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Kia Carnival has won this segment for the past two years, but we couldn’t call ourselves good automotive journalists if we didn’t do an annual check-up on how the class-leader stacks up against its peers. After not much debate but with plenty of seats for us all, the judging team whittled the contender list down to three.
Our top three all offer spacious cabins designed to carry the whole tribe, plus baggage, but they each try to solve the perfect people-moving recipe in different ways – albeit without looking or being too much like a van. It’s interesting because this class is often shunned by the families that need it most, allured by low-slung SUVs only to find they need to comprise on third-row compatibility and cargo space, just so they cannot drive a ‘minivan’.
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