The modern times offer us a wide variety of vans ranging from minivans, passenger vans, family oriented cars to cargo vans. All the types of vans are known to have their own peculiar characteristics that meet your essential requirements. A simple research can greatly help you to figure out the type of van that suits your requirements the best. Some prominent types of vans are described below.

Minivans:

The minivans are highly preferred by many families due to their exclusive features that best suits the family travel requirements. Several minivans are available in the modern market at good price, ample of cargo space and several seats. Moreover, the minivans are known to have outstanding safety features.

Toyota Sienna is one of the popular minivans having explicit features like cargo space of 150 cubic feet, comfortable seating for up to 8 people and yet it comes at less cost than the seven-seat SUVs. Its third row is specially made comfortable for senior people and has got family-friendly aspects such as a dual-screen entertainment system accompanied by sun shades for second and third rows.

Honda Odyssey is a well-known minivan known to have earned five on five stars for its complete crash test performance from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of federal government. It even has outstanding safety features, which are not usually found in the existing domestic cars, are found to be present in the minivans. These aspectstend to ensure the safety of the passengers traveling in it.

The compact minivans or multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) are known to be the smallest existing minivans in the current market. Mazda 5 is the only latest available MPV having great fuel economy and handling capabilities. Moreover, it has earned great reviews for being fun-to-drive family vehicles.

Passenger Vans

The passenger vans are known to have more seating capacity or space than any minivans. This type of van is known to have a great variety of seating configurations and wheelbase lengths and hence many buyers are able to get the perfect model of this type that meets their requirements. The Chevrolet Express is known to provide all-wheel drive in its models. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is known to have high-roof models that allow even 6 foot 4 inch passenger to stand straight inside it. Ford E-Series is available in used vans for sale in 2 kinds of lengths that allows 15 passengers to sit inside it. However, the passenger vans lack family-friendly features and thus lack quality interiors, technological features and others.

Cargo Vans:

Various renowned manufactures offer cargo vans with exclusive interior configurations developed in order to maximize the working capacity rather than the accommodation for the passengers. If you need more cargo space, then you can go for such cargo van as it offers more space with just one or two rows of the seats and the rest of the van is made available for you to carry your cargo. Also, these types of vans do not have several interior features and they come for less cost than the minivans and passenger vans. Ford Transit Connect cargo van coming at $1600 is much less than its passenger van model.

Mercedes Benz Sprinter is known to be the biggest cargo van with cargo space of 547 cubic feet, high roof and extended wheelbase. However, unlike minivans and MPVs, the cargo vans are hard to move in the city traffic and the parking lots. If you require less cargo space, you can go for Ram C/V that has 143.8 cubic feet cargo space and it is convenient to drive it in the city and market.

Thus, depending on your need you can now easily choose one among these vans that best suits your crucial travel and transport requirements.