Fitting Three Children In The Back Of Your Car
Wednesday, 28. March 2018
You would probably be surprised at the number of times I’m asked about the ability to fit a mix and match of 3 baby and booster seats in the back of a particular car. It doesn’t just apply to facilitating babies and youngsters, having say 3 teenagers in the back of your car can be equally demanding spacewise, if not more so than three baby seats.
If you like stats. 180,000 British families have a third or fourth child each year with 13% of families in the EU having 3 or more children. So not surprising that I get asked the question about seating. Now obviously with a 7 seater you have enough space to accommodate your 3 children, albeit you may have to stagger between the 2nd and 3rd row of seats.
According to What Car, who carried out some tests, even the bigger SUV’ s struggle with space. For example the Audi Q7, whilst it is a 7 seater you can accommodate all three of your darlings in one row. On the other hand, the BMW X5 requires you to stagger. As most questions relate to sitting all three children in the one row I’ve pulled out from What Car’s list of cars those that can do just that (even when they still have two more seats behind).
First is the Audi Q7 then the Citroen Grand C4 Spacetourer, it is a 7 seater but can accommodate three in one row. Others are Seat Alhambra (7 Seat), Vauxhall Zafira Tourer (7 Seat), VW Touran (7 Seat). Clearly, by fitting the kids in the one row, it leaves more space in the boot area for luggage. By Graham Hill
