This is a first-generation Plymouth Voyager, part of Chrysler’s original minivan family launched for 1984 under the leadership of Lee Iacocca and Hal Sperlich. The Dodge version was the Caravan, and the fancier later sibling was the Chrysler Town & Country…but they were all based on Chrysler’s S-platform, which was closely related to the front-wheel-drive […]
If you love cars that are unapologetically El Camino’d, velour, and pinstriped…you are in for a treat today. But if you don’t appreciate seeing torque-thrust style wheels covering rear drum brakes on a mid 90s domestic minivan, you might need to re-evaluate your priorities. Personally, I think this thing would make a great first car […]
You might look at this next car and say (rightfully) “that’s a lotta cash to pay for an old Chrysler minivan”. You’d be correct, but you haven’t looked at the finer details of this thing…it’s got a manual gearbox, and a turbocharger and a second engine sitting in the back. There is a reason that […]
The Plymouth Voyager was a badge swap version of the legendary Dodge Caravan which was a large people carrier built on the Chrysler K-platform. Yes. Although called a “mini”van, the Caravan isn’t exactly “mini” by any typical measurement, but it did get powerplants shared with the K-car, included the Dodge 2.5 liter turbo-4. It is […]
With the news that Curtis James Jackson III (the rap artist who goes by the appropriately ironic stage name of “50 Cent”) has little more than a few quarters to rub together, it is time to find him an appropriate new ride to replace the Range Rover, Bentley Mulsanne, and Murcielago he used in his previous […]
Have the last two turbo minivans left you wanting more? The Dodge Caravan Shelby clone, with its rad graphics, and SRT-4 swapped Voyager, with 300 horsepower, both fell short in the gear-change department. Now, you can pulverize latent childhood insecurities by running a 13-second quarter mile in the first car you puked in, while feeding […]
Everybody loves a sleeper – that dowdy-looking car that attracts no attention until it lays down two perfect patches or blows the doors off of your buddy’s Vette at a stoplight. A station wagon is a good choice as a build platform, because it makes the end product that much more entertaining, but what if […]