#dodge caravan

[vintagecamping]

Mini Van camping in Colousa

California

1992

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

im so sorry... i think fiat has fun cars but im still willing to sacrifice fiat to take out the greater evil (stellantis products) 🥺

EXCUSE ME?!

First off, if we weren't talking about removing their whole contribution from history you could axe Chrysler, which currently makes nothing but the Minivan you yourself have beef with from your encounter of it in Dodge guise.

Second off, since we are, you could axe RAM, and lose nothing you couldn't get from Ford or Chevrolet - well, besides that time they saw a Viper V10 and thought "You know what would be funny?"

Hell, if you really don't think that would sacruffice (that sacrifice would suffice), maybe go for Opel!

Their cool sporty cars are a rebadged Saturn...

...and a rebadged Lotus.

Okay, to be fair, I think I find the Speedster the prettier version, and the GT's first generation was a charming little thing.

Oh, and the headlights! These are the only pop-ups that I know of that were manually actuated - the movement of the lever beside the shifter is what physically moved the headlights.

And how did it do so? Well, have a look. I promise you're not expecting what's ahead.

So okay, the cool sportscars are cool. But also two. And what else is there? The uncool sporty cars.

Like the Tigra, only car for which "It's this or a bus" can be not just a threat, but also an earnest guess as to where this seat picture was taken!

Or the Calibra, which had the lowest drag coefficient of any mass production car!

As long as you picked the slow version, with the least powerful engine and front wheel drive. However, that there even was a 4x4 Turbo 16v is itself fancy enough to question its uncool status (hell, sometimes that AWD system even worked!). However: how do you think these actually ended up.

I mean, look at the Manta, its arguable predecessor. Am I saying it's not a cool car? Far be it from me!

But the jokes about Manta owners being tasteless chintz-splattering dudebrokes were enough to spawn multiple movies and a Wikipedia page reporting as much.

So when the Calibra dropped in 1990 -and especially when it got cheap, in the early 2000s- who do you think got ahold of it?

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Hey, at least none of them got the RAM owner treatment.

...it's right below me, isn't it.

Should've kept my mouth shut.

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[eightiesandninetiesforever]

Dodge commercial [1997]

Source [YT: arwuns]

[jettacar]

late birthday gift for a friend!! silly lil micra and caravan friend zippin around

[transport-methodology-101]

1993 1/2 Plymouth Voyager Sport Wagon. Some of the features included in the Sport Handling Package:- P205/70R15 Eagle GA tires, solid front and rear sway bars, and upgraded spring/shock rates. Leather-wrapped steering wheel and an AM/FM stereo with a cassette player. Externally; accent color fascias, front fog lamps, 15-inch 5-spoke cast aluminum wheels (set of four), sunscreen glass, accent color bodyside molding with black nerf, and "Sportwagon" decals. Was sold in "The Minivan Store" and available in 10 exterior SE colors.

Available with several engine choices including a 3.0L Mitsubishi V6 and a 3.3L Chrysler V6. The larger V6 engines were commonly paired with higher trim levels.

[grayrazor]

What cars do we think had the best and worst redesigns from the 1980s to the 90s?

[automotivealchemy]

Dodge Caravan R/T Sport Passenger Minivan Concept

[seat-safety-switch]

Couple of years ago, a bunch of the other car idiots and I got really into vans. We've spoken about vans before: they're basically big boxes on wheels, and they're designed to hold children and cargo. Of course, the most common experience the modern human being has with vans is with the oh-so-practical Dodge Caravan, a virtually unkillable bean-shaped commuter car that is most often seen on buy-here-pay-here lots after several decades of no maintenance and with every interior surface encrusted in the vomit of miscellaneous offspring.

It is for this reason that the Dodge Caravan has all but replaced traditional work vans. If you're a tradie, or even a delivery person, it's hard to beat the cost of entry. This appealing cost becomes even more so once you realize you no longer have to do oil changes or lift throttle when the number-six cylinder makes a break for it on the highway. What are you going to do, depreciate it further?

Of course, once the engine or transmission has popped, no fleet maintenance tech worth their salt is going to attempt to revive it. They'll fob it off onto auctions, where only suckers and complete idiots will buy them. Idiots like myself and the others, who started a spec race series with 1992-present Caravans and whatever engine-and-trans combo we could get the thing repowered with.

I'll tell you, nothing brings the thrill of amateur racing quite like diving deep into a turn and trying to remember if the blue long-wheelbase Grand next to you is the one with the 30-horse Kubota diesel or the twin-turbocharged LS7 out of a Corvette that mysteriously got run off the road near Mechanic's Alley. And all of that extra cargo room means you can bring your best friends along for a lap of the track, as long as the "track" is in a dirt field in a breakaway municipality that frowns upon the existence of the police, and your "friends" are the entire cargo area full of series-linked nitrous oxide bottles. Told you it was practical.