Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight
by jedberg on Saturday May 30, 2020 @06:55PM
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Yeah I noticed that trend too. :( It’s a shame because we had both and the van is just so much easier for hauling 6 people than any SUV out there.
Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight
by toast0 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:21PM
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The Dodge Grand Caravan and the Chrysler Town and Country were the same vehicle with badge engineering. The Town and Country was replaced by the Chysler Pacifica in model year 2017, but they kept making the Caravans on the old design with Dodge branding for cost concious buyers. In model year 2020, (Fiat) Chrysler is renaming the low end Pacifica models to Chrysler Voyager --- it could easily have been called a Dodge, but I guess they're trying to clean up Dodge to be muscle cars and trucks, like Ford is trying to do with their line up.
Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight
by yellowapple on Sunday May 31, 2020 @04:57AM
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> Dodge just put the nail in the coffin for the Grand Caravan
Its replacement is the Chrysler Voyager (another miniman, same parent company, different brand), not an SUV or CUV.
Re:All-electric Cessna Grand Caravan makes maiden flight
by cylentwolf on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:37PM
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The Grand Caravan interior was from 2005. It was showing its age. Also why make a minivan that sells around 30k when you can make an SUV that sells for 50k. It makes me sad but that is capitalism for ya.
Bad news: while you can still buy minivans, they're being phased out in favor of SUVs. Dodge just put the nail in the coffin for the Grand Caravan, and production stops this year: https://www.thedrive.com/news/33702/death-of-an-icon-dodge-g...
The investments are in the SUV/CUV segment where profit rates are higher.