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2022 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Pinnacle

Elegance: Minivan

Miles pushed: 592

CG Document Card
Room and Convenience	A
Energy and Efficiency	A-
Have compatibility and End	A
Gas Financial system	A
Price	B
Document-card grades are derived from a consensus of test-driver critiques. All grades are as opposed to different cars in the similar magnificence. Price grade is for explicit trim stage evaluated, and would possibly not replicate Shopper Information’s impressions of all the fashion lineup.
Large & Tall Convenience
Large Man	A
Tall Man	A
Large & Tall convenience rankings are for entrance seats solely. “Large” score in keeping with male tester weighing roughly 350 kilos, “Tall” score in keeping with 6’6″-tall male tester.
Drivetrain
Engine Specifications	260-hp 3.6-liter
Engine Sort	V6 plug-in hybrid
Transmission	CVT-automatic
Force Wheels	AWD

Actual-world gas economic system: 59.8 mpg

Riding combine: 75% town, 25% freeway

EPA-estimated gas economic system: 82 MPGe/30 mpg (town/freeway blended)

Gas kind: Common gas really helpful

Base worth: $58,050 (now not together with $1595 vacation spot rate)

Choices: Particular paint ($495), folding-mirror delete (-$73)

Value as examined: $60,067

Fast Hits

The good: Plug-in hybrid potency, capacity of all-wheel pressure; very good array of family-friendly comfort options

The nice: Spacious cabin with upscale trimmings; delightful highway manners, particularly quiet at freeway velocity

The now not so excellent: No Stow ‘n Cross seating in hybrid, luxury-vehicle pricing

CG Says:

Customers can be laborious pressed to discover a automobile class extra aggressive than the minivan section. There are simply 5 minivan choices for 2022, and they all are price a glance. However there is only one van we awarded Highest Purchase standing for ’22, and that’s the Chrysler Pacifica.

Of the 5 minivans to be had this yr, solely two, the Pacifica and Toyota Sienna, are presented as hybrids. And, just one, the Pacifica, is obtainable as a plug-in hybrid. Apparently, the Sienna is to be had solely as a hybrid, whilst the Pacifica can be had with a standard V6 engine. Extra on that during a second.

For 2022, Pacifica good points an stepped forward cabin air-filtration machine and to be had Amazon Fireplace TV. Amazon Fireplace permits passengers to connect with streaming services and products to look at displays by means of the to be had rear-seat leisure programs.

We evaluated a Pacifica Hybrid in top-tier Pinnacle trim. New for 2021, the Pinnacle is so smartly supplied that the one extra-cost choices are top class paint colours and dealer-installed equipment. Nearly anything else that may be packaged in a Pacifica comes same old at the Pinnacle.

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Inside of Pacifica, infotainment is relayed through the maker’s Uconnect 5 machine with wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone integration (being able to attach two telephones concurrently), Amazon Alexa voice regulate, Uconnect Marketplace, and extra, plus a ten.1-inch touchscreen.

The place the Pinnacle reaches its top is within. Caramel-colored Nappa-leather seats with a quilted floor trend welcome as much as seven passengers. Center-row captain’s chairs are complemented with matching throw pillows that serve as as lumbar helps. The seats’ upscale glance can be wasted in the event that they weren’t comfy, which they’re—even within the 3rd row—regardless that the peak of the center seats struck this tester as a tiny bit low. Different cabin main points of the brand new fashion are Caramel distinction sewing on darkish surfaces just like the sprint pad, leather-wrapped guidance wheel, and console; satin-chrome accents; woodgrain bezels across the software cluster and door releases; Berber carpet; and suede headliner.

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The Pinnacle’s Built-in Extremely Console is distinct from the front-seat garage devices discovered on different Pacificas. In conjunction with a padded-top lined bin between the seats, there’s an open-side area at ground stage that’s large enough to carry a handbag. In the back of the lid for the central bin is a slot that middle-row occupants can use, and a drawer with tray and two cup holders slides out of the again of the console at ground stage.

Intensive same old apparatus discovered within the Pinnacle comprises heated and ventilated 8-way power-adjustable entrance seats, heated guidance wheel and second-row seats, wi-fi charging pad within the console, navigation, Wi-Fi hotspot, 18-speaker Harman Kardon sound machine, SiriusXM satellite tv for pc radio and attached services and products, triple-pane panoramic sunroof, integral “Stow ’n Vac” vacuum cleaner, second-row streaming leisure machine with displays constructed into the entrance seats, and brand-new “FamCam.” A faucet at the touchscreen turns on an inner wide-angle overhead digital camera that permits front-seat occupants to peer what’s going on within the rows in the back of them—at hand for adjudicating territorial disputes of the “he helps to keep touching me” selection.

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External options are 20-inch polished alloy wheels with gray-painted wallet, LED projector headlamps, hands-free liftgate and sliding facet doorways, and a platinum-chrome “Stow ’n Position” roof rack. Protection/driver-assistance applied sciences run to parallel and perpendicular parking help, surround-view digital camera, adaptive cruise regulate with stop-and-go serve as, blind-spot and rear cross-traffic detection, lane-departure caution, and forward-collision caution with pedestrian/bike owner emergency braking.

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Naturally, there may be quite a lot of room for passengers and load. Not like different non-hybrid Pacificas, the Pinnacle lacks the “Stow ‘n Cross” second-row seats that fold into the ground, however its captain’s chairs have the “Simple Tilt” characteristic that clears get admission to to the 3rd row. (Passage between the seats is simple, too.) Center seats observe fore and aft, which is able to open up sufficient legroom for a few adults to contentedly occupy the 3rd row. Within the Pinnacle, an influence help will get the 60/40-split rear seats to jackknife and drop all the way down to shape a capacious flat-floored shipment space. Regardless that infotainment purposes can also be labored somewhat immediately during the touchscreen at the new rig, exterior quantity and tuning dials are at hand for radio operation, whilst exterior buttons and a dial for fan velocity allow hands-on operation of the dual-zone local weather machine.

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At the driving-dynamics entrance, all Pacifica fashions are to be had with totally automated all-wheel pressure—certainly, it’s same old on penultimate Restricted and the most effective Pinnacle fashions. We discovered the hybrid machine to be in large part unobtrusive, regardless that continual supply is relatively much less clean and no more linear than present in non-hybrid programs.

The hybrid powertrain merges the usual Pacifica’s 3.6-liter V6 with electrical help and a CVT automated transmission. A 16-kWh battery supplies a promised 32-miles of electric-only differ, and then Pacifica operates like a standard hybrid. The machine supplies excellent continual and very good economic system, supplied operators are diligent about plugging in. In delicate climate we loved electric-only differ of as a lot of 40 miles, and not lower than 36.

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Over more or less 600 miles, plugging-in when handy to take action, we averaged nearly 60 mpg. Maximum shoppers must be capable of perform on electrical energy by myself right through a standard week of commuting and native using, and nonetheless revel in extended-range using when the chance arises.

At simply over $60,000, the Pacifica Hybrid Pinnacle doesn’t come reasonable. Regardless that pricey for a minivan, our lavishly appointed Pinnacle is absolute best regarded as a luxurious automobile, as which, its worth turns out extra affordable. For extra charge delicate minivan intenders, a decrease trim stage Pacifica can he had for far much less cash.

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