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2012 Dodge Grand Caravan Overview

Price Range: $20,995 to $29,995

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Vehicle Overview
Dodge overhauled its Grand Caravan minivan last year, giving it a vastly nicer interior, improvements to its Stow 'n Go seating and a new V-6 engine. With room for seven in three rows of seats, the Grand Caravan competes against the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna, and it's related to the Chrysler Town & Country.

New for 2012
The Grand Caravan gets a price drop for the 2012 model year with the introduction of an American Value Package model that starts at $3,000 less than last year's base passenger van. Sapphire Blue interior lighting is also new.

Exterior
You have to hand it to Dodge for making a minivan look aggressive. The 2012 Grand Caravan features Dodge's trademark crosshair grille, and the minivan's face gives it quite a bit of road presence. The Grand Caravan R/T sports a unique monochromatic exterior with its own 17-inch aluminum wheels. Other exterior features include:

  • Standard 16-inch steel wheels with covers; 16- or 17-inch aluminum rims optional, Standard dual manual-sliding side doors; power-sliding doors optional, Standard heated side mirrors
  • Optional fog lights
  • Optional power liftgate
  • Optional rain-sensing windshield wipers

Interior
The Grand Caravan's dashboard wouldn't be out of place in a luxury car. It features premium, low-gloss materials and mostly good fit-and-finish. Apart from a few things, like the airplane-style map lights that Dodge insists on using, the Grand Caravan has a top-rate minivan interior.

The standard Stow 'n Go second-row bucket seats have a one-touch folding feature. Lift a lever, and the seat articulates forward and into a bin in the floor. You do have to move the front seats forward quite a bit to give the middle seats the clearance to tumble into the floor, but when you do, the one-touch lever makes the operation simple. R/T minivans have black leather seats with red stitching. Other interior features include:

  • Standard cloth upholstery; leather optional, Standard dual-zone manual air conditioning; tri-zone automatic air conditioning optional, Standard cruise control
  • Standard CD stereo with MP3 jack, Standard tilt/telescoping steering wheel with audio controls, Standard 60/40-split folding third row with tailgate-seating mode
  • Optional heated front seats and steering wheel, Optional heated second-row seats
  • Optional remote start, Optional second-row power windows, Optional second- and third-row retractable sunshades
  • Optional touch-screen navigation system, Optional backseat entertainment system with 9-inch screen

Under the Hood
All trim levels of the 2012 Grand Caravan are powered by a 283-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-6 that teams with a six-speed automatic transmission. Mechanical features include: 

  • Runs on regular gas
  • Front-wheel drive, Sport suspension on R/T models

Safety

  • Standard all-disc antilock brakes, Standard electronic stability system
  • Standard side-impact airbags for the front seats, Standard side curtain airbags for all three rows
  • Standard active front head restraints, Optional power-adjustable pedals
  • Optional blind spot monitoring system, Optional rear cross path detection system, Optional rear parking sensors, Optional backup camera

*Overview courtesy of Cars.com

2012 Dodge Grand Caravan

2012 Dodge Grand Caravan

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Secret 1
Consumer Incentives

Zero percent financing, employee discount, cash back, out-the-door price tags...

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Secret 2
Finance & Insurance

Most state franchise laws prohibit manufacturers from selling cars directly to the public, so the dealer will be your middleman. But in terms of financing and insurance, you can choose a bank or the dealer directly.

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Secret 3
Additional Costs

Destination charges, taxes, license and title fees, advertising fees... When going to a dealership, you must ask for an explanation of any fee you don't understand. But you need to choose your battles wisely. Your local car dealer may have taken a loss or slim profit along the way, and your fighting over something like a doc fee when the deal is nearly wrapped up may be counterproductive.

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Secret 4
Trade-in Value

If you currently own a car, it probably represents profit. The question is, whose profit will it be?

With few exceptions, you'll get the most money for your used car by selling it privately. That's because dealers pay wholesale prices — not retail prices — for used cars, and they sell them at retail.

Your current car's value can be used to lower the price on your new car. However, most people underestimate their used car's value when going to a dealership. How can you maximize your value?

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Secret 5
Dealer Holdback

The car manufacturer holds back a fraction of the price of all vehicles the dealership sells. Then, it returns the money to the dealership, usually on a quarterly basis.

Dealer holdback began its life as a safety net that ensured the manufacturers would have a security deposit of sorts if a dealership missed payments, and the dealerships would have money on hand to cover overhead costs when the holdback was returned.

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Secret 6
Dealer Incentives

Unlike consumer incentives, dealer incentives are factory-to-dealer incentives that reduce the dealer's true cost to buy the vehicle from the factory to below invoice.

Manufacturers offer these incentives on a regional basis to generate sales on specific models. These incentives are sometimes referred to as "spiffs," and they can touch off competition among dealers to move slower-selling stock.

For instance, a dealer incentive may kick in when a certain sales target is reached, with each subsequent sale resulting in a higher factory-to-dealer rebate. How can you benefit from that?

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