Your youngest comes home from class clutching a bit of paper and what looks like a blob. Using all your tact, you ask what it’s of. “Well, a people mover of course!” Properly mollified, you pat the head and wonder whether or not automobile design should really be number one on the young one’s list of career options.

That is, unless you’ve seen the Toyota Tarago. In which case, if your child had used a ruler in a couple places and maybe a bit weightier paper, it would have come out remarkably similar. In fact, until you get inside a Tarago Ultima V6, it just kind of sits there, waiting for an opinion that’s impossible to form.

Once you do, though, it’s a whole different kind of emotion. Sumptuous and coddled and swaddled… the list of adjectives goes on and on. Other than the driver who has to focus on the road, the middle passengers have seats that fully recline, and the rear seats are commodious when not folded under for storage room.

The Ultima V6 is the top of the line for the Tarago, and it doesn’t disappoint in terms of internal amenities with SatNav systems, climate control differentiated by each row, six-speaker audio system and other tricks up its sleeve.

For the driver, there’s a host of safety features, such as the ABS brakes with brakeforce distribution and assist, side and side curtain airbags, parking sensors and decent Xenon headlights, etc. Then there’s the engine.

If you had a desire to live out of the Tarago, which isn’t impossible considering it’s a bit pricey at over $75,000, you could take full advantage of the V6 that first began life in the Aurion. That means you get 202kW of engine power and a startling 340Nm of torque, as well as a combined rating of 10.3L/100km. All in all, not too shabby and enough to get from a standing start to cruising speed in less than eight seconds if you’re dashing to pick up the wee ones.

Also helping things out is the six-speed automatic. The gearing manages to keep you in the realm of power when you need it quickly, or a less-spirited fuel consumption rate when cruising along. That’s where you’ll find yourself most of the time when you’re driving a Tarago, lazily making your way through to your destination, taking advantage of the V6 when meddlesome smaller cars try to pass.

We really can’t express how wonderful the interior is, except to say that it’s about the closest you will come to owning a private jet for hundreds of thousands cheaper than a Cessna or other airplane. Actually, a more apt description for the Tarago might be a one-car train with first class appointments for every occupant.

That is its downside, too. The handling is capable, although it degrades as you add more and more passengers. But you do tend to feel more like a train engineer than you do a driver. If you’re not comfortable with that, you may want to plead with the significant other for a shot at an SUV of some kind. Otherwise, the Tarago Ultima V6 might just offer a sense of family therapy for occupants. If not, they can certainly check outside as their eyes glaze over.