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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minivans lack AWD and good ground clearance.    So they are not really a better option.  [/quote]

You can get AWD Sienna.  You don’t really need the SUV kind of ground clearance unless you take it off road[/quote]

DP.  I do want both 4WD/AWD and ground clearance.

But I think ground clearance is more beneficial then AWD/4WD.  Where even though I have a 4WD (where you need to manually switch between 2WD and 4WD), I rarely put my car in 4WD and have never been stuck.  (There have been instances where I needed to put it in 4WD to get out of/through some spots)

And I've seen a good number of AWD cars get stuck at the same places.  Often times you see that not all of the wheels are spinning because I guess the sensor doesn't detect that it needs to spin the wheels.

There are some parking lot entrances and inclines and dips on roadways, where I see cars often bottoming out on a normal day.  And you see other cars scrape their hitches due to being too low to the ground.

With that being said, I think 7 to 8 inches is enough for normal driving.  And when you look at the early 2000s minivans they had about 7 inches of ground clearance:
2005 Toyota Sienna 6.9 inches
2025 Toyota Sienna 6.4 inches  to get 7 inches you have to get the "off road version" Woodland

2005 Honda Odyssey 4.5 inches
2025 Honda Odyssey 4.5 inches

For the Honda Odyssey, I looked at them on the road and they don't seem to far different then other cars.  So think they must have a low hanging part somewhere underneath that decreases the ground clearance.

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Unless you're really rural you'll be fine in a Sienna. I've driven them since 2010 in Colorado and unless we get 2 feet of snow overnight clearance has never been a problem. [/quote]

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