The daddy of large MPVs – the Chrysler Grand Voyager – returns next February, even longer and with more cool stuff to offer from removable tables to multi-tasking DVDs.

If you fancy swivelling the second row seats through 180 degrees to chat to the third row and plug in a table to picnic on, you can. Want to swivel back to watch a film in the third row while those in the second listen to music and the driver consults the satnav? No problem.

This MPV has options galore. Problem is, the best ones – like the removable table within the new £750 Swivel ‘n Go seat system – are cost options even in top spec ‘Limited’.

Chrysler predicts the standard Stow ‘n Go seat system introduced on the previous Grand Voyager facelift in 2004 will take most sales and while it may not have a table or an electric-fold third row, it does offer manual fold-flat seating in all rows to create a massive maximum 3296-litre load area (Swivel ‘n Go’s second row seats swivel but don’t stow and cannot be removed). Boot space with seven seats up is still a healthy 638 litres too, dwarfing for instance, the Ford S-max‘s 285 litres.

The all-new version also gets…

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