2020 Chrysler Voyager's Price Undercuts Today's Pacifica, but Only Just

Steph Willems
by Steph Willems

It’ll be a different story when the 2020 model year arrives at Chrysler, at which point a large pricing gap will open up between the brand’s Pacifica minivan and the newly-arrived Voyager. The Voyager name, as you may recall, has been dusted off in order to serve as a stepping stone to the Pacifica.

It’s the same vehicle, to be sure, but one which replaces the former Pacifica L and LX at the bottom of the minivan totem pole. Here’s how the pricing breaks down between the two family-friendly siblings.

Thanks to order guides seen by Cars Direct, we now know that the cheapest Pacifica available for 2020 — the Touring model — starts at $34,990 after destination, or the same price as this year’s Touring Plus. The 2020 Pacifica Touring L begins at $38,240, followed by loftier prices for the Touring L Plus, Limited, and Hybrid offerings. Give up on your dreams of a bargain basement Voyager hybrid right now, as well as your hopes for finding automatic emergency braking anywhere in this stripped-down model.

From the lowliest Pacifica to the lowliest Voyager is a journey of $6,260. That base Voyager L, which may soon become a replacement for the the entry-level Dodge Grand Caravan SE (to say nothing of the rest of the GC line), carries a price tag of $28,480 after destination. If you’re curious, that’s a drop of $250 from 2019’s Pacifica L.

Three Voyager trims will be on offer: L, LX, and the fleet-only LXi. Moving up to the LX will set a thrifty buyer back $31,290 after destination, which happens to be — you guessed it — $250 less than a 2019 Pacifica LX.

It also happens to be $245 less than a 2019 Grand Caravan SE (keeping in mind that there’s cash on the hood of the GC almost everywhere; the same goes for the entry-level Pacificas, and to a greater degree). The GC’s fate, at this point, is unclear, but it’s not looking good for the Child of Iacocca.

Will splitting the Pacifica into two distinctive model lines change the trajectory of Chrysler’s minivan fortunes? That also remains to be seen, though this writer suspects you’ve already arrived at a conclusion of your own. Through the first half of 2019, Pacifica sales shrunk 23 percent, followed not far behind by the GC’s 17 percent sales drop.

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  • PrincipalDan PrincipalDan on Aug 07, 2019

    Still going to be interesting to see how used prices on say a Voyager LXi compares to a similar trim Pacifica that has all of the Voyager's features plus emergency braking and adaptive cruise. Those LXis will be thick on the ground at Carmax by 2022 or so.

  • Sckid213 Sckid213 on Aug 07, 2019

    I love how Chrysler still pulls this "different nameplates on the same vehicle" stuff. It's so...retro. As a kid who grew up mostly in the '90s, I was baffled when the LH cars came out and the LHS and New Yorker were the exact same vehicle. I was familiar with badge engineering between BRANDS (e.g., Caravan vs. Voyager), but not within the same INDIVIDUAL MODEL. There was barely an Internet back then, so it took some research to figure out such "single-model badge engineering" used to be more common in the past. It's the throwback 2020's at FCA!

  • Mikey My late wife loved Mustangs ..We alway rented one while travelling . GM blood vetoed me purchasing one . 3 years after retirement bought an 08 rag top, followed by a 15 EB Hard top, In 18 i bought a low low mileage 05 GT rag with a stick.. The car had not been properly stored. That led to rodent issues !! Electrical nightmare. Lots of bucks !! The stick wasn't kind to my aging knees.. The 05 went to a long term dedicated Mustang guy. He loves it .. Today my garage tenant is a sweet 19 Camaro RS rag 6yl Auto. I just might take it out of hibernation this weekend. The Mustang will always hold a place in my heart.. Kudos to Ford for keeping it alive . I refuse to refer to the fake one by that storied name .
  • Ajla On the Mach-E, I still don't like it but my understanding is that it helps allow Ford to continue offering a V8 in the Mustang and F-150. Considering Dodge and Ram jumped off a cliff into 6-cylinder land there's probably some credibility to that story.
  • Ajla If I was Ford I would just troll Stellantis at all times.
  • Ronin It's one thing to stay tried and true to loyal past customers; you'll ensure a stream of revenue from your installed base- maybe every several years or so.It's another to attract net-new customers, who are dazzled by so many other attractive offerings that have more cargo capacity than that high-floored 4-Runner bed, and are not so scrunched in scrunchy front seats.Like with the FJ Cruiser: don't bother to update it, thereby saving money while explaining customers like it that way, all the way into oblivion. Not recognizing some customers like to actually have right rear visibility in their SUVs.
  • MaintenanceCosts It's not a Benz or a Jag / it's a 5-0 with a rag /And I don't wanna brag / but I could never be stag
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