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One day minivans will be cool again
Meh. We test drove one but I despised the trunk. You’re just haphazardly piling stuff on top of each other. I was shocked because I thought that was the selling point that it has the same trunk space as a suburban. It does but it’s way more annoying and awkward.
Dave Grohl drives a minivan. That’s all the confirmation bias I need if the time comes.
I think it’s already occurring. One of my friends was recently talking about getting a new vehicle but noted she didn’t want some thing everyone else had. She said she didn’t want some sort of mommy mobile. She was thinking about getting the RAV4. But because of previous conversations she’s had with me, she noticed when she went on a girls trip that all of her mom friends showed up with the mommy mover CUV.
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Minivans are damn near the size of half ton trucks…
They’re an inch narrower and 6 inches shorter is all, while weighing damn near as much as your average F-150. Only real advantage is a truck is 2’ longer.
A minivan has a lower hood, ride height, and better visibility. Modern pickups are shaped like a brick and weigh hundreds of pounds more, if not over a thousand in quite a few comparisons.
Get hit by a van and you roll over the hood. Get hit by a pickup and you’re immediately brought up to the speed of the truck, flat against the grill, which is quite often lethal.
Hopefully close. I rented a minivan 2 years ago to help a friend move. It was the comfiest ride ever and last time I rode a van it was cluttered but the minivan I rented you could literally hide all seats under the floor and it looked like a cargo area or space for a bed. Really awesome and good mpg, not a thrilling drive but damn if it was a comfy drive.