Something big and quick with 6+ seats

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The wife wants another kid . I've flat out said 'no' for several years now, with 3 already and our eldest just turned 13 (help me lord). However, she has given me carte blanche on purchasing a 'car' that will seat 6 comfortably. I've got a few in mind, but the basic criteria is:

- 6+ seats
- Luxurious (or at least somewhere close)
- Roaring V8
- Semi-unique (Not a BMW, Audi, VW, Volvo, Range Rover...)
- Left or right hooker.
- Lets say a budget of 60k

So far I have in my sights:

Mercedes GL63 AMG
Chevrolet Tahoe
Porsche Cayenne Turbo
Lexus LX570 (if i could ever find one)
Dodge Durango HEMI

What gems am I missing?

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FWIW said:

Baryonyx said:

I wouldn't accept a kid you don't want for permission to buy a car.

Absolutely! It's clear you don't want it and you're just succumbing to years of pestering

Please......can we talk about cars with big engines...or did i accidentally enter mumsnet?

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dazwalsh said:

Jeep grand cherokee with the V8 HEMI?

Do they come in more than 5 seater? I had a quick look at them on ebay a while back and could only see what looked like 5's

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Artey said:

Surely you can't get better than Merc R500 or R63 if you want unique. In before someone says it's ugly, he didn't say it has to look good.

Thanks for the suggestion, but yeah thats totally fugly.

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Artey said:

It's got that special something hasn't it LOL. Interior (if you get the loaded version) and ride quality is on another level though, if you can ignore the ugliness.

I think I'd rather crash over bumps than make other people crash looking at my ugly Merc

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FWIW said:

TBF, you'll get better advice over there.

It's starting to look that way :/

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Vitorio said:

In all fairness OP, the first sentence of your post reads like you are getting suckered in a big way by getting told you can buy a big car. Unless you actually do want a 4th kid yourself, id consider telling the wife she can fk off and you want your nuts back from her purse (off course in a much less inflammatory manner)

Bah, there are worse things in life than getting suckered into having another kid. TBH I thought I was among blokes here, and jesting about kids par for the course. I guess not. Still, i know where to come in future when I want some good marriage counselling

Vitorio said:

And if you do go through with it, id suggest just getting something boring and big and MPV-ish, and getting a proper fun car (mx5 thread? mx5 thread!) so you can feel alive every now and then

I've already got a C6 Corvette on my driveway, so that makes me feel alive....and often close to death. I just want something big and quick for the family hauler so I don't go from a 4 sec car, to a 14 sec car.

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anarki said:

Tesla model S?

No V8, but no VED/petrol to pay and mighty, mighty quick.

The rear double jump seats maybe a bit small though.

Good shout. I was looking one over in a pop-up Tesla shop a while back. Probably not an ideal seat configuration tho. Might re-visit one before I make my decision tho.

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DoubleSix said:

Yeah, stick to those semi-unique Porsches and Mercs...

/silly criteria

Reasoning: I hate all BMW's, I think every single one of them looks the same....ugly as sin. OK Porsches and Merc's aren't exactly uniquely styled, but at least I can bear the looks of them. Nothing tickles my fancy from Audi's range, Range Rover is done to death in Essex where I live and I specifically despise the 'modified' ones that have stupid names on their rear badges and the only visible difference to the car is some plastic quad exhaust tips. Volvo...yawn. There, I think I'm done.

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Ozzie Osmond said:

I believe the expression is, "pussy-whipped".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pus...

Yeah totally. No need for urban dictionary though

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Impasse said:

Mercedes clicky,

Daimler clicky,

Bentley clicky (my favourite)

Thinking outside the box there

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Tony Starks said:

What about Lexus V8 powered Espace? £60k should finish the project off nicely

Nice concept, but which dealership would I go to for servicing and repairs? Lexus or Renault

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k-ink said:

Back to the thread: 700bhp HellCat. They are freaking huge. Cram in the kids somehow. If there is not enough room, tough.

I'd maybe trade my Vette in for a Challenger Hellcat one day, but I still need a family hauler that hauls ass.

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otolith said:

Four seater and a two seater - she can drive the three most annoying of the kids, you take the other.

This idea I like. She'll have to get a license first tho.

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rb5er said:

You want 4 kids and some stty 6seater?

fk that. Hookers are cheaper and more fun.

I hear that they are more infectious than the sound of a v8 too