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Among the 160 Dodge entries in the MotorJury library, the Dodge Caravan 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 1983. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Dodge Caravan properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. 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 Fiat Fiat Uno, the Peugeot Peugeot 205, the Toyota Toyota 4Runner — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Dodge Caravan reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.2 L Chrysler K engine / K Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.5 L Chrysler K engine#2.5 / K I4 / 2.5 L Chrysler K engine#2.5 Turbo / K Turbocharger / turbo I4 / 2.6 L Mitsubishi Motors; drive goes through 4-speed A460 manual / 5-speed manual / 3-speed A413 automatic / 3-speed A470 automatic / 3-speed A670 automatic / 4-speed A604 automatic; the layout is FF layout / Front-engine, front-wheel drive / F4 layout / Front-engine, all-wheel drive (1992–2004). 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.
Within Dodge's own catalogue the Dodge Caravan sits alongside the Dodge 1500, the 1955 Dodge, the 1958 Dodge, the Deora. It was succeeded by the Dodge Journey (SWB) / Chrysler Voyager (LWB) (for Grand Caravan Nameplate In Canada). Design is credited to Bob Hubbach (1980) cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Le8l-cHGs |archive-url= https://w. Assembly is recorded at Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Windsor Assembly: 1983–2020) / Fenton, Missouri (Saint Louis Assembly / St. Louis North Assembly Plant: 1987–1995) / Fenton, Missouri (Saint Louis Assembl.
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