what car do you drive to get all of you around?

[tanica72]

Hi, I am new here but we have 4 children and I am expecting twins. We currently drive a commodore wagon with 8 seats but will need to upgrade in the next 6 months or so as my daughter (10 years) is getting too big for the back and I'll need three baby seats in the middle section . There is also minimal boot room.
We have been looking at VW Caravelles which have great boot room and are very bussy to drive. We are going to look at Tarago's also but I'm not sure if you can fit 4 baby seats in them, plus a big enough boot for a double pram. Does the Kia Grand Carnival have 7 or 8 seats? Anyone have any other suggestions for 8 seaters with good size boot room?

[BekZ]

tanica72 - Hi and Welcome to BB. Congrates on the pending arrival of twins. I believe the Kia has 8 seats.

To be honest the Kia has all the features that we are looking for but I don't want to be spending good money on a car that needs to be repaired all the time. Apparently the issues occured with this car pre 2004 but I'd still like to see some reports for more recent models

[mbear]

Bekz,
We had a Honda Od with 3 car seats across....(oh....3 x MR will not fit BTW). Boot space was fantastic. But yeah, they are up there in the high $20000 for a decent model with low kms - we paid $27 000 for ours. But when a BFP for #4 came along, 4 car seats just dont work in the Odyssey. So we bougtha chrysler voyager - 5 seats at the back - with walkway down the centre of the car - which is what i wanted. I currently have 2 x prams in the boot. We paid $20k for it. The girls have sooo much room. I often have to turn the radio off to hear my DD#1 right at the back of the car ask me a question..... ........We got 2004 model.

Good luck - the whole car searching thing took us 6 months...it became a royal PITA !!!!

[Mumof8]

Tanica72...Yes the Kia Grand Carnival does have 8 seats. Anything before 2006 only has 7 and is just a straight Carnival not a grand carnival. We paid $27,000 for a 2007 model as a private sale. It has factory warranty till 2012. We wanted as new as we could get for the cheapest price and we couldn't go pasted the Kia, everything else was so expensive. Unfortuatly because of all that happened with the older Kia's more 2001 to 2004 people still see them as a bad car.
My friend has a 2007 tarago and she can't fit 3 baby seats in a row. I think the newer model tarago's are smaller then say the 2003 model.
Happy car hunting and goodluck with the twins.

[BekZ]

MBear - I wanted a walk through too plus I need to extra space to take my nieces with us if need be! All our girls go to the same daycare and will go to the same school so some day's I'll have 5 kids to cart around. BTW I can't hear DD1 now and we have a sedan. We looked at the newer Chyrslers and they expensive too. We'll keep looking..It is worse than looking for a house