Car that fits 3 seats across but not a people mover or SUV

So my car is off the road and will be for a good 4 to 6 weeks - throw Christmas in there and who knows what that is in reality. We've been talking for a while about upgrading DH's car and/or getting me a "muppet bus" AKA a people mover - something we were going to look at doing next year but given I'm not without a way of getting the girls around at all unless we spend thousands on a hire car we're thinking of bringing it forward.

I'm pretty up there on what the pros and cons are of lots of the people movers and 7 seater SUVs, but I'm wondering who has just a good old fashioned 5 seat, 4 door sedan that fits three seats across the back - two boosters and a rear facing SnS Meridien.

Thanks very much ladies. Buying a new car should be fun and exciting, but given the circumstances that we've found ourselves in I'm finding it very stressful and struggling to work out what is the best way for us to go.

I can get 3 seats in my Camry, it's a squeeze but they fit :) I've have two forward facing safe n sounds convertible seats and a hipod booster.

Not a sedan, but a station wagon...we have an older commadore station wagon, but the sports wagons fit 3 seats in them too, we have hired one recently on holidays. I would say the sedans are very similar in size to fit car seats into.

You will fit 3 easily across a Falcon. Possibly a Volvo V70, depending on your height (ie how far back you want your front seats, positions of carseats).

Pretty sure my friend's have a Mazda 6 wagon that fits 3 :hug: Hope you work it all out hun xoxoxo

I have an 05 Commodore wagon. Easily fits 3 seats, & I have 3rd row seats in mine that I can fold down.
Had 3 seats in both a Commodore & Falcon sedan around the same year model easily :)

In both our magna verada station wagon and our Commodore we fit 2 boosters and a rf meridian. :)

Commodore station wagon here too, S&S Compaq, HiLiner and BabyLove Ezy Combo all fit :). Also had a commodore sedan when my wagon was at the crash repairer and that also fit 3 car seats but I'm not a car person and don't know the make ;)

Ford Falcon's will fit 3 easily :)

commodore station wagons do the job.

for a new car the prius v does too.

Just a tip, when you do go looking, make sure you try your seats in the car facing both rearward & forward. Nothing my stressful then it all fitting nicely till its time forward face.

Nrma also did a road test of cars for kid seats in 2010, its on their website, shows how many seats fit, how accessible anchor points and seat belts are etc.

We have a 2012 ford territory & it fits very comfortably our rear facing capsule for newborn, maxi rider for 3 year old & safe sound compaq for 2 year old. We needed a new car as we had an accident in the old one, I called baby bunting and asked the car seat fitting man what car would work with what. He was really helpful and we went for the territory. Plus ours converts into a 7 seater too if we need it.

thanks so much lovely ladies. Will do some investigating.

Will definitely check out the NRMA website - that sounds like an incredibly useful report!!

Our commodore wagon fits 3 seats easily!!! Love my wagon!!!!

2003 Commodore sedan here = fits 3 across the back easily as well.

Our 2007 Hyundai elantra fits 3

Friends of ours have a Toyota Aurion - a 2009 model I think. It fits three car seats (rear-facing infant seat, toddler and booster seats).
For the record, we have a Holden Captiva, so an SUV, which fits three seats ... I love, love, love my car :)

Thanks ladies. We've ended up hiring a car for now so we're not racing out and buying the first thing that's available without thinking through all the practicalities. I've finally got a muppet bus, even if only a "borrowed" one, so it will be interesting if I love the reality of it as much as I love the idea of it.

Yannow that's not a bad idea if you can find a similar car to what you want to buy! Try and hire before you buy!Happy driving babe!

Does anyone have a VW Golf, and fit 3 seats in the back? What seats do you have?

one more question, dh said that the carseats shouldn't touch each other. due to the shock in an accident getting passing through all three seats rather than each one dealing with only shock it is directly exposed to. have you heard this? is it possible to have 3 seats in a row without them touching?

I was asking about car seats the other day and Eenee pointed me to the NRMA website that says about car seats for which car. I'm a dufus when it comes to links so have a look in my thread titled something like "CX5 - does anyone have one" or something like that. The website describes what seats fit in what car and also mentions things like seats touching but I don't recall it saying it in a bad way - just that it makes the seatbelts for boosters a pain.

HTH