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L100NYY said:

My mother made do with a Mini Seven (the proper one) when my brother and I were kids.

Likewise, my mum made do with a Firebird, and then an E12 when I were a nipper.

[Justayellowbadge]

sleep envy said:

Justayellowbadge said:

V8mate said:

olly22n said:

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olly22n said:

Imagine the e28 will be a breeze (my daughters first car journey was in my e28 zinnoberrot 535i).

...because she'll be 18 when it's ready for her first ride?

Steady.

GP said he will help.

With her first ride?

Has he taken up teaching?

Nah, charity work.

Harsh. She might take after the mother.

Edited by Justayellowbadge on Wednesday 10th October 15:49

[braddo]

louiebaby said:

The restricted movement will magically disappear when you can forward face her though, I'd have thought.

You'd be surprised... The first stage of forward facing seats are still very bulky and the child sits a long way from the backrest. Not much room in the Merc (seat is a Maxi-Cosi Axiss - highly recommended).

[JamesK]

People are such pathetic bores when it comes to cars and babies. It's almost always a load of old tosh and they just need to MTFU! We had 2 kids less than 2 years apart in an E34 just fine. Car seats (front and rear facing), double buggy in the boot and a 2 week holiday in France all fitted (the latter with the aid of man-packing admittedly).

Buying a stty soft roader to stick an 8lb baby in is a marketing crock of st. End of.

[Frik]

Or it's just choosing, with your own money, to buy something better suited to the job.

[Great Pretender]

JamesK said:

People are such pathetic bores when it comes to cars and babies. It's almost always a load of old tosh and they just need to MTFU! We had 2 kids less than 2 years apart in an E34 just fine. Car seats (front and rear facing), double buggy in the boot and a 2 week holiday in France all fitted (the latter with the aid of man-packing admittedly).

Buying a stty soft roader to stick an 8lb baby in is a marketing crock of st. End of.

With the greatest of respect, I know what sort of vehicle I'd want to transport a baby in and it wouldn't be a 25yr old car.

Hence why I suspect people buy 'stty soft roaders' to stick their 8lb babies in...

[sleep envy]

Pop 'em in, you won't even hear the screaming.

[Justayellowbadge]

Picked up my lad from hospital in the Mondial and it got used regularly as a baby wagon.

[louiebaby]

braddo said:

louiebaby said:

The restricted movement will magically disappear when you can forward face her though, I'd have thought.

You'd be surprised... The first stage of forward facing seats are still very bulky and the child sits a long way from the backrest. Not much room in the Merc (seat is a Maxi-Cosi Axiss - highly recommended).

That's not what I needed to hear. I'm off to put my head back in the sand.

[V8mate]

Justayellowbadge said:

Picked up my lad from hospital in the Mondial and it got used regularly as a baby wagon.

Baby-making?

[sleep envy]

olly22n said:

It also gives my brownie points. Which is nice.

[braddo]

I got some rear seatbelts fitted to the Alfa recently and found a car seat that would fit in the there for my 2 year-old = occasional weekend family car.

[Great Pretender]

olly22n said:

I hate agreeing with GP, but he is right.

I hate your face.

And your Mum. Obviously.

Actually no, I've met your Mum and she's delightful.

Just your face it is then.

[BillyB]

Kids and cars are an odd topic. When they are newborn you buy a massive car to a) keep them safe and b) put all their stuff in. As soon as they are out of the massive, bulky seats you happily sling them in the back of any old, 25-year old deathtrap without a second's thought (in my case a 944 and now a 964) .

The safety issue is nonsense IMO but you will never have to lug around so much crap as when you have a newborn.

Now mine are 5 yrs old+, the 964 is our weekend family transport. Happy days.

[louiebaby]

olly22n said:

I hate agreeing with GP, but he is right.

My folks managed in an Escort and a Metro with two boys.

I'm sure we could manage in a Fiesta and a VW Up if we needed to. (Model bloat on the Focus and lack of Metro means they are roughly equivalent.) I'm very happy to be in a situation where we don't have to.

I'm sure my parents would have prefered to have an E34 touring, new as it would have been, at the time, but they couldn't afford it.

People don't HAVE to buy Nissan Quashqai's to transport kids, but they do because they can, and it makes life a lot easier. White goods they may be, but the market demands them. (Wouldn't catch me buying one though.)

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olly22n said:

She was ever so proud of me for showing my charitable side taking in a homeless, third world being for a few days.

She said the same about you, but then how the days turned to years, and the years to decades...

[L100NYY]

Babies shmabies.

Meh.

I'll have this. For me. Nobody else. Just lil' ol' me.

Thanks.

http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/find/4100_results....

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Where will you put your dog

[L100NYY]

Or on a more realsitic budget.

This.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C332460

[Chrisw666]

JamesK said:

People are such pathetic bores when it comes to cars and babies. It's almost always a load of old tosh and they just need to MTFU! We had 2 kids less than 2 years apart in an E34 just fine. Car seats (front and rear facing), double buggy in the boot and a 2 week holiday in France all fitted (the latter with the aid of man-packing admittedly).

Buying a stty soft roader to stick an 8lb baby in is a marketing crock of st. End of.

I quite like the idea of a Volvo V or XC60 as a car we could keep for a few years, as her old man is a Volvo person she likes them, so if we buy one as a baby wagon I get a nice diesel mile muncher that car carry stuff and that she's happy using for work and I have space on the drive to keep swapping between sheds (or if money allows interesting impractical cars).

I'd never buy a car one of us didn't want like a Qashqai or a Scenic because we had kids but I'd use the excuse to buy something sensible I'd consider anyway.