1,800 Mile Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Extreme Vacation Test!

See prime example California and Nevada doesn’t have the infrastructure for Electric cars🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

2:34 That song makes me want to bite off my tongue and die.

I wish my father spent time with me like this. Your a good man.

We have always had Chrysler vans and your right they are hard to beat. We used our 2000 Town & Country to move brother into his dorm, and then we used our 2009 to move me into my dorm. It’s a great vehicle & Chrysler is bringing the Voyager back for those shoppers looking for the basics. I love that your son chose the station wagon, he’s definitely your child that’s for sure. All automotive enthusiasts/journalists love wagons. You have a beautiful family Tom, your very blessed sir. Tom I know you’ve probably heard this a lot but a Tesla 3 would make a great long term vehicle for the channel.

My how time flies, they grow up so fast! I remember your extreme frisbee road trip, ahh the memories. Congrats Voelk family!
2:42 dad of the year Tom! 🤣

Loved this review. Thanks.
We own a fully loaded Dodge Caravan and ALMOST bought a Pacifica Hybrid. In the end we just could not bring ourselves to forego the amazing "Stow-N-Go" seating utility. One might think that with the "relatively small battery" and a lot of length to use, Chrysler MIGHT have been able to retain Stow-N-Go in the Pacifica PHEV, through more clever packaging, AND used the Electric Motor on the rear wheels thus providing AWD capability as well. However, that might have created a ride height more akin to an SUV, thus reducing it's ease of entry/exit.

In the end, we kept the Caravan as a 2nd vehicle and purchased a Kia Niro Hybrid Touring (their PHEV was not yet available when we purchased). Now the full EV version of the Niro has arrived although it is not readily available and there is ABSOLUTELY no way I could EVER financially justify the almost 40% price premium of that vehicle over the PHEV version. Our driving needs are totally amenable to a PHEV and we would actually use very little gasoline in a year.

RIP Lee Iaccoca, from the Mustang to the Minivan, he revolutionized the auto industry.

Consumer Guide: 2018 and 2017 Pacifica reliability 1 out of 5, hum 2020 third time lucky? Chrysler business partner, Fix It Again Tony (:

Dear Tom! I love your videos and I applaud the way you review cars from an unbiassed and objective way. But this video has got to be the best video I’ve ever seen of a car review. Including your family in it has made a big difference. Not to technical and very down to earth! You have a beautiful family and I wish you all the best!…

I've had 3 chrysler minivans over the last 30 years. If you are a suburban family, minivans are close to perfect. They're not great for towing, but otherwise they can't be beat. Ours carries 7 people, plus their luggage, and will still get about 23-24mph on the highway. I can fold down both rows of seats and it will swallow 4×8 sheets of whatever.

Really helpful and informative video. Thanks. We're not in the market for a minivan any more (empty nesters) but I've forwarded the link to the grown up birds who have left our nest and are, indeed, considering the mini-van vs SUV question even now (15-year old Prius finally died with nearly 250K miles). I think you're right about the minivan as a better choice overall. We need to just get over the halo of apathy and ennui that minivans seems to have! Last comment: around the 9:00 minute mark I could not help but chuckle. It was funny to see your test of the car's capacity for storing stuff moving from the usual Walmart parking lot and large volume tissue test to the real world packing up of student transfer. That mattress looked a lot harder to get in that van than a big block of TT…! 🙂

What a great review. This is why you are the best. That and being a Mariners fan.

Great review Tom…and you have a lovely family! We have a Pacifica too, same color as your tester but its not a hybrid. We considered one but we didn't want to lose the 2nd row stow and go seats. Its our mini camper on the road! Once folks can get past the so called stigma of a minivan, its one of the best Swiss army knife vehicles on the road….

Tom….this was your best video ever! The storyline, the photography, the family and the star of the show…the Pacifica were all outstanding. I have owned the gas version Pacifica for the last 2 years and it is hands down the best family vehicle out there. Just came back from a road trip and the built in Vac came in very handy multiple times to clean up all the little snacks the kids drop all over the van. Great job. Keep up the good work!

Common Toyota! You can make a plug in hybrid van and I will buy it!

Apparently his sons is hot!