family vehicle recommendations?

[nando]

two E30 4-doors.

:p

I don't know a ton about Vans but we had a Dodge van as a rental (whatever their new model was). My god what a piece of shit..

[smitche]

yeah, too small. 5 speed would be fun, but don't really care about it.

[canadiankid]

If you get a mazda 5 you can still have a 5 speed if thats your thing. Might be a tad small though.

[smitche]

well, last night the old family expedition blew a headgasket, and to me, it's not worth fixing (quite frankly, i hate the stupid thing). Anybody have a good recommendation for a new family vehicle? My budget is $17k, needs to seat at least 7 (we have 5 kids when my oldest comes home from school and the other 4 are in car seat/boosters), would like more cargo room than the expedition had (hated that thing), must have leather, must have power gate (my wife has severe rheumatoid). If it's a van (completely open to that), it must have power sliding doors. Currently looking at Acadia's, Enclave's, XC90's, Odyssey's, and Sienna's... anything I'm missing? Anything I should watch out for in the above vehicles?