M6 rear space

[dubbs]

Does the coupe have enough room for regular use with kids in the rear? Child seat in one seat (1year old, forward facing) and a 10 year old in the other.

Other car would be a golf but when visiting relations on a blast or weekend away I'd want to take the family in "my" car...

[Zod]

Derestrictor is the expert, but I think it would be tight for a ten year old.

[Webber3]

It should be ok for smaller kids, 12 and under, but it all depends on how tall the people in the front are. If the driver is over 6ft tall there will be no legroom in the back however small your kids are.

[dubbs]

Driver 5ft 10, passenger 5ft 4 ish

Would need baby seat on passenger side and 10yr old on my side. 10 year old is about average height for her age I guess.

Buggy and weekends worth of luggage in boot.

Keep thinking maybe it'd have to be an M5 but REALLY want a coupe as the 4 up option doesn't happen too often. (guessing it would once I owned one!)

[Webber3]

dubbs said:

Driver 5ft 10, passenger 5ft 4 ish

Would need baby seat on passenger side and 10yr old on my side. 10 year old is about average height for her age I guess.

Buggy and weekends worth of luggage in boot.

Keep thinking maybe it'd have to be an M5 but REALLY want a coupe as the 4 up option doesn't happen too often. (guessing it would once I owned one!)

I always put my oldest child behind my wife as she's 5ft 4 and as a passenger it's easier to push your seat forward to give the rear seat passenger more legroom. As the driver you're always going to have a limit on how far you can push the seat forward. It's probably best if you get the whole family down to your local BMW dealership for a sit in one of their cars.

Buggy and luggage in the boot! Maybe you do need a 5 series

[dubbs]

True but would a child seat fit in those seats...?!

I heard the coupe's boot is rather large so expect weekend luggage and a skinny McLaren buggy to fit ok... no?

[dazren]

DeR has a child seat in the back of his M6 for DeR junior.

[Webber3]

dubbs said:

True but would a child seat fit in those seats...?!

I heard the coupe's boot is rather large so expect weekend luggage and a skinny McLaren buggy to fit ok... no?

Child seats do fit, but don't sit in there that well. I always put a blanket under ours which helps, it also stops the seat ruining the leather.

We've got a convertible, so I'm not sure about the coupe. Our boot is very wide (Wider than a 3 series) and quite deep, but doesn't have much height even with the roof up.

Edited by Webber3 on Thursday 5th June 17:28

[derestrictor]

My sprogs get in, one of whom is entirely too tall for a 6 year old but 10...well, I'd suggest unless you shared genes with the Wadlow family of Illinois, it shouldn't be a problem.

It's no great shakes to wind yourself forward a couple of clicks if there are any issues (retracting the telescopic steering to match) and then you're away.

Snug, yes but cramped, absolutely not; I've had Gurkha in mine.

[Gazzab]

derestrictor said:

I've had Gurkha in mine.

Now that must have been a squeeze.

[espresso]

I tried the similar thing with trying to squeeze a 9 year old and a 6 year old in.
However hard I tried (and believe me I did!) it wouldn't work.
Much as I therefore preferred the '6' I had to settle for an M5.

The annoying thing about kids of course is that they also keep on getting bigger...

[derestrictor]

'Presso, let them suffer for your art.

[espresso]

it wasn't me - it was the doctor!
I booked them both in for leg amputations but he kept quoting some code of ethics thing at me...

[jonlwright]

I have a 9 year old and a 4 year old in a child seat in the back of mine. I am 6'2" and my wife is 5'10". All with no problems. Boot is huge.

I actually have the 9 year old behind me, because although he is bigger, because his feet reach to the floor (and hence under the drivers seat) he actually needs less leg room than the little one in a child seat.

Mind you, mind have been brought up in the back of Minis and 911's, so to them it is positively spacious