Chrysler Town & Country Features

We’ve been check­ing out a Chrysler Town & Coun­try this past week–a “fam­ily of 5″ vehi­cle search of sorts! As I’ve been dri­ving it around, we’ve dis­cov­ered & learned about a whole bunch of var­i­ous fea­tures included in this van! It’s cer­tainly WAY more “lux­ury” than we’re used to around our house!

So, today, I’m shar­ing some of those key fea­tures –some of which we learned about when the car was dropped off to us, some are really obvi­ous, and some we’ve just stum­bled upon through using the vehi­cle this week:

Key­less enter ’n go: The per­son­al­ized key fob enables pas­sive vehi­cle entry. With the fob in a pocket or purse, doors auto­mat­i­cally unlock as you
approach the vehi­cle. This avail­able sys­tem allows quick access with­out fum­bling for the key. In addi­tion, there is a remote start option on the fob.

Remote key­less entry. The power slid­ing doors and power lift­gate allow you to slide open rear doors and open the lift­gate, all with the touch of
just a cou­ple of but­tons on the key fob, over­head con­sole, or inside the cabin.

Child Pro­tec­tion Rear Door Locks . A small lever on the front edge of the slid­ing door dis­ables the rear doors’ inside release han­dles.

Power Adjustable Ped­als. Adjustable brake and accel­er­a­tor ped­als allow you to cus­tomize the posi­tion, enabling the dri­ver to main­tain a
com­fort­able dis­tance from the steer­ing wheel. (This is a great fea­ture when you have one dri­ver like me who is only 5’3″ and another dri­ver who is 6’4″ )

Door Alert. This selec­table fea­ture auto­mat­i­cally flashes sig­nal lights, indi­cat­ing which slid­ing door is open.

Flex Fuel capa­ble. The flex fuel engine is capa­ble of allow­ing the use of either gaso­line or ethanol (E85) fuel.

Sup­ple­men­tal side-curtain air bags. These air bags extend pro­tec­tion to all out­board front– and rear-seat pas­sen­gers, includ­ing third-row out­board pas­sen­gers. Upon side impact, the sys­tem deploys the spe­cific side air bag and cur­tain required for occu­pant protection.

Advanced mul­ti­stage front air bags.This fea­ture reg­u­lates the amount of force nec­es­sary for the front occu­pants by impact sever­ity, includ­ing low-risk
deployment.

Front-seat mounted side air bags. Addi­tional air bags are inte­grated into the front seats, so no mat­ter where the seats are posi­tioned, the air bags deploy con­sis­tently with dri­ver and front-passenger seat positions.

PARKVIEW ® Rear back-up cam­era. This stan­dard sys­tem dis­plays an visual ref­er­ence through your Ucon­nect® Media Cen­ter screen of what is behind your vehi­cle when dri­ving in reverse. It includes on-screen sta­tic guide­lines to help ori­en­tate the dri­ver while back­ing up. (I love this fea­ture too!!)

Nav­i­ga­tion. Pro­vides turn-by-turn voice guid­ance and visual dis­play. It can also locate nearby restau­rants, shop­ping, hos­pi­tals, or points of local inter­est through an exclu­sive Garmin® GPS sys­tem. It fea­tures Garmin’s intu­itive user inter­face, bring­ing the Garmin hand­held expe­ri­ence to a fac­tory in-dash radio.

Enter­tain­ment. Man­age all of your media with mul­ti­ple ways to access audio (includ­ing Blue­tooth® stream­ing audio), iPod® con­trol with Voice Com­mand, DVD player, audio jack, SD card slot, com­pat­i­ble mul­ti­me­dia devices, and gam­ing consoles.

Stan­dard rear DVD sys­tem. With two avail­able nine-inch DVD screens that flip down from the over­head con­sole, game-console inputs, and two avail­able DVD play­ers, the kids don’t have to set­tle on just one thing to watch. The video sys­tem can be oper­ated from either the rear-seat enter­tain­ment unit or the radio head unit. The self-contained enter­tain­ment sys­tem is located in the over­head rail, which also con­tains stor­age for the DVD wire­less remote and wire­less head­phones. LED Blue Sap­phire halo light­ing glows from the head­liner rail, pro­vid­ing a relax­ing envi­ron­ment for passengers.

Seri­ously, the kids have been SO spoiled by hav­ing that kind of enter­tain­ment sys­tem this past week! And, I’ve been get­ting rather spoiled too with some of these fea­tures listed above! We have the car just one more day, then it’s time to say good­bye for now. So, stay tuned for our offi­cial review of the Town & Coun­try in the days to come –shar­ing all of our favorite things (and a few things that we wish could be a bit dif­fer­ent)! In the mean­time, you can check out more from Chrysler on Face­book and Twit­ter: @ChryslerAutos.

Dis­clo­sure: I was given a Town & Coun­try by Chrysler to drive for one week for the pur­pose of review. This post is part of a Chrysler spon­sor­ship. All opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are my own.