Many of the minivans on this list started with a price tag of well over $25,000 brand new. Your goal is to find one that’s been well taken care of and the owners kept up with all the preventative maintenance at the required service interval times. Autobytel has sifted through their vast database and with the help of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the J.D. Powers’ Initial Quality Study, picked out the best most reliable used minivans under the $5,000 price point.
One of the best used minivans you can buy under $5,000 is the 2004 Honda Odyssey. The Odyssey is equipped with a 3.5 liter 6-cylinder and has a total of 146.1 cubic feet of space, just 2.4 cubes shy of this year’s model year.
The 2004 Honda Odyssey was awarded Car and Driver’s minivan comparison contest for the year, a 5-Star Overall Safety Grade from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and received the 2004 segment trophy in J.D. Powers’ Initial Quality Study. If you’re looking for a minivan for around $5,000 or under, make sure you keep you add the 2004 Honda Odyssey to your shopping list.
The 2008 Chrysler Town & Country is another “must-see” minivan on the best used minivan list. Chrysler was a paradigm pioneer and introduced several new features and benefits into the minivan market. The most widely known feature is the introduction of their “Stow ‘n Go” second and third-row seats.
“Stow ‘n Go” seating allows you to quickly fold up and store the second and third-row seats into cleverly hidden compartments within the cabin’s floor. Chrysler also brought “tip-forward” second-row seats to the industry. This feature allowed passengers easier access to the back row. These are all great features you can find in a minivan you can buy for under $5,000.