michaelro

Thinking about having another child next year and need to consider what cars are appropriate.

2 Children are 2 & 3 so all children will be in child seats or booster seats for a while yet.

Want isofix ideally and hopefully a car that can sit all 3 on the same row (if possible / legal).

Don't like 7 seaters that have seats directly next to the back window so they are out.

Am thinking Touran, any other suggestions?

Cheers

Trout

iTrader: (1)

You can get a special fitment allowing for three seats legally in a 'normal' car - its expensive, but may be cheaper than a new car.

Search in NSR I think there was a thread in there.

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

Are you thinking of getting a cheap car that the kids can trash with Mcdonalds, vomit, mud, sand, croayons, etc and not bother about the state of the leather ?

If so it's hard to beat a Picasso and throw it away at the end......... IMHO

Shaun

lozgti1

Problem with kids at that age....kids seats are mahoosive!!!

PITA kids seats

Dave Thornton

Touran is a good choice. They key measurement is the width between the rear seat door armrests as they are usually at the height of the edge of the car seats. Another factor worth noting is the length of the bootspace - getting a pushchair front to back rather than side to side is a real benefit. other cars that are particularly wide are previous shape M-class and Discovery 3 / 4. Final tip to all future parents: leather seats (non-perforated) - much easier to clean up ... !

michaelro

Vaguely remember that - I'll have a look.
Problem may be that I've got and older shape Octavia which has a massive boot, but not much rear legroom, so may not be ideal.

I'll look at those too - Cheers

As long as it's safe, reliable and has reasonable luggage space I'll consider most things, budget £5kish.

bigredrob

volvo v70, rear arm rest is a childs seat, plenty of room for two kids seats, and a large, easy load boot. diesel ones are 45-50mpg everywhere!!

Littleted

Picasso for cheapness

Zafira petrol club or life ****loads room cheap as chips

Touran nice but expensive for what you get premium cos it's vw

Mate actually got a fiat Ulysses and the automatic sliding doors were awesome for the wife but it's fiat, but his has been going for 5 years and been fine

jonc

I have 3 kids and have had a Ford CMax since the youngest was born. I the first year, we had two group 2 seats and in the middle, a rear facing for the youngest. Admittedly it was a tight fit, but fit it did. Then as they got older the 2 eldest went into group 3 and the youngest in a group2. They're now all in group3 in the old CMax. None of the seats were ISO fix.

Along with the width between the rear doors, another thing to consider is the side bolsters on the actual seat of the car. eg, the bolsters on BMW 3 series are quite thick on the rear bench will reduce the available space, the bolsters on the CMax are pretty small and flat.

brendy76

iTrader: (6)

We ended up with a BMW X5 as it has one of the widest rear benches on a road car. I really didnt want a 7 seater neither so the good lady asked for estoril blue and I hunted down a 4.6 V8, shes happy, Im happy and three car seats fit beside each other fine though the eldest doesnt need one now.

Andy M3

We have a Scenic 2 and with x2 small boosters, from tesco, and a britax toddler seat it fits nice, better than my folks RR anyway

Littleted

be aware though guys the booster seats with no back are being phased out, but saying that mothercare do a full size with back for 26 quid lol

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