This is a book about people, leadership, and the process of creating and reinventing a hit car.

In the early 1970s, Chrysler started working on a "magic wagon" — a completely new passenger van that would fit into a normal garage. It was a daring project for a company that was strapped for cash.

This book taps the people who created the minivans, with previously unpublished photos of the original clay models. Ten years before the first minivan left the assembly line, engineers, planners, and designers argued over alternatives; then they checked over every decision a decade later as they reinvented their hit car, in the face of intense competition.

This book dives into the reasons behind their decisions, and some of the ways minivans could have been very different; it also covers electric and CNG minivans, engines and transmissions, concept cars, and the assembly plants. Generously illustrated with full-color design studies and photos of the final product.