XC70 still can I believe, and the V70.

I have an S Max which is a pretty roomy variant of the part time 7 seater and I’m not sure I’d want to go any smaller for any length of time. even my 8 year old and his mates look big in the back back seats.

E-Class Mercedes you can have the option for 2 child seats in the boot. It does look like there are not many choices, not surprised as they are usually a crash/crumple zone.

@wombat when we needed a 7 seater we went for the 4×4 route (Shogun), XC90 is a good choice too these days. The full on MPVs (Galaxy etc) are souless but very effective and huge with a few seats out, great for bikes and camping kit.

The new Disco sport will be in 7 seat too but XC90 is a good choice.

if you’ve got a couple of little ones in child seats make sure you try them in all the combinations your likely to use.

There are very few cars that you can comfortably sit 2+ Child seats + an big kid / adult side by side in the middle row. Also not many of the back row ones come with Isofix.

maybe the rear facing 7 seat estates have Insurance problems like the older /Discovery with the side seats?

You don’t have to go that big to get ‘occasional’ 7 seats in a 4×4.

Look at Mitsu Outlanders, Chevy Captiva, new X-trail…

Yes. E class can still come with 7 seats. Can’t think of any other estates. However there are loads of MPV, SUV as above.

I hear this said a lot, but – as an owner of a VW Sharan – I’d feel safer with my kids in the 3rd row of that than the back seats of something tiny like a Toyota Aygo.

PS the Sharan is an ace 7 seater. The middle row is 3 full sided adult seats and even the 3rd row are more than just kid seats.

I hear this said a lot, but – as an owner of a VW Sharan – I’d feel safer with my kids in the 3rd row of that than the back seats of something tiny like a Toyota Aygo.[/quote]

I think you’ve missed the point – it wasn’t said about the rear row in a three row MPV (which is designed to be a seating area), but about the “extra” seats sometimes fitted into what is designed as the luggage area of a traditional estate car.

The one where the seats aren’t in the bit that’s designed to crumple in a crash? Doesn’t matter how far you are from the tailgate if it’s designed to concertina towards you on impact..

I just think the more spacious mpv is a better place to be, and the increase in space is also useful to the buyers of such vehicles.
No one really wants a cramped estate full of people, when you can climb in a full size mpv…

The 7 seat estate car died becuase it wasn’t as good as an MPV 🙂

In answer to the OP, yes.

Reason. MPV’s are just better.

7 seater Volvo 240’s were ace though! And the Citroen CX Safari. What a machine!

Steady on princess, if you read the thread above it says there are not many estates as MPV’s have taken over that space so I suggested a few. Anybody with even a little bit of intelligence (except you obviously) can read between the lines that the thread was going that way.

And while you are suggesting not posting if you don’t have anything valuable to add, perhaps I could suggest the same for you? Unless of course it makes you feel superior by pointing out that strangers on the internet may be wrong.

Go ride on your bike, feel the wind in your vagina and enjoy the day, you may even like it.

Oh, just remembered the Qashqai+2 – I checked that out. Not quite an SUV not quite an MPV but basically room for an umbrella in the boot with the 7 seats up, thats why we binned it.

😀 – you forgot stinky labrador for the boot. AGain, we rejected this on the basis of running costs.. quite liked it, the car not the trousers… but felt slight Guardianista angst even sitting in it. Which is a shame as it was actually pretty practical for our lives, unlike many of our friends who own them.

10/10 there Hooli. 🙂

Er, no. Anyone with ‘a little bit of intelligence’ will already know what an MPV is (except maybe you, who couldn’t manage to name three, but felt inclined to post anyway). If you think the OP doesn’t know what an MPV is, you are making the mistake of thinking his level of intelligence matches yours. You won’t get far in life thinking like that. 😉

… then something is very wrong with your life….