"Uncool" Sliding Doors may be the Death of Minivans

Wall Street Journal online has interesting article on the demise of the Minivan. Besides increased competition from crossover style utility vehicles, the innovation that once defined them may finally be their undoing. The iconic image of American Suburbia, a minivan door "sliding" open and soccer ready kids spilling, seems to have earned minivans to commercially crippling tag of "uncool". Not that minivans we ever really cool but ... I often wondered why manufacturers didn't put sliding doors on mid-size and larger SUV's and cross over vehicles, now I know.