Minivans have reached their 21st-century cultural inflection point. If vans are going to remain relevant they must find new customers by fighting off the breeder-centric stigma. Or conversely, their makers should be doubling-, tripling-, or quadrupling-down on the family friendliness and betting on an uptick in the fertility rate. Chrysler isn’t taking any chances with the new 2017 Pacifica.

It has the size and stance of another car called the 3 (from Mazda), its single instrument