It feels tradition for an automaker to update a car, then immediately use its newness to hike the price. Sure, there’s a research and development cost in all of those updates, but for the average buyer, bigger price tags have big impacts over the course of a finance term. However, Chrysler is bucking that trend with the facelifted Pacifica. Instead of growing more expensive, many trims have shrunk their price tags over last year’s model. Some of them by a lot.
All Pacificas save for the base model (equivalent to last year’s Voyager) get a new schnoz, fresh tail lamps, and updated badging. What new thing does the base model get? Well, all trims now feature an adjustable-height power liftgate that can be set low enough to not hit the threshold of your garage door. The optional Safety Sphere package gains a blind-spot camera feed and parking sensor-activated camera feeds, and that’s about it. There’s been a slight juggling of colors and option availability, but otherwise, this is basically the same van as last year from the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 to the Stow-N-Go seats. However, that might be a good thing when you look at the price list beyond the base model’s carryover sticker of $43,990 including a $1,995 freight charge.
Let’s take one step up the range and look at the Select model, the least-expensive Pacifica to get the new styling. It gains power-sliding side doors and unlocks a whole bunch of available options, yet it’s $1,000 cheaper than the outgoing Pacifica Select at $46,540. Want all-wheel-drive with that? You’ll be saving $1,350 over the outgoing model with a new price of $48,535.
Next up, it’s the Limited trim, and here’s where things get really good. We’re talking a panoramic moonroof, hands-free actuation for the liftgate and power-sliding doors, wireless smartphone charging, leather seats, heated rear seats, and second-row window shades. Yet, it’s $1,710 cheaper than last year’s Pacifica Limited, with a new price of $49,990 including freight. That’s a lot of van for a sandwich under $50,000. Add all-wheel-drive, and the savings over the outgoing model grow to a noticeable $2,060, with the Limited AWD now retailing for $52,985. Plus, if you want the Safety Sphere package with its fancy cameras, that’s been discounted on the Limited trim by $395 and now costs $1,320.
Mind you, the discount does taper off on the fully-loaded Pinnacle trim, which comes complete with a 19-speaker Harman/Kardon sound system, an integrated vacuum, and a set of 20-inch alloy wheels. The front-wheel-drive Pinnacle trim still costs the same $56,905 as the outgoing model, while the $59,900 Pinnacle AWD is a mere $300 cheaper than the 2026 model.
Still, making the high-volume trims of the updated Pacifica noticeably cheaper is a step in the right direction, especially with how ridiculously expensive cars have grown in general. Chrysler’s van might not have the efficiency of the Toyota Sienna or the Kia Carnival Hybrid, but now there’s another reason to consider it beyond its useful Stow-N-Go seats.
Top graphic image: Chrysler
They had a perfectly handsome minivan. Why did they ruin it so badly?
I bought a 2019 grand caravan in december. man am i so glad i don’t have the pacifica. this thing is a beast and no computers screens , mandatory glass roof. i was expecting 2027 to be an all new van not just a new front bumper.
I can’t help but think “Transformers” every time I see that new grill.
Late to the party, but I just gotta say:
That green color is just SO SICK. It’s new and fresh, but old school and nostalgic. It’s sedate and calm, but it’s eye catching and different at the same time. It just looks so right draped over a minivan.
But if they really want to knock it out of the park, they need some wood paneling.
Stop laughing. I’m serious. Take me back to the 90s baby. Clinton had us in a surplus, you could gas up a car with 3 hours of minimum wage labor, car magazines had 80 plus pages, Yamaha was still building the Banshee, and out in the driveway ready to take me all over the world was a green Chrysler minivan with wood ass panels on the side.
Nostalgia is in.
Take us back, Chrysler.
There is no price cheap enough for me to buy a Chrysler product
Idk $3.50 sounds about right.
Even at tree fiddy I don’t want to be on a first name basis with the service adviser.
They sure Hyundaified the front end.
It looks awful. It’s a heaping helping of what is wrong with electric car styling, grafted onto an aging (but very practical) platform.
Chrysler seems to be trying desperately to do something, anything, whatever it takes to distract potential buyers from noticing they there is very little to choose from on their lots.
1) This is just Stellantis continuing to unwind the absurd MSRP inflation incurred under Tavares.
2) They realize the new styling is so ugly they literally need to pay you to take it off their hands.
I saw one the other day and looks better in person with the lighting bar illuminated. It was black so that probably helps with the weird angles
What did they do to my boy! The old front end was pretty perfect. How much does it cost to get the old front end back on there.
Base model still has the original fascia, so $41,495. https://www.chrysler.com/2027/pacifica/specs.lx.html
get it while we can, that will be a collectors item one day!
This is the way to do it. Keep a reasonably good design in production longer so when you’ve amortized the tooling costs you can compete on price.
Interesting images – I didn’t know Rockstar cared enough to add a Pacifica knockoff to GTA 6…
Well replacement prices for the lighting for that front faschia is going recoup all that money. Don’t get in an accident folks!
Wow that front end is…interesting. It’s like they took the previous Pacifica front end and added a Ninja Turtles costume.
But why does it look like one of those generic cars they use in advertisements?
The front fascia looks like it was cut off another car and glued to the front of this one, and they didn’t even bother to put a badge on it.
They’re going after the insurance commercial set designer demo.
Meh… still way too expensive in base form because the base model STILL has way too much crap as standard equipment.
A true base model shouldn’t have a bunch of unnecessary crap like power liftgate, power sliding doors, heated seats, heated steering wheel, multi-zone HVAC, etc.
Yep, that is how they make the big money. I miss the work van version.
Normally I say that people don’t want basic vehicles without all the extra features. Because people love that shit. But minivans are so full of luxury features like you mentioned. Nice to have but probably not a requirement for many people who just want a new, safe vehicle to transport their family. Even a truly base spec Pacifica would be considerably more refined, efficient, safe, and better to drive than the outgoing Caravan. And that was on the market until 2020!
A base model minivan really should have most of the features you listed.
My Sienna is a base 2015, and it came with all of those features minus the heated steering wheel and power lift gate. Those are 2 options I wish I could have added but you can’t really get a la carte options in Canada.
At the time, my Sienna came out to be cheaper than a Caravan with the same options.
They had a poverty spec Caravan at the time for about half the price of the Sienna, but it was so barren and miserable. It had a bench middle seat, manual doors, very few HVAC vents, steel wheels. It looked like a cargo van with seats bolted in.
I still think its cool that they offered new van ownership for what was an impossibly low price though.
I disagree. And that poverty-spec Caravan you mentioned sold in huge volumes and is the main reason why FCA had 50% of the minivan market.
So while you may care about those features, a lot of people would forego them for a substantially lower base price.
Moms care about those features. I can live without power sliding doors but I’m not the one trying to load groceries into a vehicle with two babies in my arms.
FCA’s market share was always dependent on fleet sales, but yes those vans did sell well.
Most marriages end in divorce, and a shitty minivan I’m sure doesn’t help that statistic.
But like I said before, I thought it was cool that they offered it while they did.
In my world view, the moms will have to either suck it up or open their wallets for a higher trim level instead of making the rest of us pay for shit we don’t want or need.
You missed Mother’s Day by 3 days with this comment Lol.
“I’m taking away your heated leather seats, moon roof, dual zone HVAC and other unnecessary shit. Happy Fucking Mothers Day!”
LOL
LOL
The outgoing was a smooth, decent design. This is a Kia ripoff as many have said. It makes me rescind my wish for a new 300. Not if this is the direction they want to take the “brand”.
The first iteration was still the best and most cohesive, it was supposed to have been Chrysler’s new corporate look, but the 200 and Pacifica were the only ones to ever carry it, since FCA and Stellantis stopped doing new models
Makes you long for the hood strake era, doesn’t it?
Lemme just go check Crossfire prices…
The jingle for the 90’s kids game plays in my head whenever someone mentions Crossfire.
I really love how the strong front end bodyline crease goes absolutely nowhere behind the font wheel arch. Makes the whole thing look so half-ass. God forbid we change side stampings at all over a 10 model year run.
Hey I don’t care for it either. But you know who’s fine with it? Minivan buyers.
That face says a lot of things to me, and “Chrysler” is not one of them. Lee and Walter P. would not approve.
It’s like they were competing to be even uglier than the Lexus Spindle and BMW Braver Face. They win by so much the other designs actually look pretty good in comparison.
We all know Stellantis MSRP’s are pure fantasy. They’ll be slashing 10% off for having a pulse, 5% for having credit under 650 and another 2.5% for complimenting the finance manager’s tie. But for the folks who learned at the Hank Hill School of Car Buying it’s a good thing.
Well, Kias are normally competitively priced.