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How Ford created the minivan for Chrysler
Back to my favorite teacher, Al McNae and his penchant for enchanting the class with tales like competitions for the coolest color name (Come And Get Me Copper),another of my favorite stories was his perspective from within Ford as it gave birth to the minivan, only to be forced into watching fecklessly from the sidelines like one o'clock half struck as Chrysler went Altered Beast and let Lee Iacocca reboot the minivan as the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager in 1983:
"RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE"
According to Al, amongst the 1970s designers, one of the coolest ideas was "a small affordable van that looked and handled more like a car" with enough space to haul a full 4' x 8' plywood sheet laying flat and would better fit into a typical 7' American garage door. — Read the rest
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/07/21/how-ford-created-the-minivan-for-chrysler.html