The 2017 Chrysler Town & Country minivan will be offered with a host of new gadgets intended to wow potential shoppers when it goes on sale next year.
According to AutoNews and their deep dive into Chrysler’s future products, the 2017 Town & Country will boast features such as USB ports in all three rows and other innovations to inject new life into the company’s minivan sales.
The new Town & Country was already confirmed to add a new plug-in hybrid variant, but all-wheel drive will now be back on the options list for the first time since 2004 thanks to the PHEV model. Currently, the Toyota Sienna is the only minivan on sale to boast AWD. Front-wheel drive models will get the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6, but likely the updated version that’s just been announced for the 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee, with modest efficiency gains and a stop-start system. Expect the 9-speed automatic to make its way in here, too.
While waving your foot around to open the tailgate is nothing new, the Town & Country is expected to get a new feature called Open ‘n Go to allow someone to open the sliding side doors with the wave of a foot. Chrysler will also take a page from the Honda Odyssey playbook and offer their own vacuum cleaner in their minivan, according to Automotive News.
Spy shots over the last year or so have given us a pretty good idea the 2017 Town & Country will look like the 2012 Chrysler 700C Concept. But we’ll know more about it when the car is launched in the coming months, likely in January at the Detroit Auto Show for an on-sale date next summer.
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