2008 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT Review
Originally introduced 24 years ago, Dodge's minivan keeps soldiering on and defying the odds. After all, consumer demand for this type of vehicle is melting faster than snow on a hot spring day. In February, Automotive News released numbers to illustrate just how fast things are going south for minivans. In 2003, 43.5 percent of American minivan owners who bought a new vehicle again chose a minivan. Last year, it was only 36.8 percent. Chrysler executives acknowledged that minivans are declining by replacing the small Caravan (short wheelbase) with the all-new Journey crossover. Now, the automaker is banking on the Grand Caravan and its luxury variant, the Chrysler Town & Country, to maintain a stronghold on a market segment it basically created (although, if you remember, Volkswagen was selling the Microbus in the U.S. as early as the 1950s).
