三开门及其他：另类车型大赏

福特稳达：1995—2003年

    世界上第一台MPV是克莱斯勒（Chrysler）生产的普利茅斯—捷龙（Plymouth Voyage），一开始它的后方只安装了一个滑动车门，不过克莱斯勒很快意识到了这个设计的不足，于是又给它安装了第二个滑动门。十年后福特也推出了自己的MPV——福特稳达（Windstar），但是福特并没有吸取教训，第一代稳达只安装了一个滑动式的后方车门。后来福特CEO艾利克斯•特罗特曼开玩笑地说道，这台MPV的第四个车门在设计室里弄丢了。后知后觉的福特直到1999年才弥补了这个缺陷，不过为时已晚。这款笨重的MPV遭遇了一系列可靠性问题，虽然2004年福特将“稳达”的名字改为“福达”（Freestar），但还是没能避免它在2007年过早退市。

Ford Windstar: 1995-2003

    Although the original Chrysler minivan came with only one rear sliding door, Chrysler quickly realized its shortcomings and added a second one. Ford, which came along with its van a decade later, didn't get the message and launched the original Windstar as a lopsided imitation with one rear door. CEO Alex Trotman later joked that the van's fourth door had been lost at the design studio. Ford belatedly rectified the shortcoming in 1999, but it was too late. The ponderous Windstar suffered a variety of reliability problems, and a name change to Freestar in 2004 couldn't prevent the van from a premature extinction in 2007.