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The minivan doesn’t get abundant respect. It’s accepted best as “a mom van” or a “grocery getter.” Automakers acquire approved to about-face the “mom van” into a “man van,” but their attempts haven’t been acknowledged acknowledgment antagonism from the added attractive, better-performing crossover SUVs.

However, Chrysler is still aggravating to exhausted stereotypes and accumulate the minivan rolling. “Chrysler will move advanced with just one full-size minivan while creating a additional ‘people mover’ to address to shoppers who wouldn’t about advance in a full-size minivan,” says Kicking Tires. To do this, Chrysler will absorb the Dodge Grand Caravan and the Chrysler Town and Country. Essentially, Chrysler will accomplish a bigger minivan and accord consumers one abundant option, rather than force them to acquire amid two models that are actual similar.

Kicking Tires letters that Sergio Marchionne, Chrysler CEO, says “If you’re a minivan fan, it’s time to get excited… You’re traveling to see some cogent plan getting done on the Dodge cast to try and yield some stigma abroad from the minivan,” adding, “I anticipate we can do some absolute air-conditioned things with the minivan.”

Chrysler isn’t the alone one action on vans. With the Volt on the market, Chevrolet feels assured that accretion the Volt ancestors will prove successful. Their aboriginal step? Abacus a minivan. “General Motors affairs to acquaint a constituent amalgam minivan based on the Chevrolet Volt by 2012-’13, according to CEO Dan Akerson,” says Inside Line.

Autoblog adds, “While abounding of the aboriginal prognostications acicular to a Voltec-powered Cadillac, a address from AutoWeek says GM CEO Dan Akerson is suggesting a minivan may arise first. There’s aswell some allocution that an alien auto is in the works (yes, the Volt is absolutely a auto that’s shaped to attending added like a sedan, but whatever).”

Based on the photo on Inside Line’s website, this minivan won’t attending like the models we’re accustomed with from Toyota and Honda because it’s congenital like a crossover. We’ll accumulate you acquaint as added advice emerges.

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