What kind of car?

and LOL at the greasy salesmen!!

HA - I love car shopping!! But that's coz I like to weazle free stuff out of people and give sales people stick. And I like to play with all the cars.

We have a Nissan Terrano, a Ford Falcon and a Mazda Atenza which I'm sure will all be fine; they have plenty of boot space.

Anyone I know with a smaller car and children has just learnt to make to.

I'd say your cars will be fine, they're not too small.

Yay the scooter sarahbetha!! I have one and I absolutely it. It's quite fast and always shocks people at the lights. Sadly I have to sell it as DH doesn't think it's safe being on the road we live on. Couldn't imagine getting a pushchair on the back of that anyway.

We have a subaru stationwagon... and it is the best! Can fit loads into it.... :o)

How do you get on with holidays?
We fill up the boot and the back seat with just the two of us, we'll need a trailer if we want to take the kids camping.

I found when I was nannying, it got difficult when I had to pick up the kids and their friends, as some cars only have a lap belt in the centre.

When we got the commodore I made sure 3 full sized people could fit at the back, leather seats are a plus for wiping up spills.

Those cars sound fine!

When I first had Charlotte we had a ford focus 5 door (1.8L) which was fine for just one. We then got a Honda Station Wagon (2.5L) which was great with all the extra room but to be honest bigger cars usually have bigger engines and therefore cost more to fill up/run- so although it was great having excess room for things, it did cost us in petrol. I would hold out getting a bigger car until you really need to- hopefully they'll start releasing some family cars with smaller engines/hybrids by then!

We now have a Renault scenic which is great- its a bigger family size car but its only 1.8L so its the best of both worlds. Cheaper to run but with lots of room.

I have no idea what cars we are going to get when we come back- I was thinking a Toyota Prius for DH and something similar to our reanult here for our family car. Its just blimmin hard to find family size cars that don't have giant engines! I would love to get a Lexus RX400H (hybrid SUV) but at over 100k I don't think I'll be able to talk DH into that

I been thinking when we have #4 we might have to change our car... and I am not one who likes people movers but I saw this one and thought thats exactly what we need as you can have it as a 6 seater, 5 seater or 4 seater.

Nissan Tino

And from selling our other car we wouldn't pay much more for it

Edited by AnnC

I had a Mitsi Lancer (1995 model) which was ok when Ash was in her capsule. The handle didn't go all the way back, but that was ok. However when she needed to go in a normal carseat (rearfacing), we found it didn't fit, even with the front seat pushed all the way forward. So we upgraded to a Ford Telstar station wagon. I LOVE it, heaps of bootspace and enough room between the front and back seats!