Minivan sales keep falling, but experts say they’ll live on

DETROIT (AP) — Ever since they peaked nearly two decades ago, minivan sales have been tumbling, so much that critics have often proclaimed it was only a matter of time before the boxy people-haulers would be extinct.
Sales last year sank to about 364,000, the lowest level in more than three decades. But the vans have survived, largely because there are only a few competitors sharing pieces of a smaller pie. Currently five minivans are on sale. Contrast that to the 18 when sales peaked at 1