Car to suit 3 car seats

[sneakysparkle]

a good friend of mine has 3 under 4 - and they have a Forester! So i know you CAN fit in 3 car seats - I know one of those is a maxirider too, and they arent really narrow.

We are in the same boat at the moment - suggestions we have had -
Forester
Mazda Tribute
Commodore wagon
Falcon
and then all your large 4wds - which we dont want to do!

[Arimeh]

Mazda MPV

[Netix]

We put three seats (one convertible seat in the middle and two big booster seats on the outsides) of my friend's (VY) commodore. I imagine both the commodore and falcons would be pretty much the same size.

[StrawberryMumma]

I'd say go a commodore for that price range.

Happy car shopping!

[shaza12345]

Id say commodore as well there always got plenty of space i have a vx ss commodore and i have two car seats in now but there Certainly room for another one and the kids have plenty of leg room.

[MummyDeb]

Thanks girls

DF said no to commodores I was just falling in love with so many of them, we just can't afford 2 cars that are V6 with Rego... Think its going to be the Forester...or maybe a Kia Sportage...

[RainbowBrite]

I have a Pajero and I have three reversible car seats across the back....but it is a v6 so probably not what you are after.

[~Kim~]

A friend of mine had to get rid of her Forrester as the three seats didn't fit. She had a maxi rider, a convertable and a plain booster. She took her tape measure every time she had to look at cars.
Remember if you have an older child using a regular seatbelt you still need room to do the belt up between the seats.

[~me~]

Mazda MPV

We have a Ford Mondeo Ghia and it has three car seats in the back. Safe n Sound Meridian, Hi pod and a 3/4 booster for DS1. It was a bit of squeeze for my DS1 to do up his seat belt while the Safe n Sound was in rward facing, he mangaged it though. Got quite a bit of extra room when we turned the Safe n Sound fward facing, my DS1 was very happy!
I like the size of our car, can park it easily and it is great with petrol as well.
It's a hatch model so it also has great boot space when you want to go away or need to have a pram in your boot with also a boot full of grocery shopping

[Netix]

MD, since I'm in Vic, I don't know the rego rates up there. Is there a difference between a v6 and straight 6 rego? Or is your hand being forced to a four cylinder?

[MummyDeb]

DF currently has a V6 and its costing him nearly $900 for the year! So need to pretty much have a 4 cylinder for me as the 4x4 he is getting is a V6... The price will almost halve for me... Hopefully we can get 3 seats in the Forester as that seems the way we are going!

Thanks for all your replies ladies If we could afford 2 x V6 I would get a Commodore for sure!

[Netix]

Not sure if you know/are interested, the Magnas come out in 4cyl too (as well as v6), and are just as roomy as a 'falcodore'. The 4 cyl's go well, maybe a little too much of a 'wide body', but you would still get a schmick one for $10k. Our '96 is only worth a couple of grand, and there are some really nice ones out there.