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By Chuck Giametta

2011 Toyota Sienna Buying Advice

• The 2011 Toyota Sienna is the best minivan for you if you regard Toyota as a member of the family and you want the newest version of a great family vehicle.

Photo of the 2011 Toyota Sienna Exterior

2010 Honda Buying Guide

By Chuck Giametta

The 2010 Honda car and truck lineup introduces the “affordable hybrid” 2010 Honda Insight and a fully redesigned 2010 Honda Odyssey minivan.

By Chuck Giametta

Image is out as a motivation to buy a big pickup and a vital chunk of the truck market is out with it.

Americans scooped up 2.5 million new pickups annually before 2008’s double whammy of gas-price contortions and economic convulsions. Almost overnight, pickup sales shrunk to about 1.5 million. Personal-use buyers fled fastest and in greatest numbers.

By Chuck Giametta

If tough economic times compel Americans to rationalize their spending, does that mean a renewed interest in the minivan, perhaps the most rational vehicle of all?

It would have to be reprioritization on a monumental scale to return minivans to their glory days. That would have been 2000, when the minivan field consisted of 15 different models and sales peaked at 1.37 million. By 2009, the category had shriveled to eight nameplates and sales withered to under 650,000.