Ford S-Max, Galaxy

Ford S-Max, Galaxy covers two large family MPVs, built for carrying people first and luggage second. By our assessment, the strength of this pair is the same old Ford logic: sensible road manners, usable seating and the kind of cabin layout people choose when a regular saloon is simply too small. The honest downside is that this is a big, practical shape with the usual costs in parking ease, fuel appetite and sheer bulk, especially beside smaller crossovers. In practice these are the sort of vehicles that matter most when the seats are full and the boot has to work hard, not when someone wants a playful drive. They sit in the family-hauler world rather than the fashionable SUV world, and that makes them less trendy but often more honest about space. The name itself points to a range, not a single sharply defined model, and that broadness is part of the appeal.