Like station wagons, minivans had their heyday. They became the go-to family haulers whether you had one kid or five, but then something changed.
Wagons fell away when families embraced the minivan’s extra utility, and then minivans were supplanted by crossovers, as parents searched for something cooler. But there’s still life in the minivan, which Chrysler aims to prove with the new Pacifica minivan.