I find it to be cockeyed that the vehicle created by the evil Iacocca to copy Volkswagen-a Plymouth Reliant or Dodge Aires to be placed into a junkyard next to an example of my personal favorite minivan that Lee Iacocca and Hal Sperlich had copied when developing the K-car Chrysler minivan-the T3 Transporter/Vanagon.

I would have rather that the vast majority of the American public bought Volkswagens/Audis than their K-Car imitations, such as people buying a Sirocco/Corrado instead of a Dodge Daytona/Chrysler Laser, a Golf or a Rabbit pickup instead of the Simca-influenced Omni/Horizon, Rampage car-based Pickup Truck, and a Sundance/Shadow; a Jetta instead of a Reliant/Aires and an Acclaim/Spirit, an A1 Golf/Rabbbit-based Cabriolet instead of a K-Car LeBaron Convertible, an Audi Coupe instead of a LeBaron coupe, a B2 Volkswagen Passat/Quantum, a B3 Passat, or an Audi 80/90/4000 instead of a K-car Dodge 600/Plymouth Caravelle/Chrysler E-Class, Dodge Dynasty, and Chrysler New Yorker; an Audi 100/200/5000 instead of a K-Car Fifth Avenue and Imperial, and of course-a T3 Vanagon or a T4 EuroVan instead of Chrysler’s paltry minivans.

I do not appreciate the person writing to the evil Iacocca as stated in the letter below stating that she has been praying to god over the well-being of the Chrysler Corporation. I would rather that this person had instead prayed for the well-being of Volkswagen of America, the well-being of the sales of the French automakers Renault, Peugeot, and Citroen in the United States; the well-being of conventional frame-on-body Full-Size American cars on the GM B and Ford Panther platforms, the well-being of the Full-Size Vans produced by each of the Detroit 3 automakers; and the well-being of traditional 2-door Full-Size Utility Vehicles being the K5 Blazer/2-door Tahoe, Ford Bronco, and the Dodge Ramcharger/Plymouth TrailDuster; and last-the well-being of the Chevrolet/GMC Suburban.

Little do the Evil Iacocca, and Hal Sperlich both know that I could design and engineer that would be many more times better engineered than their paltry minivans, and would be built like both a Truck and a European Car. And little do the people who were a part of General Motors management and Board of Directors during the 1980’s and 1990’s comprehend that I could design and engineer a minivan that would be many more times better than their paltry Chevrolet Lumina APV/Venture/Uplander, Pontiac Trans Sport/Montana, Oldsmobile Silhouette, Buick Terraza, and Saturn Relay minivans; and also their paltry Pontiac Aztek and Buick Rendezvous Crossover Utility Vehicles; but equally good as or even better than the Chevrolet Astro/GMC Safari.

That minivan is my idea for a minivan based off the Subaru Legacy/Outback that would highly target the Nissan Elgrand, Toyota Alphard, Volkswagen Transporter, Renault Trafic, and the Mercedes-Benz Vito/Viano/V-Class/Metris; would be styled by one of the major Italian automotive design firms such as Italdesign Giugiaro or Bertone; and would be as overengineered as Mercedes Passenger Cars once were prior to the late 1990’s.

For more information on my Subaru Legacy/Outback-based van project, please see this earlier post about how I would personally run General Motors:

An Opel/Holden/Vauxhall/Subaru Van On The Legacy/Outback Platform

The evil Iacocca was also responsible for the equally paltry Ford Pinto during his long tenure with the Ford Motor Company, prior to him being fired by the Ford Motor Company. Not too long after his firing from the Ford Motor Company was when he was hired by the Chrysler Corporation when Chrysler needed a new Chairman after the short tenure of John Riccardo as the Chairman of Chrysler, after Riccardo, in turn; had served as the right-hand man during Lynn Townsend’s long tenure as the chairman of the Chrysler Corporation.