Chrysler Pacifica, Voyager

Chrysler Pacifica, Voyager is for buyers who want a family minivan with sliding doors, three rows and a cabin built around people moving around each other. By our assessment, its best quality is space management: Chrysler knows how to make a van feel genuinely useful for passengers, bags and child seats without making the layout feel fussy. The compromise is the usual minivan one — size, a fairly ordinary driving feel, and styling that never tries very hard to win the style contest. In practice that means easy entry, a low load floor and the kind of seating arrangement that makes long errands less painful. Against SUVs, it gives up image and some ground clearance, but it usually gives more honest interior room. The name covers more than one closely related model, so the real point is not flash but the daily work of moving a lot of people and things together.