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Originally Posted by dammage79
Up until maybe 15 years ago, minivans were horrid contraptions. It wasn't propaganda when you look back at Astro vans, windstars, aerostars, old caravans, venturas, lumina vans.
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I dunno, they may not measure up today, but if you compare them to most of their contemporaries, they were often still a step up compared to what your average person drove. And if you compare them to what they were replaced with (SUVs), they were leagues ahead in refinement. If you think a Caravan was spartan, go drive an old Jimmy or 4Runner... those things were basically tractors with doors.
Maybe because we didn't have much money money and my family drove small Japanese hatchbacks, but every time I had the honor of being driven in my friend's
Grand Caravan, it felt like being inside a rolling palace. They sure didn't have luxuries like "captains chairs" or "power windows" in our Mazda 323.