pablogrande Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I looked into this a while ago, then a friend > pointed out the safety aspect. Most of the seven > seaters are five seaters with additional temporary > seats in the bootspace, these temopary seats tend > to have thinner construction and back straight > onto the rear of the car in order to fit them in, > this means there is no crumple zone should you > have a car or worse rear end you, the thought of > this made me shudder. There are some videos online > showing tests done on these type of cars. Ok thanks that is worth knowing especially since it is safety that is driving this due to lack of space for three car seats currently. Combination of booster seats and baby seat fitted into the current car may be ok option. Especially given prices of the 4*4 seven seat options .