[Closed] New estate car for biking

What really takes the biscuit is when you see a single person driving an empty car with a bike on the roof or boot; they must really lack imagination.

or maybe they thought that seeing as the manufacturer of their car has gone to the trouble of filling the interior with lots of soft squishy airbags to protect them in an accident, filling it up with large spikey metal things might not be a great idea?

My old Saab 9-5 TiD estate with almost 200K miles on the clock has taken us on a number of long distance jaunts (including S Spain and SW France) with 2 bikes in the back and piled high with luggage. Minimal hassle, maximum satisfaction. Can understand putting the bikes on roof if carrying kids and/or other adults in the rear seats, but otherwise for security and safety purposes (not to mention fuel economy) it's a no brainer.

But having said this, people do what they want to do - no point getting mega-judgemental - smacks of OCD issues!

There's just no contest; you can slip the complete bike on its side into the back of an estate in a couple of seconds, shut the boot and be off.

Only if it's a very large estate, otherwise it's the usual faff with removing child seas, putting the seats down, covering up the boot carpet etc.

Just to stir things up (I'm the OP)....

I ended up getting an A4 Avant (in the 3.0 TDi Quattro flavour).
I then decided that my biking was going to take a rest for a while and have focused all my recent efforts on trail running.

So: just me, no bikes, and a pair of muddy trainers in the boot.

ugbydick

So: just me, no bikes, and a pair of muddy trainers in the boot

Do you have to put the seats down to get them in the back of an A4 avant 😆

Shoe rack on the roof?

Audi A4 estate here, roof bars on when it's my turn to drive with the lads (much quicker job to put on/remove than it was on my old golf) and will easily slip in the back with front wheel out for when I'm heading out straight from the office, or like last week when away for a couple of nights and don't want to leave the bike on the roof!

I keep a cheap toolstation tarpaulin folded up in the back at all times anyway, just in case I need to chuck anything in the boot (a place near work often has stacks of half pallets piled up outside, I'm collecting these with a view to building the mother of all compost bins at the bottom of the garden!)