & Country simply because the handling is merely "average" misses the point. No self-respecting driver's driver would ever be caught dead driving one of these, or any other people hauler down the road. No amount of fine-tuning, mechanics or changes in structural rigidity's going to make a minivan with this level of options (and weight) fun to drive. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=394498&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Clarkson on the Dodge Grand Caravan]]> Some of you may remember Dan Neil's rather glowing review of the new Chrysler Town & Country Limited. You know, the one where he proclaims that a smart, sensible baby haulin' minivan makes him a total DILF. Well, Jeremy Clarkson is having none of it. Clarkson hauls his wife and three daughters to the great city of Ottawa where he rents a Dodge Grand Caravan. We should pause right here and explain that Jezza may very well have borrowed a 2004 Grand Caravan. We doubt he knows the difference. Truth is, we don't really care about Jeremy's take on a minivan. No, we're posting this because of his take on Canada:
But by the same token no one in Canada ever wins on the horses, or escapes from a knife fight with their life, or has an orgasm. It is Switzerland with wheat.
Damn skippy. [Times Online] More »
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