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lowness isn't really a problem for us.
Our kids are adults (ish) now anyway buy i've never really bought into the idea that just because you have kids, you need an SUV or 4x4 height vehicle.
Narrowness might be an issue, as could be leg room. only one of the four of us is less than 6' tall.
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just because you have kids, you need an SUV or 4x4 height vehicle
This always baffles me. Ours have climbed in themselves since they were two. Before that we'd pick them up and put them in. It's not that challenging.
I mean if you have some sort of chronic mobility issue, I get it. And I probably wouldn't want to be putting a baby in the back of a 2 door coupe, but still.
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Me neither. My dad put us into the back of a Mk1 Escort 3 door when we were small. Then it was a Mitsubishi Galant Coupé, then it was normal 4 door hatchbacks and saloons (2 Corollas and a Citroën BX, Peugeot 405, Rover 400, Rover 600). I don't recall it ever being a problem.
SUVs are for old people with non-functional knees, or they are for people with actual things to tow, but they basically became a thing after councils put speed bumps everywhere.
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just because you have kids, you need an SUV or 4x4 height vehicle
That fucking grates too. I think the sweet spot (because obviously I would) is the not-quite-MPV, like the C-MAX. It is essentially just a slightly swollen Focus. But there is no real wasted space. I wouldn't want a Galaxy or even an S-Max (or Mondeo or Superbe etc). Things like Qashqais and (spits) Jukes, Evoques, GLCs etc are bulbous on the outside but not that big inside.
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stevo_com
Too narrow, too low.