I've had my current 2005 GV for nearly 10 years now & would echo whats been said above. The handbrakes are rubbish. My local garage rebuilds mine every other year at MOT time -which happ3ns to be next week. He also looks after another GV & the guy who owns that insists on new parts but my guy at the garage says his doesn't work any better than my rebuilt oe using existing. other than that ive not noticed any of the points you made in your original post. Rear tyres last as long as any car I've had & i tow with mine during the summer months as we canp quite a lot. Look for a stow & go. They are so versatile. Had one fault on a door with a broken cable in the track that I've fixed a couple of times but thats an easy one. All cars develop some faults but my voyager is solid with few issues. One thing i would say is that they do eat batteries. I'm on about N°5 so they last on average about 2 years but as i bought one with a 5 year warranty a few years back they've had to change it twice for free. Seating layout in these is second to none & we can fit all 7 of us in ours with no problems - me, Mrs W, son N°1 who's a 6'2" prop forward, 2 teenage girls, son N°2 who's still in a booster seat & my 80 year old mum who lives with us.