[FC] First Minivan

[mark at noakes.com]

Actually when the Corvan and Greenbrier came out, there weren't any 
"big" vans. They were all about that size. It wasn't until the 70s that 
the really large vans got cranked up. I never thought of my 61 8-door as 
a small van or a minivan; it was a van. Though I do remember people with 
big Dodge vans looking down on me for it.

Mark N

On 5/22/13 9:06 AM, Bryan Blackwell wrote:
> On May 21, 2013, at 11:26 PM, J R Read wrote:
>
>> Does everyone here agree that Dodge invented the minivan?
> Nope :-)
>
> Reading the description of the Greenbrier is very similar to Dodge's copy on the intro of their minivan.  Of course the VW microbus has many of the same characteristics.
>
> What Dodge really invented was the term, as far as I can tell.
>
> --Bryan
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