Best combination of hauler and people mover IMHO is the Ford Excursion or the 1 ton vans.
I see you are from the "east". I'm not sure if you need 4 x 4 capability but if you do the Excursion would have that.
We have 4 kids so that was 6 people camping (before our kids got older), and we first had a 2000 Ford Excursion V10 and then went to a 2002 Ford Excursion with the 7.3L Powerstroke Diesel. Both were 4x4.
Plenty of room for people inside, plus cargo room behind the 3rd seat..
Plenty of power with the diesel or Triton V10, and plenty of suspension ability to haul larger campers (although the Excursions are actually 3/4 ton and don't have the capacity of the 1 ton vans).
We LOVED ours...I still miss it to this day.
