AT $42,490 it is Australia's cheapest diesel-automatic people-mover, has a silly name more often associated with over-sized cinema screens and is based on a South Korean van, none of which are attributes that raise expectations for a passenger vehicle.

, , However, the Hyundai iMax has won the people-mover category of the Australia’s Best Cars award three years on the trot so it must be good, right?

, , Perhaps the spectre of low expectation is where it gets you – does the iMax under promise and over-deliver on its brief?