Laugh at the Mini-Van...make fun of it...whatever but...bikes in and out in seconds...dogs love it...kids love it...totally practical...I hope to always have one...if I ever hit the big time I'll have a to die for car but a Min-Van for all the great uses it has. Now it is awesome for taking my son's stuff to college and back once a year...their uses never end. Until my company gave me one I thought you had to be brain dead to have one...after one day (really one day)I knew why they had become so popular so quickly.