The Chrysler Pacifica will have its tenth anniversary next year, as both the gasoline and PHEV versions enter 2026 with few changes. The 2026 Pacificas will not advertise their ten-year run, but will include a Chrysler 100 anniversary edition, celebrating the creation of the Chrysler marque in 1924, 100 years and 24 months later.
The Chrysler Pacifica was first made in the Windsor, Ontario assembly plant in 2016, as a 2017 model. It was the latest in a line of minivans dating back to the 1984 Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager; the Chrysler Town & Country arrived in 1990. The Voyager name returned for 2020 as the budget-minivan replacement, as the Dodge Caravan was dropped. There was no 2023 Voyager, but there was a 2024, and the Chrysler web site claims there will be a $40,495 2026 Voyager LX. The Pacifica starts at $43,645 ($52,260 for the plug-in hybrid).
Chrysler has slowly dropped vehicles, year by year, leaving only minivans. The marque now claims to make three models—Pacifica, Pacifica Hybrid, and Voyager.
Chrysler people in product planning and design started talking about minivans in 1972; at the time, designers were thinking about pre-customized commercial vans. Both groups quickly realized they needed something completely new, and by 1973 they’d settled on roughly the size and shape that would be made in 1983. The story of their progress, obstacles, and triumphs, as well as every other minivan generation, is in the book Mopar Minivans, available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and (in a slightly older version) Apple Books forms.
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