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2017 Chrysler Pacifica: the new minivans
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Feb 4, 2025
Hybrid and just-gasoline, lighter but stronger than the 2016s, with better seats, easier access, better doors, a nine-speed automatic, and state of the art, well, everything.
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we start out our look at the 2017
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Chrysler Pacifica with this limited
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Platinum version which I'm going to call
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Platinum from now on because it's
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shorter uh this comes with all the
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goodies including the vacuum although
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the rear seat theater is
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optional it is standard in a lower model
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which is kind of odd the blue one is a
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hybrid version and that's a plug-in
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hybrid you plug it in overnight uh it
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actually reaches a full charge in 3
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hours with a 240 volt adapter gives you
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a 30 mile range which is more than most
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people actually use most time most of
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days and it gets 80 mile per gallon
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equivalent in the city which is pretty
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incredible for a vehicle that right now
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let's just say doesn't do nearly as well
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the downside of the hybrid is it weighs
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4,900 lb you don't get all of the
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features that you can get with the
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regular one it's bound to be kind of
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pricey but it really does look good in
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that exclusive blue paint which you're
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not seeing
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done in full Justice in these video
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clips the uh the Platinum shown here
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really is a nice package you can get
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every safety device known to man just
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about in it it's got the 360° camera
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which is an interesting feature not
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available on most of the lower
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models and it's got beautiful leather in
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it overall every model from the LX which
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is the base on up is just much nicer
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looking inside and out than with the
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current minivans in my opinion I think
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that the front is much more attractive
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than the back but they've done a lot of
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work throughout and everyone gets the
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automat the advanced noise cancellation
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system which uses microphones and the
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stereo to defeat noise everybody gets
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major improvements in the sliding doors
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everybody gets improvements in stow and
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go although some of those Fe features
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are again limited to the higher range
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models
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you all get the nine-speed automatic
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unless you buy the hybrid and you'll
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notice up front that there's a new
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console it uses a knob shifter which is
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easier than the current shifter and
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feels less
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cheesy it's faster to use no word yet on
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whether they will have padle shifters on
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any model on the steering wheel but
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right now it looks like it won't also it
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won't have all-wheel drive most
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likely generally though this is a real
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serious engineering improvement over the
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previous one I think that the interior
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looks much better and I'm really looking
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forward to taking one out for a drive
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and also to seeing more specs on both
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the gasoline and the hybrid variants
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this is Dave from allar signing out
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hoping that we'll learn more soon
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