The minivan not only saved Chrysler from driving off a cliff into bankruptcy, but it also changed the automotive world as we know it. Both the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager rolled off Chrysler’s Windsor, Canada, assembly line at the end of 1983 (for the 1984 model year), and ushered in the start of the modern minivan market. The funny thing about those ‘original’ minivans, though, is that they weren’t the first. That honor belongs to an aerodynamic piece of four-wheeled Art Deco that began riding
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