I know my 59 plate a6 can just fit my 5’2″ wife in between the kiddie seats in the back, but it’s ridiculously tight and only for short journys. The car feels bloody enourmas otherwise, so you’ll,be looking at a monster!

Honda FRV?

Smax with the back row taken out……

Toyota Verso we had could. Never used the back row, they just stayed folded away. Best was that the three seats in the middle were seperate seats, so could slide independently. Was a squeeze with three though.

Don’t have isofix seats, but have had 3 kiddy seats on the back of my Mondeo (and also 2 kiddy seats in with part of the seat folded to fit in an xmas tree). So I can’t say definitively, but it’s definitely worth a look – it’s a very wide car, with significantly more width in the rear seat than my previous 406.

Oh and also not too bad with 2 kiddy seats and one adult.

almera tino…

I would say S-Max as well (though I don’t think you can actually take the back row out, not that you notice when they’re folded down). Possibly Grand C-Max or whatever it’s called has them too?

S-Max is two isofix in the middle row but the third seat will take an adult or a non-isofix seat.

Vague feeling a Freelander will do three seats across it – but I’d rather have Ford’s posh bike van.

Grand Picasso. Third row seats fold flat into floor so a massive boot area

Before Isofix came along, we had three seats across, variously, a Mondeo, a 405, Volvo 940, Honda Stream, Talbot Express campervan and an Avensis. Some of the seats are way bigger than others, get seats to fit the car, not the other way round.

T1000. Isofix seats have a weight limit which i think might be 18 kilos? 12 years surpasses that weight.

To the op get two non isofix seats if you dont move seats out often and put one of them in the middle or one in the front passenger seat (yes it’s safe as long as you deactivate the air bag). I bought a 7 seat santa fe which takes care of that occassinal need for mucho passengers for a short trip. Probably woyldnt meet your co2 requirements though of course.

Isofix might be available for older kids, but not sure what the advantage is once the seat is simply sitting them up higher and the normal seatbelt is holding them in place – my seats don’t actually attach to the car at all. Fairly sure both my kids moved out of seats which attached to the car when they were 3.

My 4yo is over that (according to the report from school – I feel a new thread coming…) and not particularly big for his age.