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Subject:Chrysler Invention? (minivans)
From:KENWILFY
Date:Sat, 9 May 1998 10:26:19 EDT

I don't mean to start an anti-Chrysler campaign but I am getting kinda tired
of seeing these claims that they invented the mini-van.  I just checked out
the newest issue of Automobile magazine and they had a section devoted to
these vans which stated "The first and still the best".  I remember seeing a
commercial not too long ago where they were showing all of these supposed
firsts of Chrysler (first SUV, etc.) and included minivans showing this old
panel truck as thier example.
Is this false advertising or what?  I mean we know who invented the minivan so
how can Chrysler go around and tell everybody that they did it and they claim
that the first van was some kinda sorry lookin' panel truck?
The last time I rode in one of those things I got claustrophobia and car sick.
Not the first and definitely Not the best.
Sorry for the rant.
Ken Wilford
John 3:16