[AutoGuide.com]

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Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid is brimming with fuel- and emissions-saving tech.

Today, using the latest in hybrid vehicle technology, software and engineering, the all-new Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid gives owners a fully featured, fully functional minivan experience that blends an award-winning cabin, proven family-ready features, and the latest in versatility and safety into a highly compelling package.

In simple terms?

America’s first-ever hybrid minivan can help cut your fuel consumption, tailpipe emissions, and transportation-related carbon footprint while putting drivers on the forefront of modern, high-efficiency motoring. Best of all, it’s also brimming with technology and features that can help owners maximize the environmental benefits of hybrid driving, each and every day. Here’s a closer look at some of the features and innovations of the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan.

Read more about Why This Minivan Could Be Mother Nature’s BFF at HybridCars.com.

 

[llninja]

Yes, when you are stranded by the road, you are forced to walk, thus enjoying Mother Nature in the process (citing recent recall notice and pause of all deliveries until Chrysler can figure out a fix for the powering off while running issue).

 

[Mister Dave]

After you get the diodes replaced maybe.....

 

[jcanoe]

Yes but you can carry a team of Shetlands for when the van won't go.

 

[Upper5Percent]

Referencing the Chrysler Pacifica while it is in the middle of a complete recall?

http://insideevs.com/chrysler-pacifica-hybrids-recalled-us-canada-details/

 

[llninja]

Referencing the Chrysler Pacifica while it is in the middle of a complete recall?

http://insideevs.com/chrysler-pacifica-hybrids-recalled-us-canada-details/

Certainly, it's a case where Fiat/Chrysler contracted out to a marketing firm to get the word out, then the problem hit, and the contracts were already signed, projects put into motion, and the ads and sponsored posts are happening.

The good news is that most soccer moms looking for a hybrid minivan don't lurke on this forum. But it does beg the question of why Toyota or Honda haven't come out with their hybrid minivan. I don't count the Prius V as it really isnt' a hybrid minivan - it's a maxi Prius. I doubt the mainstream media will pick up on this one. If it was Tesla then it would be all over the airwaves/internet.

But I still got a chuckle out of this sposored post

 

[llninja]

Yes but you can carry a team of Shetlands for when the van won't go.

Shetland dogs or ponies are still too small to pull the van. And the van is too small to tow a horse trailer with two horses. You need a 3/4 ton pickup and a 2 horse trailers with 2 horses to pull this off...alas, the horses could pull a Pacifica, they cannot pull the 3/4 ton Suburban and the horse trailer. I think that tow truck is looking nightly fine right now.

 

[Henry_FL]

The AutoGuide account has been relentlessly spamming this vehicle for weeks, The mods won't do a thing about it for some reason

 

[rmay635703]

When I first glanced at the title I thought it read this mini van could be a mother

The AutoGuide account has been relentlessly spamming this vehicle for weeks, The mods won't do a thing about it for some reason

Auto guide owns the forum, they can advertise anything they want.

 

[llninja]

The AutoGuide account has been relentlessly spamming this vehicle for weeks, The mods won't do a thing about it for some reason

Under your name it says "senior member". Look under autoguide.com's name...

 

[Fyodor]

This takes me back to the days when I wouldn't leave home in a Chrysler vehicle without at least one spare ballast resistor in the glove compartment. Even my mother knew how to swap them out.

 

[Tomt]

Chrysler/Jeep/Fiat has the worst reliability record of any mainstream manufacturer... I'll pass!

 

[obermd]

The AutoGuide account has been relentlessly spamming this vehicle for weeks, The mods won't do a thing about it for some reason

Auto guide owns this site. AG does listen to site moderators so it's possible the mods either haven't notified AG or it's simply the weekend.

 

[llninja]

Auto guide owns this site. AG does listen to site moderators so it's possible the mods either haven't notified AG or it's simply the weekend.

Forum sponsors can post their own ads. Mods won't be removing their posts, period, unless the sponsor is namecalling, uses inappropriate language, breaking the forum rules, or being jerks. Such is business. You can't hit thenn]hand that feed you, even if you are volunteer and working for free.

 

[srmarti]

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Sounds like a complaint from Marvin the robot in the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" Sharp pain in all the diodes on his left side.

 

[obermd]

Forum sponsors can post their own ads. Mods won't be removing their posts, period, unless the sponsor is namecalling, uses inappropriate language, breaking the forum rules, or being jerks. Such is business. You can't hit thenn]hand that feed you, even if you are volunteer and working for free.

Very true. If the subject had been for a 40 gallon per mile coal roller then the forum mods would have some grounds to stand on. But there are sub-forums here about other, non GM EVs and hybrids.

Chrysler is the first company to realize that parents might like to reduce their daily transportation costs by making hybrid technology available on a family hauler. And yes, despite all the negative connotations of mini-vans, they are the ideal family hauler - easy to load and unload, versatile, and in many cases more comfortable than SUVs.

 

[llninja]

Very true. If the subject had been for a 40 gallon per mile coal roller then the forum mods would have some grounds to stand on. But there are sub-forums here about other, non GM EVs and hybrids.

Chrysler is the first company to realize that parents might like to reduce their daily transportation costs by making hybrid technology available on a family hauler. And yes, despite all the negative connotations of mini-vans, they are the ideal family hauler - easy to load and unload, versatile, and in many cases more comfortable than SUVs.

My family still has standing orders to shoot me if I purchase one. For years I've been considering replacing our suburban with a newer one, but now we are faced with becoming empty nesters 3 years earlier than planned (the youngest is headed to a very academically intense boarding school). So other than the trips to move her in and out, I can now start thinking about a 2 door coupe funmobile. It was cheaper for me to buy a 6x12 foot cargo trailer, borrow my son's Tacoma TRD and not worry about family hauling. Heck I could rent an SUV or minivan for those few occasions that we might want to travel and still come out way ahead.

 

[snorth]

I still intend to get one of these babies to replace our 2007 Grand Caravan, but probably waiting for the next model year now.