# 5 Sheltering
Now it’s on to the middle row of seats. In the regular Pacifica (as well as in the more-affordable Dodge Grand Caravan, soon to be the Chrysler Grand Caravan), the second row gets the Stow’n Go system as well, and this in fact is exclusive to the two FCA minivans. Why not the others? I took the time to ask Kia, Honda and Toyota that. The latter told me that its Magic Slide provides the best and biggest access to the third row in the category; it added that although the seats are “easily” removable, few families actually do it, according to surveys.
As for the Sedona, it does benefit from the Slide’n Stow system: the central seats can be raised vertically to free up floor space and create easy passage to the third row. In the Pacifica, passage space is created by the user grabbing a handle integrated in the second-row seat backs. Just pull and the back of the seat raises up and leans forward to open up space.
# 6 More practicality
As I was saying, time to work the middle-row seats! Here there’s no power-driven ballet, except for the Auto Advance’n Return button on the B pillar, that when pressed automatically sends the driver’s seat angling forward to create room for the Stow’n Go operation to do its thing behind it without interference. This button was not featured on the version I was testing, so I did the same manoeuvre but manually. First-world problems...
