<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: timekiller</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can't believe what I'm reading from you Sallys. MINIVANS ARE NOT COOL. They never have been-they never will be. It dosen't matter what they can tow, or where there seats stow to. You can try to justify why you have one, but no matter what kind of a pitch you make you still have a minivan at the end of the day.
Fellas, I'm not just talking sh** because I don't have one. About two years ago my wife was convinced by her sister that we needed a van as our second son was on the way. The day we bought that thing was probably the worst day of my life. Fortunately, last winter's severe weather exposed the van as the worthless piece of crap that it was for winter driving. My wife didn't like walking from the road when it couldn't go up our lane. She never had to do that with the Jeep she traded in for the van. Thank God she got tired of it and we got rid of it in March.
God, I hated that thing. </div></div>
Holy crap there minivan hater....I'm not trying to start a war, but for all the crap a family has to take for a child and a dog when the go out of town on a 3 hour road trip there is nothing more comfortable (IMO) than a van. We're not all crammed in there like in a car, have plenty of room to move around, the kid can see out the windows, I can lay the seat back and put my feet up and be layed out almost flat while the wife drives, and the dog can sit in the back and keep an eye on everything behind us. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif Maybe they aren't seen as "cool" but they are damn handy and now that we have one, if I had to choose between my truck and our van for the well being and convenience of getting my family places I'd sell my truck in a second before getting rid of the van. Even loading my son into the back seat of my quad cab (that I traded for the van) was much more of a chore than putting him into the van. After all....they're just vehicles and don't define you as a "manly" tough guy. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif