The Plymouth Voyager is a 4-door van / 6-door van from Plymouth, built from 1974 to 2000, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Under the bonnet: 318 CID LA V8.
How it came about
Plymouth Voyager is a nameplate for a range of vans that were marketed by Plymouth from 1974 to 2000. One of the few light trucks marketed by the division, the Voyager was initially a full-size van, later becoming one of the first minivans successfully marketed in North America. For its first generation, the Voyager was a full-size van, serving as the Plymouth counterpart of the Dodge Sportsman (renamed Dodge Ram Wagon for 1980). For 1984, the Voyager was reintroduced as a minivan, becoming a divisional counterpart of the Dodge Caravan. For 1987, the model line was expanded with the extended-wheelbase Plymouth Grand Voyager and the luxury-trim Chrysler Town & Country for 1990.
Three generations of the model line were sold until the closure of the Plymouth brand during the 2000 model year. The Voyager nameplate has also seen use multiple times under the Chrysler brand. From 1988 to 2016, the Chrysler Voyager nameplate was used for export-market minivans. Following the demise of Plymouth, Chrysler reintroduced the Voyager as a Chrysler for North America, discontinuing the model after 2003. The Chrysler minivans (including versions sold under Chrysler, Ram, Lancia, and Volkwagen nameplates) are a model family that collectively rank as the 13th best-selling automotive model line worldwide. The Plymouth Voyager minivan was assembled by Chrysler at its Windsor Assembly facility in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; from 1987 to 2000, the Voyager was also assembled at Saint Louis Assembly in Fenton, Missouri (North plant from 1987 through 1995; South plant from 1996 until 200
The hardware
Power comes from 318 CID LA V8; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 3-speed TorqueFlite automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Chrysler/Lancia Voyager (US, 2001–2003, Mexico SWB until 2007); assembly was at Fenton, Missouri (St. Louis North Assembly Plant). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Volkswagen Golf, the Lamborghini Countach, the Volkswagen Scirocco — show what else the money bought that year. Its Plymouth stablemates include the Plymouth XNR and the Plymouth Laser.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Plymouth Voyager — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.
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