The Matra Rancho is a leisure activity vehicle created by the French engineering group Matra, in cooperation with the automaker Simca, to capitalize on the off-road trend started by the Range Rover. The Rancho provided an "off-road look" at a lower price.
Matra Rancho
Matra Rancho rear
The Rancho's optional third row of seats (making it an early MPV) shared head restraints with the normal rear seats
Matra Rancho dashboard
Minivan is a car classification for vehicles designed to transport passengers in the rear seating row(s), with reconfigurable seats in two or three rows. The equivalent classification in Europe is MPV or M-segment.
The Chrysler Pacifica, the best-selling minivan in the United States as of 2020
Side profile of a Honda Odyssey
A cutaway Renault Espace V, showcasing its relatively flat floor and third-row seat space
Stout Scarab (1936–1942)