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I always told my wife that I'd never own a van. Being married for 14+ years, I've been saying this for a long time. 3 years ago we went from a civic to a small SUV, but leg room was limited in front of the kid (meaning I always drove) and storage wasn't that great. Now we're expecting our second kid making both seats in the front of the SUV have less than optimal leg room.
A while ago the SUV was rear ended, and when it was finally getting fixed (6 months later) the insurance company gave my wife a rental, a grand caravan. We had that rental for 1 week, and she absolutely loved the practicality of it. I made fun for a couple of days until I started to notice how easy it was to buckle the little man in, how improved the leg room was, and how much storage there was available. Wow.
I swallowed my pride a little bit and told her she could get whatever kind of vehicle she wanted, and I would fully support (and fund) the purchase. I have a great wife and could tell she still wanted me to be happy so we still test drove a few SUV's, but aside from an "XL" or expedition type SUV, we weren't improving a whole lot over the small compact SUV we already had. She decided a MV would be best, and I agreed. I jokingly tell her I still have my truck and Mustang to come home to in case I lose my man card on a minivan ride. :wink2:
We test drove some odysseys and grand caravans and really like the odysseys. I pushed the pacifica aside because it was too new to get a good deal on. The day we were walking out the door to buy a GC (odysseys were not worth what people wanted) a good friend of mine told me about a dealer (2.5 hrs away) that had a decent deal on a pacifica. We decided to go test drive and came home with it.
I can not believe how smooth it drives and all the technology packed into it, although it's only a touring L, it's pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to improving our Pacifica like I try to do to our other vehicles. Happy Touring everyone!
A while ago the SUV was rear ended, and when it was finally getting fixed (6 months later) the insurance company gave my wife a rental, a grand caravan. We had that rental for 1 week, and she absolutely loved the practicality of it. I made fun for a couple of days until I started to notice how easy it was to buckle the little man in, how improved the leg room was, and how much storage there was available. Wow.
I swallowed my pride a little bit and told her she could get whatever kind of vehicle she wanted, and I would fully support (and fund) the purchase. I have a great wife and could tell she still wanted me to be happy so we still test drove a few SUV's, but aside from an "XL" or expedition type SUV, we weren't improving a whole lot over the small compact SUV we already had. She decided a MV would be best, and I agreed. I jokingly tell her I still have my truck and Mustang to come home to in case I lose my man card on a minivan ride. :wink2:
We test drove some odysseys and grand caravans and really like the odysseys. I pushed the pacifica aside because it was too new to get a good deal on. The day we were walking out the door to buy a GC (odysseys were not worth what people wanted) a good friend of mine told me about a dealer (2.5 hrs away) that had a decent deal on a pacifica. We decided to go test drive and came home with it.
I can not believe how smooth it drives and all the technology packed into it, although it's only a touring L, it's pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to improving our Pacifica like I try to do to our other vehicles. Happy Touring everyone!
