Associated in the minds of some demographers with baby boomers and soccer moms, minivans are a type of automotive vehicle that largely replaced the family station wagon in the 1980s and 1990s as a "kid hauler." The most popular versions of the boxy vehicles, which were manufactured by Chrysler Corporation and introduced by its media-savvy chairman Lee Iacocca, were even credited with saving Chrysler from automotive extinction. Doron P. Levin suggested the connection between Chrysler's development of the minivan and its economic health and noted, "Rarely had a company so close to bankruptcy sprung back to health with the vigor of Chrysler." Brock Yates went even further when he described minivans as "the true salvation of the Chrysler product line" and argued that the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, which were introduced in 1983, "created an entire new market category for Chrysler and the automobile industry as a whole...