We have the captiva, we love it, we have 2 forward facing child seats in it, didn't have the car when they were babies so can't comment on the rear facing seats
No more babies here so the capsule isn't an issue, i am 5'11 and actually found the captiva quite roomy when i sat in it but with that said i didn't have the carseats in, anything is an improvement size wise compaired to a suparu impreza wagon though for someone of my height with 2 kids.
Re: the boot space all the ones we've looked at basically have no room once the back seats are up, but that doesn't bother us, it wont be very often that we have all of them up.
Personally i love the prado but we can't find a manual diesel which would be the best option and were looking at cars that are already say 5yrs old just to get within our price range. i love love love them though so we are just keeping our options open.
minniemouse - what do you like best about the captiva? is there plenty of space, does an adult fit b/w the carseats?
We looked at all 3 and ended up with the Ford Territory, howevever Hubby liked the Captiva more than I and would have been happy with that one. The new Captiva 2011 model starts at $28000, the 2010 model was so much much more dearer so it would be cheaper to buy the new captiva 2011 model. The only reason why we didnt get the captiva was the vision out the back and sides wasnt good for me as I am too short. Hope this helps.
Thanks *Belle* - DP's not a fan of the territory - how do you find it.
I didn't really think to check the mirrors etc in the captiva, we didn't test drive as we had the kids... might palm them off on MIL during the week and go for a drive
i think for me the car is big but not too big, its comfy on long trips (sydney to melbourne) & its a nice car to drive. we have car seats the size of the maxi rider so space between them isn't huge, would be a lot more room if you had smaller car seats or kids in booster seats.
im shortish but don't find vision out the back a problem, but then mine has a reversing camera (and reversing sensors which are probably standard).
im not sure where you live but what we did was hire the cars (one from budget but also holden near here hires them) we were thinking about getting (we were looking at the mitsubishi outlander and mazda cx7) so we could try them out for the whole day and put the car seats in etc found it better than just having a short test drive
The Prado cost us $679 to insure. It's a 2011.
But sheesh, the tyres! What a joke!
Toyota servicing is a really good deal ATM. Much cheaper than even my little Mazda 3.
We toyed up between the Territory and the Captiva when we bought our Territory. We liked the Captiva because of the diesel factor - the Territory is only just coming to be diesel this month, but when we looked at them, the Captiva had a lot less boot space and that was a five seater. We were getting rid of the Rav4, where the pram could fit, but only standing up, and if the pram was in the boot, then groceries had to go on the back seat. So that put the Captiva out for us, because we wanted more room. Plus we knew we were going to tow with ours, so we needed it to be strong. I think size wise, the Territory and the Kluger are pretty close and I know you can pick up the Territory for bargain prices because a lot of companies use them for reps and upgrade after a few years. Not sure about the Kluger, but they're all nice cars. I think the Prado is the strongest of the lot, from what I've been told from friends and their towing capacities.
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