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Interior
The car interior has enough free space for seven adult passengers, who can sit comfortably on comfortable seats.
The materials used in the interior decoration leave much to be desired in some places: the cruise control buttons located on the steering wheel look quite cheap, and some parts are made of hard plastic. At the same time, the owners of the Dodge Caravan note that there is enough free space in the cabin for transporting cargo and three rows of full-sized seats.
There are various niches and compartments in the door panels and under the second-row seats for storing and transporting small cargo. The luggage compartment volume is quite large and amounts to 750 liters. By folding the third row of seats, you can increase the trunk to 2000 liters, and by folding the second row – up to 4551 liters.
Maintenance costs and cost
Since cars are not officially sold in Russia, it makes no sense to talk about trim levels and prices for the Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Voyager.
Both cars in good condition can be found on a budget of $10,000 or more. That is up to 1 million rubles there is an impressive number of worthy offers. If you increase the budget to 12-14 thousand dollars, then you will easily find diesel versions, cars of the latest years of production and in a rich configuration.
Since these are family cars, they are practically never outright dead in terms of suspension and engine. You will have to spend approximately the same amount of money on maintenance. As well as all associated operating costs. Cars are not the cheapest to maintain, which is something you should be prepared for in advance. Try to look for a Dodge Caravan or Chrysler Voyager with less than 200 thousand kilometers.
Let’s take a look inside the Dodge Caravan
The interior of an ordinary minivan cannot boast of expensive leather inserts and a multimedia system with voice control, but the Dodge Caravan can provide everything you need for short and even long trips: here you will find variable seat adjustment, easy access to the main controls of the car, and incredibly roomy interior. The developers also took care of the periodically arising need of most ordinary car owners to transport goods, so even the initially considerable trunk volume of 566 liters can be increased to a colossal 4160 liters by removing the rear row of seats.
Dynamics, speed and fuel consumption
The question deserves special attention maximum speed of carsfuel consumption and acceleration from zero to 100 km/h.
Chrysler Voyager gives the following numbers:
- maximum speed 165-208 kilometers per hour;
- acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h takes from 9.5 to 12.8 seconds;
- fuel consumption in the combined cycle for a gasoline engine is 10.8 liters per 100 km, and for a diesel engine about 8.4 liters.
Dodge Caravan responds to this with the following data:
- maximum speed 180 km/h;
- acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 10.2 seconds;
- fuel consumption in the combined cycle is 11.7 liters per 100 km.
There really is a difference. And here the Chrysler Voyager looks like a more attractive choice in terms of speed, dynamics and fuel consumption.
What’s interesting
Dodges and analogs with 3.3 and 3.8 liter engines produced before 2005 are available in all-wheel drive versions.
Top versions are equipped with electric rear and side doors, electric and heated seats, multimedia centers and other imaginable and inconceivable bells and whistles for happiness in the body. In terms of comfort, these cars are very far from my simplest budget Dodge.
Until 2005, all of them had a three-seater rear row and rode on a mighty skid back and forth by 15 centimeters. To, if necessary, increase the luggage compartment. The backrest of the third row is foldable. In addition, all rows of seats are removable (you can remove them and sit on them next to the car) and can be swapped. That is, the three-seater rear sofa can very well move to the second row. Also, instead of a second double seat, two separate single chairs can be installed. On the restyled (2005-7) Grands, the seats in the second and third rows fold into the floor. In general, everything is quite interesting.