Need help choosing new vehicle

mama a llama

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We have a 96 Ody that we think is leaking oil, and I smushed the rear drivers' side door a while ago so the window doesn't seal and lets in water. So we have only the 3 positions for car seats, and only 2 retrofitted TAs in the third row.

We're considering using tax money to buy something new. We'd be looking to spend $8K or less.
We want safety and reliability.
Needs to fit a GN, RFing Blvd, and a Britax Traveller Plus (not sure our current can) so at least 4 TA with 2 adjacent to each other.
We'd like enough cargo room for trips, and we sometimes take a double jogger. Ds is getting a medical stroller, so we need to be able to carry that pretty consistently.

My first thought was a newer Ody, but maybe a Sedona? Or is there something else I haven't thought of?
 
ADS

QuassEE

Moderator - CPST Instructor
Sedona, Quest (check into TAs), Sienna, Ody. Don't worry so much about cargo space, I would highly recommend adding on a Thule carrier for trips. The Sedona is obviously the one that best suits your price, but if I was buying at about the $8k-$10k mark today I'd probably try to find an '04 Sienna. I've driven the Sedona and 02??03?? Ody, and I've owned a '05 Sienna and a '08 Odyssey... So I have a lot to go on. I like the bodystyle on the '04 Sienna already being the newer bodystyle, and I think that the Sienna has the best interior seating options in the 8 passenger model than any other minivan around that model year.

-Nicole.
 

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