Chrysler’s charismatic chairman Lee Iacocca gave his firm’s new 1984 minivans a personal sendoff at a November 1983 Detroit press preview. One exec had trouble opening the sliding right side door on the Dodge Caravan display model, a portent of many little problems that would plaque early production units. Yet even that didn’t dampen demand for these practical front-drive people haulers cannily based on the compact K-car platform. Within a year of launch Chrysler had moved no fewer than 193,000 of them.
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