Vehicle Safety Ratings

• The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety puts vehicles through crash tests and uses the results to assign ratings of good, acceptable, marginal or poor. The 2010 Kia Sedona, for example, received scores of good in front and side crash tests. The government's Safercar website also provides safety ratings.
  
  

Rankings

• The website of "U.S. News and World Report" provides rankings of minivans based on a compilation of reviews and ratings published about the vehicles. The 2011 Toyota Sienna held the top spot in the fall of 2010.
  
  

Reviews

• Get opinions from professionals who test drive various minivans by visiting the websites of "Motor Trend," "Consumer Reports," and "Car and Driver." In a review of the 2011 Toyota Sienna LE, for example, "Motor Trend" writer Kim Reynolds says "its muted interior noise is a clear beneficiary of numerous detail changes, including double-sealing of the sliding door bottoms."