A full size van is a truck characterized by a very short hood, tall body, heavy payload capacity or passenger capacity from 7 to 15 passengers. They largely replaced the compact vans which were introduced in the early 1960s to compete with the Volkswagen bus, based on compact car components. Dodge A100 A compact van is a type of van popular in the United States during the early 1960s. ...

The first full size van was the 1969 Ford Econoline, which used components from the F-series pickups. General Motors and Dodge would follow suit with designs with the engines placed even farther forward, and succeeding generations of the Econoline would also introduce longer hoods. The Ford E-Series, also known as the Econoline, is a line of full-size vans and truck chassis from Ford Motor Company. ...