The original plan of Congress was for the Transportation Department to buy thousands of explosive-detection systems,' minivan-size machines that work like medical CAT scanners.
TURN left when you enter Staten Island's multicolored amusement palace, Fun Station USA, and you'll run into the Venturer, a minivan-size flight simulator.
Mr. DeCosta and other airport managers criticize the federal agency's plan to install by the end of the year 1,240 minivan-size bomb detection machines for baggage screening and 5,000 smaller explosive-trace-detection devices, mostly in airport terminals.
As such, it is more of a utilitarian train, with a nothing-fancy dining car that served essentially as a round-the-clock bar, a couple of packed third-class wagons with clothes draped across bunk beds crowding dormitory-like spaces, and a few second-class cars with four comfortable berths in separate minivan-size cabins.
The affordable Mazda carries six people in three rows and neatly outhandles a maxi-size minivan.
The Freestar's twin, the Monterey, is the first full-size minivan for the Mercury division.
Mazda no longer sells a full-size minivan, but its Mazda 5 is a smaller van of the type popular in Europe.
Those used to the traditional-size minivan may find the suspension a bit firm, though I prefer to call it sporty.
The taxi steward had hailed a suitably sized minivan, and at last we had acknowledgment of our unusual companion with the steward's shout to come forward: "Hey, you with Silver Man!" Upon that, we loaded up and were off, at least somewhat satisfied in having earned some recognition of our knight errant, though perhaps not recognition of the noblest order.
"You don't need a full-size minivan just to carry kids.
For someone like me, a person not easily persuaded to buy a minivan, the 5's size makes a good compromise.
