Redesign Rearranges the Furniture

AS long as parents have traveled with offspring there has been one overriding goal: keep siblings from engaging in verbal or physical combat as a form of in-car entertainment. The 2008 Chrysler Town & Country is tailored to parents who continue to pursue that ancient quest for tranquillity during travel.

Another option allows the second-row seats to swivel to face the rear. To the casual observer this appears to pay homage to Linda Blair’s head-turning character in “The Exorcist.” But Chrysler asserts that children will enjoy looking out the rear window or facing siblings in the third row during truces.
For example, the new Town & Country and its sibling, the Dodge Grand Caravan, offer separate DVD players for the second- and third-row seats. This superstupor option lets children of different ages view different movies. Neither of the main competitors, the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna, employs such a shrewd divide-and-conquer strategy.

The overall result is a package that is not compelling, partly because there wasn’t a serious effort to reward the driver who wants a connection with the vehicle. The Town & Country’s handling achieves, at best, the level of so-so. Meanwhile, the rear-facing seats, which look great in a sales brochure, are not so satisfying on the highway.

These new models have been a long time coming. This is the biggest redesign of Chrysler’s pioneering minivans since the 1996 models, although there have been some updates in the interim, including some new features.

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