Which car?

leafton

Hi,

2 adults, 8 yr old (no booster required), 1 yr old (forward facing seat), 3 month old (rear-facing seat- for now) and double buggy. Which car? I like the Touran, but is v expensive. Would like 7 seats in case a friend or two of the 8 yr old fancies coming along. Any recommendations?

DealDrivers_company_representative

Are you looking for used or new?

'New' choices are Toyota Verso, Ford SMax and facelifted Touran (big bonuses on the new ones if registered by 31/3/07).

Used Tourans still sell well..if they have the 105ps diesel engine or the 140ps diesel.

What is your ideal budget and do you need a petrol or diesel?

smileypigface

Mazda 5 is good for us ..

2 adults, 3 kids, occasional extra school fiends (whoops, sorry .. friends) to transport. Kids fight to get in very back row - so must be comfortable (I wouldn't know - I'm the one holding the wheel thing in the front!)

All 5 rear seats fold flat and give you an enormous space - you don't have to find anywhere to store the seats either.

Diesel version (which we have) very good on fuel economy.

We have all 7 seats up most of the time so we can spread out - but if we have lots of luggage we drop the two very back seats and put the kids in the middle row - like most 7 seater 'cars' there's not much room behind the 3rd row for luggage when the seats are all upright.

Great car though - I really love it - sliding doors are great too - no more worries about the kids dinging other cars in carparks - and although ours are too tall to need car seats - if we did have a baby seat to deal with it would be really easy!:D

leafton

Well thank you both so much for your suggestions. My perfect budget would be as cheap as possible! But I suppose I am looking to get something for less than £10,000 that is economical (well, as much as it can be for a 7 seater). Loving the suggestions though. LOL about the 'fiends'!

Idiophreak

i thought 8 year olds had to use booster seats now?

Rikki

Idiophreak wrote:

i thought 8 year olds had to use booster seats now?

Up to the age of 12 or until they are over a certain height.