06/11/2008 21:24. Are you old enough to remember when Chrysler introduced the minivan?

That was back in November, 1983, when the U. S. automaker launched the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager as 1984 models based on an extended version of the K-car platform.

Remember how every family wanted one?

Parents lined up to trade in their station wagons on the new family favourite with its flexible, spacious interior perfect for carrying lots of people and lots of things.

Connie and I had one back then when our girls were small. It was the ideal vehicle for taking gangs of kids everywhere -from short trips to the ice cream shop or longer journeys to the cottage. And, of course, to the soccer pitch.

Moms and dads like us loved them. So what happened? How did minivans become objects of scorn, disparagingly... // Brantford Expositor