Vans & Minivans
Every vans & minivan we cover, across all makes. Pick a model to read its full history.
Models
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Asia Motors Topic
A Mazda Bongo-based light passenger van sold under the Asia badge through the 1990s — a common taxi and shuttle vehicle in South Korea.
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Aurus Arsenal
Aurus's armoured presidential minivan — purpose-built for motorcade security details, produced in very limited numbers at NAMI's Moscow facility.
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Baojun 730
Baojun's affordable seven-seat MPV — sold 250,000 units in its first year and dominated the budget family-van segment.
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Brilliance Jinbei Haise
Brilliance's Toyota HiAce-derived minibus workhorse — assembled since 1991, the Haise at its peak commanded over 75 % of China's mid-to-large commercial van market.
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BYD e6
BYD's first purpose-built battery-electric vehicle — a mid-size crossover MPV used heavily as a fleet taxi.
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Canoo Lifestyle Vehicle
Canoo's pod-shaped electric van on its skateboard platform — the startup's only model to reach (very limited) production, 2023–2025.
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Canoo MPDV
Canoo's Lego-like Multi-Purpose Delivery Vehicle — revealed December 2020 and pre-sold, but never series-produced before bankruptcy.
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Chevrolet Astro
A rear-drive, body-on-frame van — more truck than minivan, popular for towing and conversions.
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Chrysler Town & Country (minivan)
The luxury minivan (1990–2016) that defined upscale family hauling — Chrysler's flagship people-mover before the Pacifica.
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Chrysler Pacifica
Chrysler's current minivan (2017–) — successor to the Town & Country and home of the segment's first plug-in hybrid.
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Citroën Xsara Picasso
Citroën's five-seat compact MPV — a tall, airy people-carrier that sold strongly across Europe for over a decade.
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Citroën Berlingo
Citroën's car-derived van and passenger MPV — a practical van-based people-carrier launched in 1996 and now in its third generation with electric variant.
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Dacia Jogger
Dacia's seven-seat family car — a long-wheelbase Logan-based MPV-wagon hybrid that replaced the Logan MCV, Lodgy, and Dokker in one practical package.
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Denza D9
Denza's breakout model — a full-size premium minivan available in plug-in hybrid and full-electric versions, the first car of the BYD-led era.
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Dodge Caravan / Grand Caravan
One of the original 1984 minivans — the segment-defining Caravan and long-wheelbase Grand Caravan.
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Dongfeng Voyah Dream
Voyah's flagship luxury electric MPV — a large, premium people-mover rivaling the Toyota Alphard, launched May 2022.
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Efini MPV
A rebadged first-generation Mazda MPV sold through ɛ̃fini dealers — bringing upscale family transport to the luxury channel for the brand's entire six-year run.
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Faraday Future FX Super One
The first vehicle from Faraday Future's lower-priced 'Faraday X' brand — a luxury electric minivan revealed in 2025 with a digital front 'F.A.C.E.' display.
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Fiat 500L
A larger, family-focused 500-styled MPV — sold in the US from 2014 through 2020 before being discontinued.
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Force Motors Traveller
India's dominant light-commercial passenger van — launched in 1987 at the Pithampur plant and commanding over 65% of its segment for decades.
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Force Motors Tempo Matador
India's first diesel light commercial vehicle — the Matador van was a Bajaj Tempo staple from 1969 until the early 2000s, building Force Motors' commercial-vehicle foundation.
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Force Motors Urbania
Force Motors' premium next-generation van launched in December 2022 — India's first indigenously developed modular monocoque panel van, replacing the legacy Traveller platform.
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Foton View
Foton's workhorse light-commercial van family — on sale since 2000 in minivan, minibus, panel-van, ambulance, and electric forms across Asia and Africa.
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Foton Toano
Foton's Sprinter-class large commercial van — on sale since 2015, engineered with input from Mercedes-Benz's Sprinter team and powered by a Cummins ISF diesel.
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GAC Trumpchi M8
GAC's premium flagship MPV — originally launched as the GM8, it evolved into one of China's leading luxury minivans.
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GM Korea Orlando
A seven-seat compact MPV developed and built by GM Korea — sold across Korea, Europe, Canada, and Latin America.
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GMC Vandura
GMC's full-size G-series van (1971–1996) — best known as the black-and-grey van of TV's The A-Team.
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GMC Savana
GMC's full-size van since 1996 — twin of the Chevrolet Express, successor to the Vandura.
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Honda Odyssey
Honda's minivan and a US class benchmark, famed for its flexible 'Magic Slide' seating.
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Hyundai Entourage
Hyundai's short-lived minivan — a rebadged Kia Sedona that gave Hyundai a brief entry in the segment.
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Isuzu Oasis
A rebadged Honda Odyssey that gave Isuzu a brief US minivan entry in the late 1990s.
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JAC Motors Refine MPV (M5)
JAC's first passenger vehicle — a Hyundai Starex-derived van that launched the Refine sub-brand in 2002 and remains in production.
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JAC Motors Refine M3
JAC's compact MPV — a seven-seat people-mover positioned in the mass-market segment, introduced in 2015.
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Kia Carnival / Sedona
Kia's minivan — sold as the Sedona from 2002 through 2021, then relaunched as the Carnival from 2022.
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Lada Largus
A Renault Logan MCV-based compact estate and MPV — Lada's practical family and commercial workhorse since 2012.
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Li Auto Li MEGA
Li Auto's first pure battery-electric vehicle — an ultra-premium seven-seat MPV with 5C ultra-fast charging and a world-record 0.215 drag coefficient.
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Maruti Suzuki Ertiga
India's best-selling MPV — a seven-seat compact people-mover that has led its segment for six straight fiscal years.
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Matra Espace (for Renault)
Europe's first true minivan, designed by Matra and contract-built at Romorantin for Renault across three generations — the vehicle that defined the MPV segment.
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Maxus V80
Maxus's founding model — a revival of the British LDV Maxus van, unveiled at Auto Shanghai 2011 and still sold in multiple markets.
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Maxus G10
Maxus's long-running commercial MPV — a rear-wheel-drive people-mover designed by Torino Design, on sale in China since March 2014.
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Maxus V90
Maxus's modern full-size van — unveiled at Auto Shanghai 2019 as the V80's successor, sold in Europe as the Deliver 9 with diesel and all-electric eDeliver 9 variants.
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Maxus MIFA 9
Maxus's flagship all-electric MPV — introduced at Guangzhou 2021 and marketed as the world's first full-size pure-electric MPV, with a 90 kWh battery and 440 km WLTP range.
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Mazda Mazda5
A compact, sliding-door six-seat MPV — smaller and more car-like than a traditional minivan.
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Mazda MPV
Mazda's minivan, sold across two generations from the early rear-drive original to a sliding-door front-drive van.
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Mercedes-Benz B-Class
A practical compact people-mover on the A-Class platform — sold in many markets, briefly as a US EV.
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Mercedes-Benz R-Class
A long, three-row luxury 'grand sports tourer' — a wagon/MPV/SUV hybrid that found a niche market.
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Mercury Villager
Mercury's minivan — a Nissan co-developed people-mover built and sold alongside the nearly identical Nissan Quest.
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Nissan Quest
Nissan's minivan, sold across several generations — early ones co-developed with Ford (the Mercury Villager).
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Oldsmobile Silhouette
Oldsmobile's upscale minivan — nicknamed 'the Cadillac of minivans' after a memorable movie cameo.
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Opel Zafira
Opel's flexible seven-seat compact MPV — three generations between 1999 and 2019, noted for its innovative Flex7 seating.
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Perodua Alza
Perodua's compact seven-seat MPV — Malaysia's best-selling MPV for many years and one of the country's most familiar family vehicles.
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Plymouth Voyager
Plymouth's version of the segment-defining minivan (1984–2000) — a front-drive, garageable people-mover that created the modern minivan class.
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Pontiac Montana
Pontiac's minivan of the early 2000s, a sportier-trimmed take on GM's U-body vans.
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Premier Sigma
Premier's diesel van revival — a Mitsubishi Varica-derived people-mover assembled in Pune from 2004, marketed as a passenger and cargo van.
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Proton Exora
Malaysia's first indigenously developed seven-seat MPV — built on Proton's own P2 platform, with a turbocharged facelift and a 14-year production run.
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Ram ProMaster
Ram's full-size front-wheel-drive cargo van — a North-Americanized Fiat Ducato, popular as a camper-van conversion base.
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Ram ProMaster City
A small front-drive cargo/passenger van (2015–2022) based on the Fiat Doblò — among the last compact vans sold in the US.
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Ram C/V Tradesman
A minivan-based cargo van (2012–2015) derived from the Dodge Grand Caravan, with windowless sides and a flat load floor.
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Renault Espace
Europe's first production MPV — Renault's 1984 Espace invented the minivan concept for the continent, spawning decades of family monovolumes.
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Renault Scénic
The car that invented the compact MPV segment — the Renault Scénic won the 1997 European Car of the Year and spawned countless imitators.
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Renault Kangoo
Renault's versatile compact van and passenger car — one of Europe's longest-running light commercial vehicles, now offered in electric form.
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Rivian EDV / Commercial Van
Rivian's electric delivery van — designed with Amazon, which ordered 100,000 of them; later opened to other fleets as the Rivian Commercial Van.
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Rosengart Vivor
A post-war light van and break aimed at tradespeople — Rosengart's commercial vehicle of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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SAIC Motor Maxus V80
The founding product of SAIC's Maxus brand — a large panel van derived from British LDV Maxus technology, later expanded into an electric variant.
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Saturn Relay
Saturn's only minivan (2005–2007) — a rebadged GM U-body van shared with the Chevrolet Uplander, Buick Terraza, and Pontiac Montana SV6.
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SEAT Alhambra
SEAT's seven-seat large MPV — a badge-engineered VW Sharan / Ford Galaxy that served family buyers for over two decades.
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SEAT Altea
SEAT's compact MPV — a raised hatchback built on the León's platform, including an XL long-wheelbase variant.
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SsangYong Rodius
SsangYong's large 9–11-seat MPV, sold as the Stavic in Australasia and parts of Asia — produced 2004–2019.
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Talbot Express
The last vehicle to carry the Talbot badge — a panel van sold exclusively in the UK, badge-engineered from the PSA/Fiat Ducato joint-venture and built in Italy until 1994.
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Tofaş Doblò
Tofaş's export powerhouse — the Fiat Doblò has been built at Bursa since 2000 with 90% of output exported, making Turkey the global home of this multi-purpose van.
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Toyota Previa
A distinctive mid-engine, egg-shaped minivan sold in the US from 1991 to 1997.
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Toyota Sienna
Toyota's front-drive minivan, the only one offering AWD for years and now hybrid-only.
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Trumpchi M8
Trumpchi's flagship full-size MPV — launched as the GM8 in 2017, renamed M8 in 2020, and grown into a luxury segment leader challenging the Buick GL8.
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Trumpchi M6
Trumpchi's compact MPV (2018–present), offering a more affordable 7-seat family alternative to the flagship M8.
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UAZ UAZ-452 (Buhanka)
The iconic forward-control 4×4 van nicknamed 'Buhanka' (bread loaf) — in uninterrupted production since 1965, serving as ambulance, minibus, and cargo van across the former Soviet world.
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Volkswagen Type 2 (Bus / Microbus)
The original air-cooled VW Bus — the 'Splitscreen' and 'Bay Window' Microbus icons.
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Volkswagen Routan
A rebadged Chrysler minivan sold by Volkswagen in North America to fill a gap in its lineup.
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Volkswagen ID. Buzz
An electric, retro-styled revival of the Microbus — a battery-powered homage to the classic VW Bus.
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Voyah Dream
Voyah's full-size luxury MPV — a 5,315 mm ESSA-platform minivan offering BEV and PHEV powertrains with up to 650 km electric range.
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Wuling Hongguang
A no-frills seven-seat compact MPV that peaked at 700,000 annual sales and became the go-to family hauler across China's cities and countryside.
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Wuling Victory
Wuling's first vehicle designed for global markets — a mid-size MPV with turbocharged and hybrid powertrains, peaking at 63,316 sales in 2021.
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XPeng X9
XPeng's full-size luxury electric MPV — a seven-seat flagship with rear-wheel steering and the brand's highest-spec XNGP autonomous driving.
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Zeekr 009
Zeekr's full-size luxury electric MPV — a 5.2-metre six-seater with executive rear-cabin ambitions and over 800 km of claimed range.
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Zeekr Mix
Zeekr's compact electric MPV — a quirky four-sliding-door van with 270-degree swivelling seats and an industry-leading 93% interior-space utilisation ratio.