Don’t overstate the death of minivans just yet. Yes, the segment once featured no fewer than a dozen different models and sold more than a million examples in its peak, while today’s numbers are fractions of that. But despite being largely overtaken by three-row crossovers like the Kia Telluride and Honda Pilot, family haulers with sliding doors continue to do very well in today’s automotive market. To wit: every single minivan experienced sales increases in 2025 relative to the previous year, including the Toyota Sienna, Chrysler Pacifica and Voyager, Kia Carnival, Honda Odyssey, and even the all-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz.
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A Banner Year For The Most Popular Van Ever
Chrysler currently only sells two products, but fittingly for the manufacturer of the first minivan, they’re the popular Pacifica and Voyager fraternal twins. Between the two model lines, the automaker found 125,798 new owners for its vans, split between 110,006 for the more comprehensively equipped Pacifica and 15,792 for the cheaper Voyager, which uses its pricier sibling’s pre-facelift front and rear styling. Those numbers represent a 2 percent sales increase for the Pacifica and a 31 percent improvement for the Voyager compared to 2024, and sales of the twins were up 12 percent for the second half of 2025 versus the first half, suggesting the vans have some momentum.
2021 – 2026 Chrysler Pacifica exteriorChrysler
Despite the discontinued Chrysler 300 full-size sedan’s retail flow slowing to a leftover trickle in 2025, the brand still enjoyed a 1 percent sales increase year over year, meaning its minivans completely compensated for the rear-drive four-door’s showroom traffic. Somewhat more impressively, the Pacifica and Voyager managed to outsell nearly all of the three-row Stellantis cousins, including the 81,168-unit Dodge Durango and the 45,000-unit Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer. The Pacifica and Voyager might have even outsold the Jeep Grand Cherokee L, but we don’t know since the automaker doesn’t separate sales of the two-row and three-row SUV – the GC moved 210,082 examples in total in 2025.
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Honda, Kia, And Toyota Win Big, Too
It’s not just Chrysler that had a great year for family haulers with sliding doors. The excellent Kia Carnival found its way into 45 percent more homes in 2025 compared to 2024, with retail sales totaling 71,917. The news is even better at Honda, which found 88,462 buyers (an 11 percent increase) for the aging Odyssey despite seven years on the market in its current generation. Also moving big numbers is the Toyota Sienna, which enjoyed a 36 percent increase and 101,486 total sales in 2025 – the Sienna received a new electronics package and some equipment tweaks for the 2025 model year, bolstering its impressive hybrid credentials and optional all-wheel drive.
The Sienna was the only Asian-branded minivan to outsell one of its three-row siblings, the Toyota Highlander, which suffered a sales tumble in 2025 to 56,208 units, a 37-percent decline. That said, many of the Highlander’s would-be customers may have migrated to the larger Grand Highlander, whose 2025 sales nearly doubled to 136,801. Neither the Honda Odyssey nor the Kia Carnival could catch their family-sized siblings in the sales run.
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Good News And Bad News For Volkswagen
Sales get a little complicated when it comes to the only electric minivan on the market. The Volkswagen ID. Buzz reported a staggering 428-percent sales increase in 2025 compared to the previous year, but that’s because the EV went on sale very late in 2024. In its first full annum on the market, the ID. Buzz found 6,140 homes, a pittance compared to its far cheaper, far more spacious internal-combustion counterparts from other brands.
2025 Volkswagen ID. Buzz front 3/4 angle in yellow while drivingVolkswagen
Unfortunately, the ID. Buzz is underperforming at showrooms, and Volkswagen decided to temporarily put the van on hiatus for the 2026 model year before bringing it back for 2027. The move is intended to allow dealers to sell down their existing stock of 2025 models and give Volkswagen a chance to reevaluate its sales strategy for the ID. Buzz. We understand the limited appeal of a $60,000-plus minivan with just 230 miles of all-electric range, so hopefully the time away allows VW to make its charming van a little more compelling.
Sources: Stellantis, Toyota, Honda, Kia, and Volkswagen
