Chrysler minivans

Among the 144 Chrysler entries in the MotorJury library, the Chrysler minivans holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2000. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Chrysler minivans properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Hyundai Hyundai Santa Fe, the Honda Honda S2000, the Škoda Auto Škoda Fabia — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Chrysler minivans reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.4 L EDZ I4 / 3.0L Mitsubishi 6G72 V6 (China) / 3.3 L EGA V6 / 3.8 L EGH V6 2 / 2.5 L Turbo Diesel R 425 / 2.8 L Turbo Diesel R 428; drive goes through 3-speed 31TH automatic with 2.4EDZ / 4-speed 41TE automatic / 5-speed manual; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel drive / all-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Chrysler story

Within Chrysler's own catalogue the Chrysler minivans sits alongside the Chrysler Falcon, the Chrysler Chronos, the Chrysler Sunbeam, the Chrysler Avenger. The record names the Chrysler minivans (NS) as its predecessor and the Chrysler minivans (RT) / Dodge Journey (For SWB Version) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Brandon Faurote (1997). Assembly is recorded at Windsor Assembly, Windsor, Ontario, Canada / Fenton, Missouri, United States / Graz, Austria (Eurostar) / Fuzhou, China (Soueast: 2007–2010) / Taoyuan, Taiwan (CMC: 2005–2007).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Chrysler minivans was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.