Sorry to hear that you will no longer be driving a 2nd. gen. van. I agree that that series were the best vans Chrysler ever made. I am the second owner of a 94 GC 3.3L assembled in Nov., 1993. I bought it in June of 05 for $4100; it had less than 52K miles on it. We have driven it from Chicago to: Las Vegas, Florida,& Cincinnatti without any trouble. It has never failed us and now is at 91K miles.
I have changed out many "wear out" items and have to do some more as the van still has most of the factory heater hoses and after over 19 years of service thay will probably start to obey Murphy's Law. Being a former USAF "flightline knuckle buster", I'm used to changing things before they go bad. "K" car derivatives are easy to work on, 96 vans & up are not IMHO. My BIL has a 2002 GC--- I wouldn't trade him even.
We also have an Escape; an 05 3.0L Limited with the 4 speed auto, leather inside and a moon roof. Bought from CarMax in Feb. 06. It was a Hertz rental in LA, assembled in Dec., 04. Had 13K wnen we got it---now has 20K miles. We don't drive it much.
Gets worse mileage than the van in the city. About the same as the van on the open road. Rides like a buckboard; Continental Tires howl like a banshee. Wife likes it so I'm stuck with it.
Good luck with the Escape. Just my $0.02.
FredB
I have changed out many "wear out" items and have to do some more as the van still has most of the factory heater hoses and after over 19 years of service thay will probably start to obey Murphy's Law. Being a former USAF "flightline knuckle buster", I'm used to changing things before they go bad. "K" car derivatives are easy to work on, 96 vans & up are not IMHO. My BIL has a 2002 GC--- I wouldn't trade him even.
We also have an Escape; an 05 3.0L Limited with the 4 speed auto, leather inside and a moon roof. Bought from CarMax in Feb. 06. It was a Hertz rental in LA, assembled in Dec., 04. Had 13K wnen we got it---now has 20K miles. We don't drive it much.
Gets worse mileage than the van in the city. About the same as the van on the open road. Rides like a buckboard; Continental Tires howl like a banshee. Wife likes it so I'm stuck with it.
Good luck with the Escape. Just my $0.02.
FredB