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Minivans are hard to beat in the price-to-utility ratio.
It's funny how brand preferences go eh? Ford has always been on my consideration list, even through the dark years, but esp now. I've never even let myself consider Dodge vehicles as I've had too many acquaintances burned by trans and/or V6 trouble from them. I bet the specifics of local dealer networks have a lot to do with this stuff (your Ford dealer is bad, mine is good, etc).
Anyway, you'd be surprised how good a 10 year old Suburban can be. Then again, taking on a used car means fixing all its problems, and I generally count on at least $1000 for that, plus the aforementioned precious time to do the work.... keeping something you know would certainly seem pretty attractive in that sense.
With so many tall people I was suggesting the 'truck' style SUVs because of their solid construction and room, esp in the second and third rows, compared to other vehicles. The high H-point ("chair height seats") is nice when you're tall too. There's a reason pretty much every hollywood star has an Escalade.
If the 945 is in such great shape, you might look at having someone else do the fix-up work?
Maybe you could retrofit seats from an 850 into your 945?
Good luck!
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1998 V70 AWD->FWD->AWD Turbo 220k+
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