![]() ![]() The standard rearview camera in this vehicle is more than supplementary, it's essential. With passengers back there, what's going on behind the van verges on mystery. However, the driver's view directly astern, minimized by rear-seat head restraints, is about the same as what you'd get in a buttoned-up Sherman tank-and that's with an empty van. Similarly, the base of the front windows slope down and provide a better-than-average view of what's going on in the forward quarters, and the side windows in the wagon versions are generously sized, giving passengers a good look at passing scenery. Up front a pair of relaxed-fit bucket seats look out over the sloping snout, affording excellent forward sightlines. The passenger seats are accessed via a very large, single sliding door on the right side, and this particular van was equipped with a power running-board step ($940) that deployed when the sliding door was pulled opened. Need more? There's an optional extended-length body (high roof only) with 15 seats that boasts 100 cubic feet out back. ![]() The available 15-seat configuration adds another row of three seats and an industry-first five-row curtain airbag-but it has only 73 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rearmost seats (in mid-roof, long-wheelbase configuration) compared with the 94 cubic feet in the van we tested. Who has a need for a van such as this? Pole-vault squads? Fly-fishing teams? Resorts, maybe, or church schools? Whatever its use case, there were seats for a dozen in our van, arranged in four rows-two up front, three in the second row, three in the third (two on the left with an aisle separating the right-hand seat), and four on a bench spanning the rear. Our test unit was a mid-roof, long-wheelbase 350 Passenger Wagon XLT, meaning it was nearly six feet in interior height from the floor to the ceiling (if you need to transport basketball players, the high-roof version adds nine more inches).
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