Review and photos by
Peter Bleakney, Autos.ca

My name is Peter and I like minivans.

I’ve owned two. If I were to raise another family (ha!), I’d buy one. I tell my domesticated friends who are looking at crossovers to buy minivans. They tell me where to get off.

2011 Nissan Quest LE

There. I’ve said it.

While minivans will forever remain terminally uncool, Nissan, a company never afraid to go out on a stylistic limb, is doing its part to help ease the pain. The all-new fourth-generation 2011 Quest is a funky looking rig, and one that will surely have the tongues a waggin’ at the schoolyard.

Sure, it’s a big box on wheels, but it comes across as intriguingly post-modern retro with its steeply raked windscreen, slab sides and wrap-around greenhouse that is part Jules Verne and part 50s Chevy Nomad. Jeez, it might even be cool. (more…)