Minivans are boring. I don’t care how many laps Rutledge Wood can crank out of a Toyota Sienna, or how wicked up that Turbo Caravan is at your local test and tune…it’s still an multi-passenger breadbox that has all the sex appeal of trash day. And for as long as I can remember, manufacturers and their PR people have, like they did for station wagons before, been working in vain to change that notion, none harder than Honda. They’ve called the Odyssey the “swagger wagon”…blech. They put in 4G LTE…better. Said wi-fi was able to stream porn until a tester figured out that dirty movies and a kid-hauler don’t mix. And now, there’s brand association. Meet the “Minnie Van”, an Odyssey wearing mouse ears and the character’s trademark bow and pink polka-dot livery.
If it makes you feel any better, Chrysler is now using Sesame Street characters to hawk the Pacifica.
I leave this gem to you, BangShifters: what can you come up with?
I cannot unsee this…I’m blind…I’m set for nightmares, for the next year!
Needs to have “Free Candy” spray painted on the side.
Sminnie!
The inside has that great “mouse” smell.
Honda realised the mistake of letting hip young car designers invade the design studio with heads full of LSD…
Makes my vagina hurt.
Best part? Not available for sale.
Marketing guy 1: I could not be more embarrassed to drive this van.
Marketing guy 2: Challenge accepted.