Becoming a Dad + next car quandary
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Welshbeef said:
dvs_dave said:
You're getting into the weeds and blinding yourself with theory.
This evening I took another baby carrier we have and installed it in the other rear seat of my A8. I didn't install the base as that would make it difficult to actually get into and out of the middle seat. Rather I slid into the middle seat whilst carrying the other baby carrier and buckled it in beside me. I then buckled myself inbetween the two baby carriers without any difficulty at all. Elbow room was a bit tight but it wasn't particularly cramped or uncomfortable. And for a sense of scale, I am a huge man....6'8" and 20 stone so a more normal sized person would find it even easier.
So, back to the OP. There are better, more practical, but also crap to drive family buses. But for 2 kids and to retain some PH cred, a large saloon car is more than up to the job, yet is perhaps not an obvious option .
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1538078&i=999999&nmt=Bangernomics%20verses%20New%20CarsThis evening I took another baby carrier we have and installed it in the other rear seat of my A8. I didn't install the base as that would make it difficult to actually get into and out of the middle seat. Rather I slid into the middle seat whilst carrying the other baby carrier and buckled it in beside me. I then buckled myself inbetween the two baby carriers without any difficulty at all. Elbow room was a bit tight but it wasn't particularly cramped or uncomfortable. And for a sense of scale, I am a huge man....6'8" and 20 stone so a more normal sized person would find it even easier.
So, back to the OP. There are better, more practical, but also crap to drive family buses. But for 2 kids and to retain some PH cred, a large saloon car is more than up to the job, yet is perhaps not an obvious option .
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Hi DVS Dave
Picking up on this I was surprised to see on a totally different thread and without prompting another A8 owner smaller than yourself claims the opposite is true for width space in the back of an A8.
Confused.com
If we're talking 3 adults abreast comfortably then we're into the World of passenger vans which is outside of the scope of this discussion.
Welshbeef said:
dvs_dave said:
You're getting into the weeds and blinding yourself with theory.
This evening I took another baby carrier we have and installed it in the other rear seat of my A8. I didn't install the base as that would make it difficult to actually get into and out of the middle seat. Rather I slid into the middle seat whilst carrying the other baby carrier and buckled it in beside me. I then buckled myself inbetween the two baby carriers without any difficulty at all. Elbow room was a bit tight but it wasn't particularly cramped or uncomfortable. And for a sense of scale, I am a huge man....6'8" and 20 stone so a more normal sized person would find it even easier.
So, back to the OP. There are better, more practical, but also crap to drive family buses. But for 2 kids and to retain some PH cred, a large saloon car is more than up to the job, yet is perhaps not an obvious option .
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1538078&i=999999&nmt=Bangernomics%20verses%20New%20CarsThis evening I took another baby carrier we have and installed it in the other rear seat of my A8. I didn't install the base as that would make it difficult to actually get into and out of the middle seat. Rather I slid into the middle seat whilst carrying the other baby carrier and buckled it in beside me. I then buckled myself inbetween the two baby carriers without any difficulty at all. Elbow room was a bit tight but it wasn't particularly cramped or uncomfortable. And for a sense of scale, I am a huge man....6'8" and 20 stone so a more normal sized person would find it even easier.
So, back to the OP. There are better, more practical, but also crap to drive family buses. But for 2 kids and to retain some PH cred, a large saloon car is more than up to the job, yet is perhaps not an obvious option .
Page 10.
Hi DVS Dave
Picking up on this I was surprised to see on a totally different thread and without prompting another A8 owner smaller than yourself claims the opposite is true for width space in the back of an A8.
Confused.com
If we're talking 3 adults abreast comfortably then we're into the World of passenger vans which is outside of the scope of this discussion.
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