family vehicle recommendations?

[smitche]

I won't own another ford, just not going to happen. and the excursion is just overkill in my opinion. We looked at suburban's when we bought the Exped, and my wife had a difficult time getting in and out of it and didn't care for the way it drove. We had a brand new odyssey ex-l back in 08 and I absolutely loved it. We were stupid to get rid of it, but at the time we only had the 3 kids, and my wife wanted something smaller, bought a crv and immediately wanted to slit my wrists... I am leaning back to an 08+ Odyssey ex-l res, but my wife really likes the Acadia and Enclave. The Volvo is also a contender, but I do worry about maintenance costs. Also, if I go with the volvo, v6 or v8?

[mrsleeve]

you have 2 options with a 7 seat capacity

Suburban or like mentioned above the only ford I would consider owning the diesel Excursion

The cross overs dont get too much better fuel economy than the full size while losing lots of capability, and your gonna be hard pressed fit 7 people even if 1/2 of them are smallish in there comfortably

[Herr Faust Schinken]

Lol.

Also comes pre equipped to burn to the ground...

Adding a little excitement to that family vacation lol


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[Holland]

Range rover, plenty of room and it looks cool and is capable to boot


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Lol.

Also comes pre equipped to burn to the ground...

[naplesE30]

odyssey all day. Drove my dads while visiting and while very vanilla it does all you could ask for.. and does it well. Ton of space, decent pickup, ok fuel consumption for a van etc.... but their not cheap espc with leather power doors etc. I was shocked when I looked at van prices. Routans are nice looking for a van but never driven one.

[Herr Faust Schinken]

Range rover, plenty of room and it looks cool and is capable to boot


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[Javier h]

What year was the expedition? Father in law has a 2006, the Eddie Edition, I believe. Within 2 months of ownership (the car was purchase new), the diff blew up. Lucky it was under warranty and the car has been bullet proof since. So 7 years without any issues but the car only has 89k on it.

My friend's odyssey's tranny blew up. She got a replacement from a salvage yard $1500) and a year later that blew up. Ended up buying one from the dealer at $4500 installed.

I'd be incline to a toyota/lexus SUV of some kind. Last year productions whenever possible.

Javier

[Holland]

Honda odessey. my mom and little siblings beat the shit out of the thing and it wont die. Toyota sienna also.

This, this, and this!

Seriously. Minivans are amazing at what they do. SUV's for family vehicles are horrible. I know people who put hundreds of thousands of miles on Odysseys, and I'm talking rally road miles. These vans take the abuse, and still drive amazing. Fuel economy and maintenance is stellar as well.

[SpecM]

+1 honda odyssey. not fun to drive, but a very practical and reliable people mover

[totheredline]

Honda odessey. my mom and little siblings beat the shit out of the thing and it wont die. Toyota sienna also.

[Cabriolet]

without question xc90. you couldnt pay me to drive any of the others

also Toyota Highlander

[smitche]

LOL at all of you!!!
e30 is not going anywhere, and neither is the wagon. Expedition will be sold off cheap or donated. You'll think I'm crazy, but we have our kids by choice. only the oldest was an accident (LOL), the other 4 we adopted out of the foster care system (2 separate adoptions, 2 separate families, etc...). Trust me, I'd love to give a couple back sometimes.

[Cabriolet]

sell 3 of the kids and keep the e30
put s54 into said e30
pocket the 7k for the 2 kid's educations

[PorscheH6]

Powerstroke Excursion.



Do it.

[squidmaster]

give some of your kids away. too many.