Because it’s not a car, not a truck but a Twuck or more specifically a van. A Toyota Sienna (It’s also sold as a Lexus – but pure Toyota through and through.)
It has characteristics that are common to all Toyota vehicles. Slam the door and it sounds like you’re closing a tin can.
However the one I drove this evening – it had some redeeming qualities.
For example – this baby could fucking move. I had her up around 90MPH on the highway. Lovely! It almost makes you forgive the fact that it’s a Toyota and a Minivan.
But the piece de resistance, the creme de la creme, this twuck could burn fucking rubber. I mean I pulled a few whole shots with this van, had the tires chirping and squeaking like crazy.
I guess Toyota finally figured out – give a Minivan a reasonably powerful engine, with torque pretty much out the wazoo and you might sell a few more. But no – it’s still a Minivan – useful for hauling people and shit around. and I’d never buy one as my heart belongs to cars of German or Bavarian lineage. To be specific a Volkswagen Golf TSi or Golf R, or a BMW X3.
But it if you are in the market for a minivan – I can highly recommend this one as it’ll let you relive the joys of your gearhead youth and let you pull wholeshots with a van, a front wheel drive van I might add.
Spewing Truth in the face of Lies 
As we joke in our house: ” Should have bought German!”
Yeah, I note german cars seem to have a certain vavoom to them. And Volkswagen in particular has mastered the turbocharger. I mean come on when you can squeeze 300 horsepower out of an engine with four cylinder engine with a displacement equivalent to a 2 liter bottle of soft drinks well – that’s just fucking cool.