what sort of car is good with a new baby?

With one kid anything can work. My E92 is fine and the boot is huge with a massive floorspace. These SUV cars have a tall but shallow boot which is like Jenga to pack.
 
Simon said:
With one kid anything can work. My E92 is fine and the boot is huge with a massive floorspace. These SUV cars have a tall but shallow boot which is like Jenga to pack.
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Shallow depth is not a bad thing, you don't have to climb in or move baby seats to fold rear bench when you are a little over 5ft to get something at the back :D

Of course a normal car has other benefits, like cleaning the frozen windscreen, my missus can only do the lower half (not even quite half as she can't reach the middle....Awww :D ) on our 4x4
 
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Dr House said:
Thanks for all the feedback, I have been thinking about this and looking at all sort of cars, I came to the conclusion I would get rid of the fun car and get a Macan S / turbo or maybe a normal cayenne as it seems that it's not going to be easy in something like a 3 series.

I came across this today, at that price point I can afford to run this along with a sports car, I don't remember ever seeing one in person but it looks like a nice cabin, maybe still a bit small but I will check one out
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201711161304352?radius=1500&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=New&sort=price-asc&model=CX-3&make=MAZDA&postcode=cr42hn&advertising-location=at_cars&page=1
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If you can, go for CX-5. Lot bigger boot. more space as well.
 
Looking at a sideways move into a Superb as our 2nd sprog will need a rear-facing seat soon and I really don't want my knees in my face.

Will I be disappointed with the low grade interior plastics? Not sure I could do an S-Max, and the Sharan is crazy money. And also a van.
 
mjt said:
Looking at a sideways move into a Superb as our 2nd sprog will need a rear-facing seat soon and I really don't want my knees in my face.

Will I be disappointed with the low grade interior plastics? Not sure I could do an S-Max, and the Sharan is crazy money. And also a van.
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Have a look, Skoda's are basically Audi's with a better badge.
 
mjt said:
Looking at a sideways move into a Superb as our 2nd sprog will need a rear-facing seat soon and I really don't want my knees in my face.

Will I be disappointed with the low grade interior plastics? Not sure I could do an S-Max, and the Sharan is crazy money. And also a van.
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Not convinced you'll really notice it, I've never got in one and thought "well that looks cheap"

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rodenal said:
Not convinced you'll really notice it, I've never got in one and thought "well that looks cheap"

Edit - somehow missed the posting date on that
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Lol. Didn't end up moving into anything. A6 is staying out for the moment as sprog 1 has outgrown the rear-facing seat 18 months earlier than the 'average'.

FWIW, the current Superb has noticeably inferior interior plastics than Audi. It's much more pronounced throughout the VAG range now than it was 10-15 years ago.
 
We have ended up shifting our rear facing to front facing too, she's around two and a half and despite the seats in theory lasting another couple of years it's been easier (if understandably less safe) to just turn her round
 
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