No buckets but a consideration for us was to be able to haul eight. Which narrows the choices a LOT. A bench front seat Expedition. 4.6 and two wheel drive it's not bad on gas at all for a vehicle of its size. Does better than I expected in our modest SC snow. Has pulled a pop up camper and full load of kids through the Smoky Mountains with no problem. Two of us drove it to Colorado and back and loved it. Wife wants to take it out there again. Mileage wasn't too great cruising most often at 85mph but the ride was great.
I bought it specifically to be a weekend car that could haul us and all the grandkids at once. Pull a small camper/trailer maybe. After some misgivings about it being huge, the wife glommed onto it and won't stop driving it. One downside is third row legroom is VERY abbreviated. You can pull the third row seat out for cargo room which is great but you have to put the seat somewhere and wrestling it in and out of the car is awkward. Right about 175k miles I think. I bought it (cheap) with a burnt exhaust valve cause by a botched DIY spark plug change. Put a "grandma car" used Town Car engine in it instead of fixing it so the engine has about a third of the miles as the rest of it.
Daughter loves her Odyssey. Took me forever to talk her into trying one, she was dead set on an SUV. Second row buckets, third row seating an average human can fit in. Selling point to her was it being an EX-L. So ALL the toys. GPS navigation, leather, sunroof, power sliding doors, etc. Just put a timing belt on it at 220K miles.
I also have a "throw away" Caravan. Bought it for next to nothing. Short version without rear AC but it's just a run around. And the "loaner" when the kids have car issues. I meant to drive it a little and sell it but it keeps hanging around and being handy. I was impressed by the stow away seating in newer Caravans though. You can turn a people hauler into a cargo van in a jiffy and very easily. Plus the 4.0 engine in the newer ones is surprisingly zippy. Always a pleasure when you put your right foot down and stuff actually happens. Test drive one. Make sure it is in fact a 4.0 and not a 3.8 or some lesser creature. Transmissions tend to be a weak point in those.
Rear AC is critical in a people hauler. We had Rendezvous which the wife loved and it pushed all the buttons. Except it had no rear AC provision beyond a vent in the rear of the center console. Passengers in the third row suffered in the summer. Second row folks got no real cooling either. It was awful. Wife still misses it though. My son has it these days and I think it just crested 300K miles.
Other daughter doesn't like her 5.3 Tahoe as much as she used to. ABS issues, front wheel bearings (hubs), I rebuilt the transmission (4L65E), oil leaks, weird interior electrical issues. She's tired of it and looking to downsize. It seems like it's been something with it every other week so I'll be glad to see it go too.
These are all just individual experiences with single vehicles though. I'm sure many folks can claim to have very different impressions of the same vehicles.
