Washington reclassified the passenger version as a truck instead of a car, which made it much easier for Chrysler to meet CAFE fuel rules.
Lead trim: 3.9 LA V6
Dodge Ram Van / B-series1979–1997
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FactWashington reclassified the passenger version as a truck instead of a car, which made it much easier for Chrysler to meet CAFE fuel rules.
The second-generation Dodge B-series van, later named Ram Van and Ram Wagon, was built from 1978 to 1997 for the 1979–1997 model years at St. Louis and then Windsor, Ontario, and sold by Plymouth as the Voyager until 1983. It came in B150, B250 and B350 versions with short and long wheelbases. Engines were the 3.7 litre Slant Six, a 3.9 litre V6 and 5.2 and 5.9 litre V8s.
Collectors Spotted in the Dodge Ram Van / B-series Lineage
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Trims & Figures
3 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 LA V6 | 1979–1997 | 3.9 L V6 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5.2 LA V8 | 1979–1997 | 5.2 L V8 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5.9 LA V8 | 1979–1997 | 5.9 L V8 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
An estimate, for the 3.9 LA V6 trim: fuel on its EPA figure and a dated national price, upkeep on a per-mile average for the kind of car it is.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
In 2003, the last year of the Ram vans, the 1500 got rear vented disc brakes, the only B-series van ever to have them.
Washington reclassified the passenger version as a truck instead of a car, which made it much easier for Chrysler to meet CAFE fuel rules.
Plymouth sold this same Dodge van as the Voyager starting in 1974, years before Voyager became a minivan name.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
Chevy pitched the Astro as the anti-minivan, telling buyers life was too big for one, while it rode on a rear-wheel-drive truck frame.
The IIHS rated the Astro Poor in a 1996 crash test, yet 2001–2004 Astros later had the lowest driver death rate of any US passenger vehicle.
The boxy, unglamorous Astro quietly posted one of the best real-world safety records in America: IIHS found 2001-2004 models had the fewest driver deaths per million vehicles of any passenger vehicle on US roads.
The third-generation Tourneo Connect, released in Europe in October 2021, is a rebadged fourth-generation Volkswagen Caddy, assembled by Volkswagen in Poland.
Ford beat the 25% "chicken tax" by importing the Transit Connect as a passenger van — rear windows and seats included, then stripped out and recycled once it landed in the US.
Ford spent years in federal court over the second-gen Transit Connect: in June 2019 the US won its appeal, and judges ruled the van was cargo-only — ending Ford's workaround for the 'chicken tax.'
GM sold a rebadged Nissan NV200 as the Chevy City Express for four years, then killed it in 2018, citing weak sales and the fact that its parts weren't even compatible with GM's own parts catalog.
Its name is a pun: "S-Cargo" means "Small Cargo" but sounds just like escargot — French for snail, the shape the whole van was built to resemble.