Otto Maddox wrote:Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of hand fast!
Where did you get a grenade?
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Jan. 27, 2012 12:54 p.m. turboswede SuperDork
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Jan. 27, 2012 1:21 p.m. Grizz Dork
Trans_Maro wrote:
Grizz wrote:
Trans_Maro wrote:
Buy a station wagon or a good, mid-sized SUV and you can do the same stuff only better.
No you can't.
That's not an argument, it's just contradiction.
Nope.
Honestly, it's a fact. Like pretty much everyone else in this thread said, you can't do half the stuff a minivan does with a wagon or an suv.
I've seen my mom pull along 6 more people on a two hour trip to a bowling alley AND all of their bowling balls, and you couldn't do that with any wagon or suv without people thinking about murder. I also pulled the seats out of an older square caravan and loaded it up with 80 lb concrete bags and some bricks. The back suspension sagged what looked like two inches, but it was built to haul large numbers of fat americans so it had no issues getting back home.
I've put car parts, trash, furnaces, wood, sheetrock, tools. furniture and lord knows how much other crap into the vans my mom's owned, and not one of them broke or even complained about it. Hell, the number of small companies using minivans for electrical and plumbing work is rising a good bit around here.
The people I know who mock them or swear to hate them generally stopped when they rode in one and notice how comfortable they are, how much you can see out of one, and just how much E36 M3 you can stuff into them.
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Jan. 27, 2012 2:14 p.m. Stealthtercel HalfDork
So to go back to Lesley's post about the announcement of the Caravan R/T: I'm looking at my dodge.ca website, and they say the R/T features manly stuff like red stitching on the unique leather seats, streaming Bluetooth audio, and a remote USB port (remote from what? and why?) but not a word about upgraded sway bars or stiffer springs. Anybody out there with Dodge fu who knows what happened to the useful stuff in the original package? Can you still get it? Am I missing something I ought to be able to see?
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Jan. 27, 2012 4:19 p.m. ebonyandivory New Reader
With all the positives I'm reading (many of which, like hauling lumber etc. we haven't dealt with save for carrying two adults and three kids) coupled with the minority of naysayers, I do believe I'm gonna take over our '06 Caravan when the wife needs to buy a newer model.
That red Caravan in this thread had me at hello!
PS, not that I want to nitpick but please leave the Special Olympics jokes for the people on other sites. One never knows who among us has family that participates in said Olympics (hint, hint). Just sayin'.
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Jan. 27, 2012 7:38 p.m. Trans_Maro Dork
Sorry about that, my bad.
Shawn
P.S. I'm more than a bit out of shape, I doubt I could get a medal in anything.
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Jan. 27, 2012 9:25 p.m. T.J. SuperDork
In reply to ebonyandivory:
Thank you.
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Jan. 27, 2012 9:33 p.m. EvanB SuperDork
ebonyandivory wrote:
With all the positives I'm reading (many of which, like hauling lumber etc. we haven't dealt with save for carrying two adults and three kids) coupled with the minority of naysayers, I do believe I'm gonna take over our '06 Caravan when the wife needs to buy a newer model.
That red Caravan in this thread had me at hello!
PS, not that I want to nitpick but please leave the Special Olympics jokes for the people on other sites. One never knows who among us has family that participates in said Olympics (hint, hint). Just sayin'.
I couldn't love GRM the magazine or the website more...
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Jan. 28, 2012 12:29 p.m. ebonyandivory New Reader
T.J. wrote:
In reply to ebonyandivory:
Thank you.
You're welcome! (I'll admit that I'm not sure what the thank you was for... Either the thread itself or my post about the Special Olympics... Either way, you're welcome.)
