Baby Talk..........
Discussion
Evening Pistonheads people,
In thee months a little me will be arriving, the current car is an '11 M3, although incredible I don't think it'll be a great family car 'coup an all that....
So options......
20-25K Spend
>2012 Range rover sport
S3 Sportback
Golf R
I'm stuck with anything more, these are mainly cars on my car bucket list that would suit.
My commute is 30 miles a day, don't want anything that'll need silly servicing like an Evo etc.
Although the RRS at the moment is winning, I absolutely cringe at the faults / repairs some go through..........
J
In thee months a little me will be arriving, the current car is an '11 M3, although incredible I don't think it'll be a great family car 'coup an all that....
So options......
20-25K Spend
>2012 Range rover sport
S3 Sportback
Golf R
I'm stuck with anything more, these are mainly cars on my car bucket list that would suit.
My commute is 30 miles a day, don't want anything that'll need silly servicing like an Evo etc.
Although the RRS at the moment is winning, I absolutely cringe at the faults / repairs some go through..........
J
I wouldn’t rush to change just yet. A coupe can actually be easier for lifting a baby bucket in and out of the back. Plus, when it’s raining you have space to climb in to do up the buckles/ check the connection etc.
Get the Sport when they migrate to seats and when you’ve realised you don’t need any of the massive kit you’d end up buying to fill the boot.
Get the Sport when they migrate to seats and when you’ve realised you don’t need any of the massive kit you’d end up buying to fill the boot.
Edited by DonkeyApple on Tuesday 12th June 23:48
an M3 will have an adequate boot size for a family of three, without a doubt. agree the coupe is less than ideal but to be honest its perfectly manageable. if you fancy a new car just go for it but buy what you want as opposed to creating practicality scenarios that arent as severe as you may find them to be. if the m3 is solid you may find that the potential bills of a well used RR to a young family are less attractive overall than the extra boot space.
911's of most era's can survive your first and second born, provided you pick the correct accessories!
Prams, squashy bags, optimisation of space etc all come into play.
To be fair, I squandered space in my old 996 with one nipper, compared to two little darlings the 993 has to accommodate now.
But you do adapt if you want the car enough!
Prams, squashy bags, optimisation of space etc all come into play.
To be fair, I squandered space in my old 996 with one nipper, compared to two little darlings the 993 has to accommodate now.
But you do adapt if you want the car enough!
As other have said - no rush to change cars unless you want to.. From your list the the Golf R doesn't have much of a boot anyway because the haldex system takes up a bit of space at the back and tbh there isn't much space in most cars for a rear facing seat (which is what they will be in for the first 6 months). I'd wait to see how you get on.
M3 (saloon?) will be fine for one baby IMO. Pram will fit in the boot, just ensure you try the car seat in the back before buying to make sure it lies nice and flat, if the seats are angled some seats will tip the baby backward (floppy heads) too much.
I’d think about changing when baby #2 is on its way
I’d think about changing when baby #2 is on its way
Zetec-S said:
The smaller doors are going to actually make it harder to lift one of those buckets in and out in many ways. A coupe is going to be just fine until the child seat is remaining in the car and then the 4 door can become easier although I found a 2 door 1 series still even easier as you never got wet or buggered your back up doing up the belts for the child. 4 doors really come to their own when the child is climbing in and out themselves and you’re just checking a normal seat belt. Marlin45 said:
Get yourself a Transit Custom because after the baby arrives you will be shocked how much crap the other half will insist you need to cart everywhere!
That’s the exact reason to never entertain the insanity of getting a larger car just because a baby has appeared. It merely opens a total cannof insanity worms of hormonally unbalanced bints demanding massive unecassary purchases to validate their amazing feet of giving birth the exact same as has happened billionsnof times before. Keeping the car is step one in managing expectations for the next 20 years. Besides, it will soon become apparent that treating yourself to a big new car as a reward for not spaffing your load into a sock and the subsequent high cost purchases to fill it with tat was economic tomfoolery as the most important thing to be spending any resources on is R&R for the mother after 9 months of lugging a sack of spuds around and then 12 further months of crap sleep and then 20 odd years of running around after someone like their personal slave.
Don’t buy a car, don’t buy any of the pointless tat everyone tells you that you need. Do spend directly on R&R for the mother. You’re life will simply be so much easier. No excessive kit to lug absolutely everywhere and to clutter up the home, a perfectly reliable, usable and cost effective great fun car and a mother who is not strung out to the max making your life a misery.
DonkeyApple said:
The smaller doors are going to actually make it harder to lift one of those buckets in and out in many ways. A coupe is going to be just fine until the child seat is remaining in the car and then the 4 door can become easier although I found a 2 door 1 series still even easier as you never got wet or buggered your back up doing up the belts for the child. 4 doors really come to their own when the child is climbing in and out themselves and you’re just checking a normal seat belt.
I agree with some of this stuff and whilst the idea of using a coupe is ok with a small baby seat, its certainly not perfect. I talk from experience with a Lexus RCF and soon got very fed up.... First off the doors on a 3dr are normally considerably longer than a 5dr, so trying to stick the seat in when parked in a typical car park can be very hard as you simply cannot open the door wide enough! As far as I am concerned it will always be easier with a 5dr as the doors are shorter and you can therefore get a wider opening in any tight space. Ultimately though it depends on how often you are transporting your child about? I had to do this daily hence the continual annoyance and negative outlook on it. However if it were just at the weekends it would have been fine for me - although the wife would have struggled to hold the seat into the back as the baby got heavier.
Go buy your car seat (unless you have it already) and try it. Another reason it didnt work well in the RCF was the actual seats, being fully electric they took about 20 seconds to fully slide forward to allow access to the back! This is an age when its pissing it down outside argos with a crying baby and a wife who still cant get in the car as she's stood there waiting for the f
king seat too...RRS - Do you really want to sink £25k on the old model RRS? The latest shape drive really nicely, but the cars in your budget are starting to date a bit and drive like a wobbly tank IMO? We were looking to buy a £30-40k Disco 4 a few months back and were scared off with too many horror stories (one from a friend who services them for a living), Id assume an older RRS is no better?
Edited by russy01 on Wednesday 13th June 12:02
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