{"id":835,"date":"2004-12-14T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2004-12-14T17:15:56","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T17:15:56","slug":"car_review_chry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Car Review: Chrysler Town &#038; Country Minivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:T1bspEbUvhUJ:http:\/\/www.motorzoo.org\/2004.Chrysler.Town%2520%26%2520Country.jpg\"><br \/>\nI recently drove a couple of versions of the latest Chrysler Minivans: a basic short body length car and a longer Town &#038; Country version (rentals).  My quick thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They work, and includes some very useful design items.  The dashboard controls are easy to use (with the exception of the strange shifter) and the radio is not bad.\n<li>Air circulation on the short version is not great (for the people in the last row), while the longer version has adjustable air ducts throughout the mini-van.\n<li>Reasonable power, though they really should have a 5 speed automatic like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000692.php\">2005 Honda Odyssey<\/a>.\n<li>Handling: Low marks as the ride is rather soft, especially when the minivan has 6 passengers.  The 2005 Honda Odyssey feels more sure footed.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently drove a couple of versions of the latest Chrysler Minivans: a basic short body length car and a longer Town &#038; Country version (rentals). My quick thoughts: They work, and includes some very useful design items. The dashboard controls are easy to use (with the exception of the strange shifter) and the radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}