Morning, hope you all had a good Christmas.
My trusty Laguna is beginning to show its age so I’m in the market for a new bike carrier.
The only priority I have is that it can carry 3 people, associated kit for long weekends and 3 fairly long bikes (without taking the back wheels off) in the car or 2 people and 4+ bikes and lots of kit. I tend to pootle everywhere and only do 5 or 6 thousand miles a year so it doesn’t need to be fast, fun or particularly economical. I’m after a reliable tool for carrying bikes and that’s about it. It does need to be parked in suburban London though so length is a bit of an issue and the girlfriend will kill me if it’s not relatively comfy for the occasional 6 hour jaunt on the motorway. Defenders, pickups and vans are unfortunately out, as are MPVs. I can’t bring myself to make that step into adulthood yet. I can’t be doing with bike racks either.
So basically my questions are; is a Vectra/Signum/Mondeo or similar tall enough to carry 3 bikes vertically? Is an x-trail long enough or do I need to splash out on something huge like a toureg/pathfinder?
Thanks.
