What's around in seven seater estates. Not MPVs or minibuses, but things like the Montego Countryman estate and the Renault Savannah or the Pug
505 estate.Diesel, of course, and not new...something up to £3000.
those, and some Merc E class and Volvo V70 / 850 / 740.
VW Passats
HTH
"C H" mumbled:
Oooh, I didn't know that. That's tempting.
"C H" mumbled:
I assume it's not all of 'em. Is there a model variant name for 'em. Of the 150ish I found in the web not one mentioned 7 seats.
dunno what the variant name is .... I've seen two :) 95/97 shape
there's an older one from the autotrader......
"C H" mumbled:
Hmmm, looks like it's that nasty petrol stuff, but thanks.
"Alec" mumbled:
Wowfabgroovy! Just what I wanted, you are a genius.
snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) mumbled:
Quite a number of cars have been designed with this in mind...so presumably they're reasonably safe. The options are a minibus (ever seen one of them tail ended?) or an MPV, which again aren't particularly safe in a tail ender but have the added drawback of high CofG with the attendant stability problems.
Apart from that the answer is cost and neccessity. It's certainly far better than jamming them all in the back with no seatbelts. Life is made of compromises and hard choices, we all get to make them within the law and according to our own feelings and judgements.
Heh. A spate of kids pulling faces at the following drivers looms.
And kids are replaceable.
Grimly Curmudgeon mumbled:
Not so easily now I've had the snip. Yet another thing to be glad of the neighbours for.
What, they performed the operation? :-)
Peter
"AstraVanMan" mumbled:
No, but I could probably persuade the wife to get a little man in if needed.
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I was going to ask why you'd excluded the Espace. I've driven a couple of early (F and H plate) Espaces, and they're pretty good actually. Much more comfortable for everyone inside, if you need all those seats, IMO safer, and excellent visibility so less vomit.
£3,000 would probably get a good early diesel, around an L-plate. FSH is a must, though, and make sure the steering rack and heater are working correctly. The rack especially is an unpleasant POS to replace, apparently.Richard
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