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- This past weekend,

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I took a trip out to a place
no one should really go.

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Central Ohio.

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But I did so not by plane, not by train,

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but by automobile. A
Chrysler Pacifica hybrid.

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And that car sold me on minivans.

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I had initially thought,
for a 1,000 mile round trip

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why don't I get a comfortable SUV?

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I'll get a Porsche Cayenne
or something like that.

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But the more I thought about
it, the more I realized

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a minivan is the proper vehicle for

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the great American road trip.

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A minivan isn't pretending to be anything.

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So many SUVs and crossovers
now have long hoods and

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short rear decks, the
chopped coupe roofline,

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and all of this intrudes
on passenger space.

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These cars want to be performance coupes.

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They want to be sports
cars, but they aren't.

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A van doesn't pretend,
and it's better for it.

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A short hood, a long rear tail means

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that there's ample room
for a six foot tall person

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to sit in every row of seating.

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I could comfortably stretch out in

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the third row of this van.

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Because of a Van's length and boxiness,

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it has a long wheel base
which gives it stability,

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smoothness on long highway drives.

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It's comfortable, it
glides, and it is quiet.

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You don't get any of those in these

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sports activity vehicles.

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That's just a dig at BMW.
That's what they call them.

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I spent a 1,000 miles in
the Chrysler Pacifica,

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but you know what?

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I would've spent a thousand hours.

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I would've spent 10,000
because the Chrysler Pacifica

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and minivans as a whole,
are the proper, comfortable,

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quiet, ideal vehicle for the
great American road trip.

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