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The Flex seemed like a nice design, to me.  I also like minivans as family movers a lot.  Practicality wise, they are great.  

My step daughter has four kids and had an Odyssey I drove a few times (and didn't much like), but she  traded it in on an SUV of some sort.  

The Flex seemed like a nice design, to me.  I also like minivans as family movers a lot.  Practicality wise, they are great. 

My step daughter has four kids and had an Odyssey I drove a few times (and didn't much like), but she  traded it in on an SUV of some sort. 

Yeah, we had an Odyssey when I was still married to my ex. She got it in the divorce. They're great. 

But as a [relatively] newly divorced guy needing a vehicle that would hold more people comfortably than my 2dr Jeep Wrangler, I wasn't going to be buying a damn minivan. 

I'm still on the fence for what to do once the kids start moving off to college and I no longer need a massive people mover. 

I haven't decided yet if I'm going to get something practical or sporty. And not sure what powertrain I'll end up with either. 

But there's part of me that just says "drive the Flex until it dies" since I also have the Jeep, and while sporty might be fun, "bought and paid for" is often better. 

Neither me or the wife wanted to be Vanimals, so we had a couple of Tahoe's and a Trailblazer (garbage) when the kids were with us. I drove Volvo sedans.

I feel like I'm the one person on earth who hates SUV's

Yeah I'm pretty much counting on holding the same vehicles until the kids are out of college.  That's 8 years from now.  So... yeah...

But THEN... that's when I finally get my 1965 Mustang convertible.  I'll be 60. 

The best decision financially usually is to drive it til it dies, and view a vehicle purely as a conveyance, not a status item.  I find SUVs in the main to be gas hogs without much interior room relative to a "minivan".  But they clearly are far more popular.

When my kids left for college, I traded a minivan with about 88,000 miles on it for the Caddy CTS 2005 which I liked quite a bit.  A more practical vehicle would have been a Malibu or Accord.  The RWD struggled in the snow.  My wife ended up driving it when her lease ran out for a while, she didn't like that the read end would "step out" in the rain going around a corner at times.  I found a deal on a 2012 CTS with AWD, it had 4,000 miles on it, beautiful car I thought, and it was loaded.

The GTI remains my favorite car I've ever driven much, but when they hit me with a $3,000 maintenance bill at 33,000 miles, I was ... displeased.  I knew it was a ripoff and I could have done better away from the dealer, but the wife wanted the CUV thingee.

I dropped her off today to go into the Post Office.  You park (free) at a garage inside a building, and when she came out I got lost in the garage, took me 5 minutes to find my way out.