Chrysler is recalling more than 367,000 Dodge and Chrysler minivans because the air bags can go off unexpectedly. It’s the second recall of the 2008 Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans for a similar problem. Those vans were recalled in January because water from the air conditioner could leak onto the computer [...]
The Japanese automaker has been selected to produce the “Taxi of Tomorrow” after submitting a bid based on its NV200 minivan design, sources said. Mayor Bloomberg is set to make the announcement Tuesday morning at City Hall. Sources tell NY1 the Taxi and Limousine Commission has selected the automaker’s design as the “Taxi of [...]
A neighbor says a New York woman who drowned herself and her three children in the Hudson River had been in a loud fight with the kids’ father in the hour before the fatal plunge. Latoya James tells the New York Post and Daily News that distraught mom Lashanda Armstrong hid in her apartment Tuesday [...]
On Tuesday evening, a mother in the industrial town of Newburgh, New York, drove herself and her four children into the Hudson River, off a boat ramp several blocks from her home. Her eldest son escaped the minivan and fled to get help, but the woman and her three younger children — two boys, aged [...]
Minivans aren’t just for soccer moms anymore, according to Chrysler, which unveiled the 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan R/T this morning at the Chicago Auto Show. Known internally as “the man van,” the Grand Caravan R/T packs a 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 capable of a best-in-class 283 horsepower, along with an all-black interior, black leather seats with [...]