favorite car for a road trip

[Anonymous]

What has been your favorite car to take on a road trip?

5+ seats.

Or smaller. Lol, I’m personally interested I answers with 5+ seats.

If you drove a fabulous 2 seater, share your story too I guess.

[Anonymous]

I should have mentioned, please answer a car that you’ve actually driven/been a passenger in. Real.

If you have a hypothetical or future plan, again, share it, but please indicate that you’ve not actually taken it yet.

Looking for experience-based answers.

[Anonymous]

Our beloved Mazda 5 seats 6 if you consider their cramped 3rd row, but its main purpose is to seat 4 and have room for luggage in a compact sedan footprint. It's a "mini" minivan. Turn is usefully tight and the car is very maneuverable. However, it gets loud on the interstate and the original rear suspension isn't great, we replaced it.

I don't know if they still sell them in the US, however. I wish it came in a luxury electric version with better quality parts because the concept of a compact 6-seater is really nice. I hate large cars.

[Anonymous]

I've driven our Odyssey, with three kids and a dog, as far north as Bar Harbor, as far south as Key West, and as far west as Nashville. And many times that to not-quite-as-distant destinations.

Minivans are our favorite road-trip cars. We also have an SUV and a sports sedan.

[Anonymous]

Most people don't want to hear this but the answer is a minivan. Any minivan.

[Anonymous]

Our Sienna.
I don’t have a better real-life suggestion, because in our marriage it’s the 5th car we have owned. All others were small sedans and a Ford SUV that isn’t better for road trips.

I think it could be better than that, but for us its been great for trips. Reliable, fairly cheap to get a pre-trip checkup.

We push the middle row forward really far, and it gives so much leg room for the back seats—stick all the kids back there far away from us!

[Anonymous]

Our Honda Odyssey. It's gone as far as Montana and back, two round trips to Florida, lots of shorter road trips. We got the fully loaded version, and we actually look forward to the road portion of the road trips with our kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our beloved Mazda 5 seats 6 if you consider their cramped 3rd row, but its main purpose is to seat 4 and have room for luggage in a compact sedan footprint. It's a "mini" minivan. Turn is usefully tight and the car is very maneuverable. However, it gets loud on the interstate and the original rear suspension isn't great, we replaced it.

I don't know if they still sell them in the US, however. I wish it came in a luxury electric version with better quality parts because the concept of a compact 6-seater is really nice. I hate large cars.

Me again. We just went did a college road trip to the northeast and Canada with it. It was fine, in the sense that it's roomy enough for our family of 4 plus bags, it's easy to park, and consumes less fuel than a regular minivan. But a luxury ride it's not!

[Anonymous]

The two most amazing road trips I ever did were in: 1) a lifted Jeep Wrangler, from here to California and back, doing various famous off-road trails along the way, camping as much as possible along the way, for 5 weeks. 2) a week long trip in a Ford Mustang GT, in giant circle through the southwest, seeing the major national parks.

Neither vehicle (especially the Jeep!) was an ideal road trip car, but that wasn’t really the point. The Jeep was for off-roading in as many places as possible, and the Mustang was for the sheer enjoyment of just hauling ass on straight, flat desert roads.

Wouldn’t trade the memories from both trips for anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our beloved Mazda 5 seats 6 if you consider their cramped 3rd row, but its main purpose is to seat 4 and have room for luggage in a compact sedan footprint. It's a "mini" minivan. Turn is usefully tight and the car is very maneuverable. However, it gets loud on the interstate and the original rear suspension isn't great, we replaced it.

I don't know if they still sell them in the US, however. I wish it came in a luxury electric version with better quality parts because the concept of a compact 6-seater is really nice. I hate large cars.

Me again. We just went did a college road trip to the northeast and Canada with it. It was fine, in the sense that it's roomy enough for our family of 4 plus bags, it's easy to park, and consumes less fuel than a regular minivan. But a luxury ride it's not!

Odyssey owner. Our next one will be the Sienna, which now comes only as a hybrid-electric.

But I like the way the Mazda 5 drives the time I had it as a rental. Mazda does that well.

[Anonymous]

My Ford Explorer has been great on road trips. I like space when I drive. The more space I have the more energy I seem to have after my drive as I hate feeling cramped.

[Anonymous]

Definitely not popular with DCUM, but we love traveling in our Toyota Sequoia. Extremely quiet ride, comfortable, high off the ground with big mirrors so we have great vision all the way around. Plenty of room for people and stuff in the back and a great turning radius so it’s easy to park. The obvious trade off is that it’s an 8 cylinder so gas mileage is not nearly as good as smaller vehicles or hybrids.

[Anonymous]

Volvo wagon.

[Anonymous]

Honda Odyssey is the bomb.

[Anonymous]

My Wrangler. Performs great on road trips and even better off road trips.