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Article: FULL-SIZE VANS ARE FILLING NICHE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2001
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In the late 1970s, an odd craze swept the nation. Ordinary people
began to purchase full-size vans. Entire companies were hatched
solely to provide customers with the goods they needed to transform
their ordinary panel vans into rolling pleasure palaces. Shag carpet
and CB radios festooned the dash, and wild paint schemes including
misogynistic murals coated the exterior.
Today, there are really just two manufacturers still in the full-
size van business: Ford and General Motors (the Chevrolet and GMC
divisions sell versions of the same van).
Blame for the wane of the full-size van craze can be placed at
the feet of the company that just left the full-size van business:
Chrysler. Minivans ...