weird find

We had a 98 Plymouth Voyager "expresso" van. Great little rig, bought it from an old couple,40 some thousand kms, we were the second owners. It was our road trip rig and my wife drove it 10 miles return to work each day. At 83 thousand kms with absolutely no warning the transmission went kapow, I mean blew apart, some pin or something was faulty, I had been warned but I did not listen. We got it fixed and immediately traded it in on a 2005 (i think) Dodge xs2, I had it for a couple of months, got rid of it, it was an automatic trans, I drove it to Calgary about an 800 mile round trip and got 23 miles to the gallon...what?? got not much help from the Chrysler dealers on either issue.
Might be just my bad luck and I do love my OLD mopars but when it comes time to buy again a Chrysler product will not be on the list.