10-months have passed since this 2022 Kia Carnival became a member of our long-term fleet, and this “multi-purpose vehicle” has truly delivered.

In addition to being incredibly spacious for hauling the cargo needed for our road test crews; the comfortable seats, refined nature, and all-inclusive safety systems make it one of the best family haulers on the road today.

I will concede the Carnival doesn’t look like a traditional minivan, but after 10 months of vigorous family testing, we can confirm it is, in fact, a minivan. And that’s by no means a dig, because we are well-documented van fans. As a father of two small kids, the Carnival has made my weekends easier in more ways than one, although I will say the second row lounge chairs, while comfortable, are lost on kids in car seats. But being able to move them fore and aft as well as inboard and outboard is nice.

There are plenty of creature comforts in place, too; in fact, with so many of them, it almost seems odd to have to manually deploy the rear sunshades.

With our odometer now over 21,000-miles, we’re averaging a good 22.6 miles-per-gallon from the Carnival’s smooth and steady 290-horsepower 3.5-liter V6.

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