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The average American automobile now weighs over 2 tonnes and takes up almost 5 square meters of space.
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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yeah I have a minivan and there was this time my father in law needed to move a fridge that would not fit in his truck without the gate down and his sons suv with the hatch closed. fit in the minivan though and with better gas mileage.
I'll never understand why minivans became so uncool when SUVs were able to rise. Now you could make the argument of the soccer mom and mom stereotype of the minivan making it deeply uncool to people who didn't just want to be known as parents. But then that same stereotype is tied to SUVs.
Many van seat people way more comfortably. The sliding door makes getting into the back seat way more practical. The visibility from out the windows is nice. And on the ones where you can either take out or fully stow the seats, you essentially have the capacity of a truck. They aren't the ideal solution for everyone's lifestyle, but like, if you need a big vehicle to haul the kids around and to, you know, bring stuff back from the store that are big, well, a minivan will do the job better.
their one thing they do not do well is offroad. they have low clearance and not super great turn radius. no one living in a city or suburb hough by and large needs that capability in the slightest.
Yeah, minivans are underrated. I would get a minivan or a Econoline van before I would buy one of the new trucks. It'd be a hell of a lot cheaper anyways. I can't believe how much money people are spending on trucks, half of them are like 1/4 - 1/3 of the cost of a decent home.
all vehicles are going up. I swear I saw the aptera, which is an eclosed motorcycle, now expecting to be the price of a new minivan from years ago. Originally they were targeting like 15k.