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Everything. Well the leg room, the boot space, the ability to drop seats down and take seats out, the power.
Down side is it eats fuel, but I'm told my driving does that lol
I wish it had a cd stacker lol
Otherwise I love it.
And when I move house I can take seats out drop the back row and use it as a van.
Eta I have a 07 0r 08 grand carnival. (Can never remember the year lol)
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Yes, yes and more yes, lol. Mine's a 2011 model and we love it. Well, I love my Mazda 3 more, but it's totally impractical as a people mover for a family of 7 haha.
Oh, before I go on, make sure that what you get is a Kia GRAND Carnival. They don't make the original Kia Carnivals anymore, which is good because they were rubbish. Nothing but problems in those ones. Luckily the new Grand Carnival seems to have fixed all those problems! As a people mover there's not a lot I could ask for that it doesn't give. Yup, a cd stacker would be nice, but it's an mp3 player and DVD player in ours which means you can have lots and lots of music all one one cd/dvd. You can also pop in a movie dvd and watch it on the screen for the sat-nav, lol.
Besides the huge amount of room everywhere in the car, my favorite thing about it is being able to take seats completely out of the car. In the middle row we have two rear-facing seats on the left side seat and the middle seat, and then we have completely taken the right side seat out of the car. My son sits on the right side of the back row in his forward facing seat. This means that I don't have to fold a seat for him to get in the back to his seat, and I can climb in and stand in the car (where the removed seat would usually be) to do up his seat belt and also pop my bub in the middle seat in the middle row. My pram fits in the boot easily with the back row seats all up, but I tend to have the other two back row seats folded down (they go flat into the floor!) so the pram just goes in next to my son using up all that extra space so that shopping can go in the "hole" in the boot space behind his seat (which is great because then it can't slide all around the car).
Actually, the only thing I don't like is that there is nothing between the middle row foot area and the front seats that stops objects from rolling/sliding from the back of the car to the front. With little kids I worry that they will throw something on the floor that might slide to the front and under the brake pedal or something silly. Probably extremely unlikely, but I wish there was just a little ridge in the floor or something like that that made it harder for stuff to get to the front area.
It probably uses quite a bit of petrol, but I'm not really sure because we have a fuel card and it's paid for through our lease company, so I never actually know how much we pay for petrol. I doubt it would be more than most of the other people movers out there though.
If you are looking at different people movers though for the purpose of actually moving people, then I would recommend staying away from the Ford Territory. We had one and hated it. The back row is ridiculously small and really only fits young kids. One of my DSS's was only 9-10 when we had it and even he couldn't fit comfortably in the back row by himself. Plus lots of the plastic in the car (like around the doors) seemed to shrink over a year or so.
In conclusion, if I was driving just myself or one kid around I love my Mazda the most. But for a people mover I really love the Kia Grand Carnival
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