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By Benjamin Hunting A funny thing happened when buyers fled the minivan market as part of the mid-2000s cultural migration towards the SUVs that currently dominate the automotive landscape: the few, the proud and the almost entirely Japanese badges that were left behind began their slow but inexorable ascent into luxury land. Both Honda and Toyota realized that it made little sense to court the masses with entry-level models that had been devastated by sexier crossovers, and instead focused their efforts on importing portions of the premium van culture that had long existed in their native Jap…