EAW: E-150 vs. Swagger Wagon
Rachel Drummond is the Swagger Wagon mom, and I think she’s as cute as the proverbial button. Sorry. I really do. Her Sienna SE, on the other hand, doesn’t do much for me. It’s expensive, it’s not all...
View ArticleNow You Don’t Have To Yell At Your Kids Anymore
Toyota’s updated Sienna isn’t going to set any hearts ablaze -or convince TTAC readers of its supremacy vis a vis our beloved Chrysler minivans – but it does have one feature so compelling that I am...
View ArticleCain’s Segments July 2014: Minivans
The Toyota Sienna was America’s best-selling minivan during the month of July 2014, although Chrysler’s minivan duo combined to own a far greater portion of the market. 44.8% of all July minivan sales...
View ArticleCapsule Review: 2015 Toyota Sienna AWD
America’s minivan segment generated only 3.4% of the U.S. auto industry’s new vehicle volume in 2014, down from 5.2% in 2007. Why do automakers bother? Consider Toyota as an example. Sienna sales in...
View ArticleU.S. Minivan Sales – March 2015 YTD – Cain’s Segments
Minivans accounted for only 2.7% of the U.S. auto industry’s new vehicle volume in March 2015, a sharp drop from the 3.5% achieved by the category one year earlier. First-quarter sales of minivans in...
View ArticleChart Of The Day: Honda Odyssey Puts An End To Toyota Sienna’s Best Seller...
Not since January of last year had the Honda Odyssey finished a month as America’s top-selling minivan. Indeed, not since October of last year had the Toyota Sienna not been America’s best-selling...
View ArticlePiston Slap: To Love A Sienna Like No Other?
TTAC Commentator MatadorX writes: Sajeev, I am hoping you and your readership can give me some guidance as to how far to take a vehicle overhaul: mild insanity or full on broke? The vehicle in question...
View ArticleTTAC Consumer Clinic: Minivans And The 2017 Chrysler Pacifica
In keeping with my current life stage, a bunch of my friends own minivans. Three of my four siblings have each owned multiple minivans. I own a minivan. And this week, the test vehicle at GCBC Towers...
View ArticleU.S. Minivan Sales Will Rise To A Nine-Year High In 2016, FCA Market Share At...
A long ways from the 1.1 million minivans sold in 2005, U.S. sales of sliding-door people carriers are on track to rise to a nine-year high of more than 600,000 units in calendar year 2016. Through the...
View ArticleWith 30 Extra Horses, 2017 Toyota Sienna Becomes America’s Most Powerful Minivan
Updated for 2015 with a revised interior, an invisible facelift, and improved LATCH access, the 2015 Toyota Sienna was nevertheless mechanically identical to the Sienna of 2011-2014. The Toyota Sienna...
View ArticleAll-New Toyota Sienna? Not Yet: Toyota Facelifts And Updates The...
Surely it’s time for a new minivan from Toyota. Despite significant interior updates for the 2015 model year and significant powertrain improvements for 2017, the third-generation Toyota Sienna that...
View ArticleAfter a Dreadful Start, 2017’s Second Half Is the Minivan’s Time To Shine –...
The 2018 Honda Odyssey went on sale three weeks ago. The Chrysler Pacifica has only been on the market for a year. The Toyota Sienna will enjoy another refresh for the 2018 model year. If ever there...
View ArticleAmerica’s Minivan Segment on Track for Worst Year Since 2009 – the Depths of...
Eight years ago, American consumers, businesses, and governments acquired only 10.4 million new vehicles. Sound like a lot? The U.S. auto industry generated an average of 16 million new vehicle sales...
View ArticleThe 2018 Honda Odyssey Just Lost a Minivan Comparison Test (*Shock Horror Gasp*)
It was quicker, quieter, more fuel efficient, and less expensive, but the all-new 2018 Honda Odyssey failed to win its first Car and Driver minivan comparison test. The fifth-gen Odyssey is also the...
View ArticleMinivans Sales Show Some Buoyancy in the U.S., but Only Because of Two...
You’d think the advent of dedicated electric vehicle platforms would breed a new era of flat-floored minivans, but most automakers just aren’t interested in going that route — internal combustion or...
View Article2017 Toyota Sienna XLE AWD Review – Well-Aged Swagger
Yes, you read the headline correctly — this is indeed a review, running in June 2018, of a 2017 model year vehicle. Chalk it up to other priorities (after all, writing isn’t my full-time gig) but...
View Article2019 Toyota Sienna: Bringing All-wheel Drive to More of the Masses
As the Ford Aerostar and Toyota Previa fade from our collective memory, one could be forgiven for thinking minivans were always a front-drive proposition. As for winter-beating all-wheel drive, a...
View ArticleToyota Investing $500 Million Into Uber for Driverless Partnership
Toyota Motor Corp. is set to drop about $500 million into Uber Technologies Inc. under an agreement that will see both companies work jointly on self-driving vehicles. The ultimate goal is for Toyota...
View ArticleBuyers Take a Sienna Siesta, but Toyota Isn’t Losing Sleep
Twenty-one years after Toyota replaced the alluring Previa with a new, more conventional people mover, the Sienna minivan finds itself falling out of favor among American buyers. SUVs and crossovers...
View ArticleIn a Slowing U.S. Auto Market, Minivan Sales Are Falling 7 Times Faster Than...
The minivan as we know it is not dead. Credit for the minivan segment’s still-beating heart belongs in large part to the disappearance of most contenders – so few competitors remain that a handful of...
View ArticleToyota to Chrysler: Two Can Play This Game
It seems that Chrysler’s Pacifica won’t be the only available hybrid minivan for long. While the Ontario-built model, which challenges Toyota’s Sienna by adding all-wheel drive for 2021, remains the...
View Article2021 Toyota Sienna: Have It Your Way
Long overdue for a revamp, the fourth-generation Toyota Sienna bowed today, ditching the previous model’s 3.5-liter V6 engine in favor of a more fuel-conscious alternative. Before, the long-running...
View ArticleThe Last Minivan Battle? Orders Open for the AWD Chrysler Pacifica
Seating, fuel economy, and traction: these are the three areas in which the 2021 Chrysler Pacifica and all-new Toyota Sienna will do battle, though neither of these vehicles is a direct match for the...
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