Posted on 10/10/2011 6:00:11 PM PDT by Teflonic
Chrysler is getting rid of the soccer mom staple Dodge Grand Caravan minivan, the company announced on Monday.
2013 will be the last year the Caravan is sold, despite the fact it is currently the best selling Dodge vehicle on the market.
The more upscale Chrysler Town and Country minivan will continue on as the only van the company offers.
Chrysler created the modern minivan in when they introduced the 1984 model year Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager models.
Chrysler will replace the Dodge Grand Caravan minivan and the Dodge Avenger mid-sized sedan with a single crossover in 2013, Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said in an interview with the publication in Turin, Italy.
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Must be orders from headquarters, err, I mean Washington.
And one would have thought the Caravan to be the type to be government-approved as well. Way to go to shoot company in foot. Fare thee well, Chrysler . . . we hardly knew ye.
Central Planning is awesome, isn’t it? Just look at that stupid VOLT! Couple thousand sold, huh?
Nuttin’ like a ‘gummit owned company to crank out the correct products.
Best-selling model? Kill it. No one wants that old thing.
And the economy is in the crapper, why?
Maybe we’re all going to take a Presidential risky bet of an investment of sun-powered cargo vans - it’s all OK ‘cuz there were Obama Bundlers as co-investors.
Methinks the decision might have a little sense to it. Chrysler - at least - appears to be trying to make cars folks want, as opposed to Chevy Volts.
Had it been a government creti...er...minion, the decision would have been to make the Caravan all electric - with a range of 10 miles and a recharge time of 23 hours.
I always had a soft spot for Dodge. I bought their neons and got a lot of use out of them. My family van when I was a child was a Dodge passenger van. I also owned a dodge stratus, and it was a very good car for me. However, I bought a 2007 Dodge Caliber AWD. I never seen a car loaded with so many problems. I had to get rid of it because its rising maintenance costs, and my expanding family. Unfortunately, I predict Dodge/Chrysler will no longer exist in the coming years due to the events of the past several years. Its sad really, because car manufacturing was something we did better than everyone else.
That is the vehicle my Daughter drives. She probably qualifies as a soccer mom too.
Their other vehicle is a Toyota Camry.
Margins on the Caravan may not be good enough.
Why don’t they just get it over with and give us all a volkswagon. You know from that other experiment in corporatist central planning.
Oh wait. They already did that. Its the Volt.
They should rename it the Voltwagon.
All hail Obama.
Why don’t they just get it over with and give us all a volkswagon. You know from that other experiment in corporatist central planning.
Oh wait. They already did that. Its the Volt.
They should rename it the Voltwagon.
All hail Obama.
Ridiculous! Morons at motor companies BUMP!
. . you can say that again, . . oh , wait
Fiat.........
Farewell Dodge. We'll miss ya.
That’s what our Leftist government has been pushing for for the last 40 years - investment in losers whether companies, ideas, or people.
I bought a new Caravan once but I will never buy another GM or Chrysler vehicle. I am a Ford man for life now thanks to that kenyan we have in the whitehouse.
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