Few have any affection for the Volkswagen Routan, a sad late-2000s re-badge of the Dodge Grand Caravan minivan. Featuring the mildest of facelifts (think lighting, grille, dash, and second row seats), ...

Now, everyone who would pay $40,000 or $50,000 or more for one, raise your hands. Not too many hands out there... Volkswagen was one of the first automakers to bring a concept vehicle to production ...

Even by the dire standards of the current market, the new VW Routan minivan appears to be nailed to the showroom floor. A warmed-over version of the Chrysler Town & Country/Dodge Caravan, the Routan ...

It's still early but very happy with the Routan. If there is anything I wish was better it would be the Hard drive has been less user friendly then an ipod plugged in and I have to rerip disks to it.

Behind the Volkswagen badge on the front of the Routan minivan, everything else is pretty much standard Dodge Caravan/Chrysler Town & Country equipment. So why buy the VW? The German automaker hopes ...

It's easy enough to lambaste the Routan for what it's not -- a "true" Volkswagen -- but let's instead focus on what it is: a competent minivan. Although some competitors pack their vans with ...

The badges on the front and back say “Volkswagen,” but the minivan I tested this past week drove and felt quite like a Chrysler Town & Country or Dodge Grand Caravan. Oh, wait a minute — that's ...

It was the early 2000s, and as Americans increasingly embraced large crossovers and SUVs, Volkswagen's U.S. dealers clamored for an affordable seven-passenger vehicle to keep Jetta, Golf and Beetle ...