Toyota sells a very good minivan here in the United States called the Sienna. Back home in Japan, Toyota sells this very funky looking number with the unfortunate -- to American ears -- name of Alphard. (It sounds like something third-graders would call each other right before a fist fight.)
While it looks cooler than the Sienna, it's also slightly smaller, which would make it less competitive among America's very un-mini minivans.
Toyota also makes a youth-oriented version with more aggressive styling called the Vellfire.
That's right... As in "Van" and "Hellfire." That may be more minivan coolness than Americans are prepared for.
While the Avanti didn't save Studebaker in the 1960s, its design and life-saving technology lives on in current automobiles.
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