Road Test
Chrysler Grand Voyager 2.8 CRD Limited
Test date 16 April 2008
Price as tested £32,995
For Amazingly versatile, spacious interior, equipment levels, sliding rear doors
AgainstNoisy engine, mediocre performance, below-average cabin finish
So what elements do you need to voyage grandly, to carry you, loved ones and luggage across huge distances in safety and comfort? Large seats? Undoubtedly. Seven of them? Quite possibly. A practical, spacious cabin? Certainly. A refined, frugal engine, smooth drivetrain and cosseting ride? Tick, tick and tick.
This is what the Chrysler Grand Voyager aims to provide, and has done so with varying degrees of success throughout its history, which can be traced back to 1984 when it was born a Plymouth.
Its most recent iteration, for example, was as spacious as large MPVs get without buying a repurposed van, yet its safety rating was officially dreadful.
Nevertheless, this is a car whose customers appreciate practicality above all else. Buyers overlooked one of the worst Euro NCAP crash tests in history when Chrysler introduced seats that folded flat into the floor, and sales went up more than 50 per cent.
With the latest Grand Voyager, Chrysler thinks all the practicality of the lineage is still there, but with extra safety, value and refinement. So is it as good as Chrysler wants
us to think it is?
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