Are You Sure About Buying Number One?

For example, for people who are genuinely concerned about their family's safety, the only sensible minivan choice is one of the GM models (Buick Terraza, Chevrolet Uplander, Pontiac Montana SV6 and Saturn Relay) because they are the only minivans with the critical crash-notification technology.

Crash-notification (part of the OnStar safety and security package) allows you to connect to emergency help in lots of places where there is no cell phone service and will actually call for help itself if no one in the vehicle can. On top of that, it will send the ambulance and fire trucks or whatever to precisely the right location, which the driver may not know even he or she was conscious and using her own cell phone to call for help.

Now, if you don't think that getting help to an injured child as quickly as possible isn't important, then you're either a) not a parent or b) are a parent who hasn't thought this situation through.

But even if you aren't really serious about protecting your family, then just buy the Odyssey and explain to them while you're waiting for a passerby to drive to the next town and call for help that you wanted excellent driving dynamics rather than a good deal and the smartest safety equipment on the market.

That's a number one move right there.