We're talking about a family with one baby mathepac! I hardly think a car the size of a Superb is required which was the point I was making. TBH neither is a car the size of an Octavia and I'm in agreement with Bronte on this in that a small-medium family hatch would be plenty for the OP to consider. There is no need for a larger car and I certainly don't see any need for a car the size of a Kodiaq.Kodiaq vs Octavia is an unrealistic and unfair comparison. Kodiaq vs Superb is more realistic and fairer. Yeti vs Octavia is a fairer comparison.
Buggies are huge these days especially when they are babies, they're not buggies anymore they are 'travel systems'! I have a very big boot, old car so bigger boot than any of the modern similar size cars and my grandson's buggy fits but not much room for anything else. You'd squeeze a few bags of shopping in around it but it's an awkward yoke and one of the most popular brands out there at the moment.
Untrue. Rear seats in modern cars usually split 60/40 allowing the buggy to slide through from the boot and leaving junior safely seated on the 60% seat and attached to the car by ISOfix. The boot is now free to hold other stuff.
Ok Leo, why would you need anything else in the boot along with a buggy.
And in my first post I have already suggested the Skoda Yeti!!!! Price-wise another poster compared the Kodiaq to the Octavia and said the the Kodiaq was poor value by comparison. My point was, and still is, that the cars are in different classes and the comparison is unfair and pointed out fairer comparisons between models from the same manufacturer. Maybe a read of the thread will calm your exclamation marksWe're talking about a family with one baby mathepac! I hardly think a car the size of a Superb is required which was the point I was making. TBH neither is a car the size of an Octavia and I'm in agreement with Bronte on this in that a small-medium family hatch would be plenty for the OP to consider. There is no need for a larger car and I certainly don't see any need for a car the size of a Kodiaq.
Ah @Leo, give a lad a break, please. I have @ceistbeag firing exclamation marks at me because he thinks I'm suggesting cars that are too big for one child and now you're (figuratively) kicking lumps out of me for not allowing for more than one. Should I offer family planning advice to go along with my car suggestion which is the Shkoda Yeti (just to be clear, to be clear)And then child #2 comes along and you need 2 child seats or a child seat and a booster... Most, and perhaps all of the small-mid size SUVs can't accommodate two seats in the 60 split.
I don't agree. Lifting shopping etc out of the boot of a saloon car is hardly difficult. The same applies to getting a baby in and out of their seat. If you can't manage that then you need to see a physio and maybe get some exercise.And that's the crux of it so an SUV it is.
Saloons & hatches make you bend down to fill or empty the boot, lifting weight at an odd angle, by bending your back. The SUV-style car lets you pull the weight towards you and lower it (to the ground if necessary) by bending at the knees, reversing the process to fill the boot.
Similarly, for seating Junior, bending the back at odd angles is minimised or eliminated with the high seats.
If Mr. or Ms. "Elf and Safety" were to see the contortions required of the Mammies to seat small kids and their attendant accoutrements in saloons and hatches, there'd be war.
Out of curiosity, how many female contributors proposing non-SUVs are there to this thread? I'm male FYI.
And then child #2 comes along and you need 2 child seats or a child seat and a booster... Most, and perhaps all of the small-mid size SUVs can't accommodate two seats in the 60 split.
I focus sized car can. The 60/40 split is when the back seats fold down in two sections, one 60% of the width of the seat, the other the other 40%.I don't know what a 60 split is but even small cars can take two child seats???
Would they ever want to go anywhere? I know friends who bought a Qashqai thinking it'd be great but they're getting rid of it now as they can't even visit parents overnight without trying to stuff two kids and all the luggage in the back seats.
I focus sized car can. The 60/40 split is when the back seats fold down in two sections, one 60% of the width of the seat, the other the other 40%.
I haven't had to do this, but what are the bringing with them that needs so much space? Like you did say 'overnight'???
As I said we use my husband's car for our summer holidays but we are driving hundreds of miles and we bring things like fans, beach towels, kitchen stuff, cooler, picnic, books, clothes etc.
(no idea what is good or bad about qashqai but are they the high up ones that don't seem to have a lot of space inside). I do know when we go on holidays to Ireland we have to make sure we get a car with a large boot for the suitcases (if we are not travelling light)
The point of the 60/40 split is you can hold sown one side of the other or both. If you fold the 40% side you still have the side and middle rear seats. If you fold down the 60% side you only have one rear seat left.Ok, great. (more clueless now) And ?? My car I can fold down the entire back row flat. It's great for going to the dump.
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