how come they don't make vans with trunks?

[DrPizza]

The designed weight limits for how much a minivan carry aren't much higher than for a car. Most of the space behind the front seats is for children. If you have adults back there you shouldn't be carrying lots of luggage. If you want to take lots of adults with luggage you should get a full size van or a bus.

Not sure what our vans are designed for, but I routinely toss a couple 1000 - 1500 pounds of stuff in the back of the van. And, it does have a "trunk" - it's located under the floor in front of the first row of rear seats (if I had the seats in there; which I don't.) I can put nearly as much in there as in the trunk of my wife's car.

 

[Carson Dyle]

It wouldn't be a "van". At best, it would be a sedan with a tall roof line, with very little reason for it.

 

[PliotronX]

it could be worse. have you seen the "trunk" on a zx6r? that thing might fit a pair of gloves.

My SV650 can barely fit the registration and POI under the seat LOL. Then again, we don't get these to haul shit around with

 

[brainhulk]

 

[Jerem]

No junk in the trunk pics yet??

 

[waggy]

some do. my grand caravan has spots where the 2nd and 3rd row seats go into the floor. if you don't put them down i have 2 pretty large spaces to put stuff.

 

[PliotronX]

 

[Smoblikat]

Probably has something to do with the pillars and the height, and that people buying minivans generally want that extra rear cargo space.

I personally don't like hatches at all, especially not on sedans that come in both hatch and non-hatch versions. I know people appreciate the extra space, but I don't like the look, and never agree when someone says x or y car looks better as a hatchback than a sedan with a trunk. I do think there are plenty of cars that look okay as hatchbacks, just not better. It's not practical for all vehicles to be fastbacks, but that is what I like best out of all the design configurations, though you usually will get less trunk space than something more practical.

It's a matter of preference, though. It's like preferring, uhh, a very large derrière on a woman on not.

Subaru STI looks WAYYY better as a snatch. At least the 2008+ body style.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Subaru STI looks WAYYY better as a snatch. At least the 2008+ body style.

I love my Lesbaru.

 

[pontifex]

this has to be 1 of the dumbest questions i have ever seen here.