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    Those looking to buy a new minivan should wait...

    ... until the new Nissan Quest is released. Obviously the Honda Odyssey is the nicest, coolest minivan on the market right now, but the new Quest is based on the Nissan Elgrand, which is a seriously a posh, awesome van. I can't believe I'm saying this about a minivan, but every time I've ridden in an Elgrand, both earlier and late models, I've been impressed.

    http://www.nissanusa.com/microsite/q...card.thumbnail.
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    Originally posted by Tim View Post
    ... until the new Nissan Quest is released. Obviously the Honda Odyssey is the nicest, coolest minivan on the market right now, but the new Quest is based on the Nissan Elgrand, which is a seriously a posh, awesome van. I can't believe I'm saying this about a minivan, but every time I've ridden in an Elgrand, both earlier and late models, I've been impressed.

    http://www.nissanusa.com/microsite/q...card.thumbnail.
    I bought a new 2008 quest 2 years ago and it was an awesome vehicle, IMO--at least for a minivan. If buying a new car wasn't such a waste of money, I'd consider buying this new one you speak of.

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      The 3.+ liter platform of Nissan is a very good power train, and has been for a long time. In the past we had 2 Quest's, 2 Maxima's, a SE-V6 Truck, and the best of all... an Infiniti I30. All came with the Nissan 3 liter power train. Everyone of those products ran pretty much trouble free to 200K.

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        Nissan? I am buying me a Swagger Wagon.
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        • #5
          Looks like the fusion of the minivan and SUV is pretty much complete. Now the only thing that separates the two is sliding doors.
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          • #6
            The last time I was looking for a minivan - a long, long time ago - I liked driving the Quest, but it had very little storage behind the rear seat, which was a deal breaker for me. I took test drives in all of the ones available at the time and decided that a Dodge Grand Caravan would work best for us. But the local Dodge dealer was impossible to work with and I left there resolving to never buy anything from those guys. Then on the way home I realized that we would be passing the Plymouth dealer and the Grand Voyager was virtually the same thing. So we went there and ended up driving one home. They had exactly what we wanted, in the right color, and made us a good deal without me having to bargain the price down.

            The Grand Voyager was a great car, even when not compared to minivans and other people haulers. But the transmission wasn't quite good enough and after the second transmission died at 160,000 miles it would have cost more than the blue book value to fix, so we donated it to a charity for a tax deduction (won't ever do that again).

            I'm surprised at how many people buy a certain brand due to loyalty without ever trying out competitors. Why else did anyone ever buy a Pontiac Montana, for example?

            But we're beyond the need of a minivan at our house now, preferring to rent one when we need to haul more people around. The largest capacity vehicle that I own currently is a VW Beetle.

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