Grand and practical

Grand Voyager will be one of the safest, and certainly one of the most luxurious, people carriers around when it launches onto the British market next February.

The latest uptake on the firm’s seven-seater comes with updated petrol and diesel engines, plus more than 30 new features, including heated front and middle row seats, a rear-view interior conversation mirror; a removable torch in the rear quarter panel, electric windows in the power-slide second-row doors.

Passenger safety is also well catered for.ÊTraction control and ESP, tyre-pressure monitoring, front and all-row side-curtain airbags, as well as seven full-size seats with fixings for three Isofix child seats all come as standard across the range.

Grand Voyager also has a Stow ‘n Go seating and storage system which means it can be transformed from a seven-passenger people carrier to a two-person cargo vehicle in less than 30 seconds.

And because all of the seats store in the floor you don’t have to struggle to pull the seats out or find space in the garage to store them.

And then there’s the Swivel ‘n Go seat system which features second-row covered floor storage bins and second-row quad seats that swivel 180 degrees to face rearward for conversational seating.

A removable table fits between the second and third rows. A one-touch power-stowing third-row seat with power recline can be adjusted into four different positions with a single push of a button.

Grand Voyager prices will run from £25,995 - so there’s no change on the current model’s starter price. Top-of-the-range will be a 3.8 V6 petrol Limited 6-speed auto at £32,995.

By Sharon Walters