Rear seat size.

[RFC1]

I am wondering about whether i would use a Cerb a bit more than my T350 . main reason is that i have 2 kids, 9 and 11.
I do not think there is any cerbs anywhere too close to me to look at, so does anyone know how the rear seats would compare to say a 1997 era Jaguar xk8 coupe. ? There is one next door to me..!!

Cheers Sandy

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

Interesting names for your Children,, are you sure youre looking at the right car? ;-)


...to anser your question, its a little tight in there but ok for short journeys and their heads may bang against the seatbelt anchors. Not TVRs finest design

[davidd]

Unless your children are tiny there is no way they will be comfortable.

[ridds]

davidd said:

Unless your children are tiny there is no way they will be comfortable.

Or him and his partner are tiny.

[RFC1]

Thanks for the input peeps. I am going to have to get (to look at )a cerb to try it i think....

Sandy

[GT6k]

I bought the Cerb specifically so that i could get the two kids in, 8 and 11 year old 1.3m and 1.37m respectively. Either can comfortably sit in the rear passenger side but it is fairly tight even for the smaller one behind the driver seat and that is with the seat fully forward. We can do three up comfortably on long journeys but four up is for short journeys only. Having said this we did a 20 mile journey this morning four up and the kids, naturally, chose the Cerb over the huge people carrier.

[Imamisery]

One of the reasons I sold mine, son to leggy at 10 & younger son 8+ started to complain as well. They loved it but novelty of strapping them in wore off after a few years.

[Gazzab]

My 14 yr old is in the front only. 11 year old is now to big for the back. Legs ok with passenger seat forward but no headroom.

[RFC1]

AWW fkkit, stuck with the T350 then. ?? Maybe not ,lets try and see.......

Sandy.

[Clarky9506]

Hi, I bought a Cerbera a couple of weeks ago. Crammed the kids, 11 and 12, in the back for the first time yesterday and they loved it. Not sure they will be quite so keen on it once the novelty wears off though. They didnt exactly look comfortable.

[Tang Soo Tim]

My two boys are 9 & 11, Cerb is great when just three of us go out but issue is space behind drivers side. You should get more use out of it than T350 but for how long is the question ? Couple of years from now how will they fit .....

[Jhonno]

Done 3 up (grown-ups) with tent etc in the Cerb for a 45min journey.. Was a bit cramped but everyone enjoyed it!

[jamieduff1981]

I've done 4 up - me plus mother and 2 of her female colleagues (i.e. me + 3 normal sized women). It was tight but everyone was reasonably comfortable. No bent necks or walking like half-shut flick knives afterwards.

[wiggycerb]

I managed a comical 5 .... My mate and his three kids (two shared 1 rear seat). Albeit for a 20 minute blast with all of the kids screaming go faster

[RFC1]

jamieduff1981 said:

I've done 4 up - me plus mother and 2 of her female colleagues (i.e. me + 3 normal sized women). It was tight but everyone was reasonably comfortable. No bent necks or walking like half-shut flick knives afterwards.

Ach, i am nearly there Jamie !!!!

Sandy

[GT6k]

People are easy, I got a complete set of wheels and tyres into mine to take it drifting.

[m60ddy]

I bought the Cerbera to replace a capri 280 turbo. Needed rear seats as I have a family, daughter of 9, son of 6. We go off regularly and the kids love it. I'm 6'2 and with a little forward action to the drivers seat my daughter fits in behind me easy.

Took my brother, his 16 and 10 year old boys to Oulton Park the other month perfectly ok but not sure how much longer the 16 year old would like to travel in the back as his head was touching the roof. So with this in mind and using man maths I have 7 years of family driving left in the Cerbera.

It is a true family car, even a seat for the cat.

[chrisroe89]

m60ddy said:

I bought the Cerbera to replace a capri 280 turbo. Needed rear seats as I have a family, daughter of 9, son of 6. We go off regularly and the kids love it. I'm 6'2 and with a little forward action to the drivers seat my daughter fits in behind me easy.

Took my brother, his 16 and 10 year old boys to Oulton Park the other month perfectly ok but not sure how much longer the 16 year old would like to travel in the back as his head was touching the roof. So with this in mind and using man maths I have 7 years of family driving left in the Cerbera.

It is a true family car, even a seat for the cat.

My cat 'Peter' will love his designated seat. Oddly he's black and my seats are roughly the same colour as your cat lol I will try to post an exact opposite contrast of car/cat mix.

I knew that wasn't possibly for a bloody helmet . . . Safety, TVR; BS.

[chrisroe89]

m60ddy said:

I bought the Cerbera to replace a capri 280 turbo. Needed rear seats as I have a family, daughter of 9, son of 6. We go off regularly and the kids love it. I'm 6'2 and with a little forward action to the drivers seat my daughter fits in behind me easy.

Took my brother, his 16 and 10 year old boys to Oulton Park the other month perfectly ok but not sure how much longer the 16 year old would like to travel in the back as his head was touching the roof. So with this in mind and using man maths I have 7 years of family driving left in the Cerbera.

It is a true family car, even a seat for the cat.

My cat 'Peter' will love his designated seat. Oddly he's black and my seats are roughly the same colour as your cat lol I will try to post an exact opposite contrast of car/cat mix.

I knew that wasn't possibly for a bloody helmet . . . Safety, TVR; BS.

[mikeinsheffield]

Pretty much as the other posts say - the rear seats are useable, but a bit of a squeeze in particular behind the driver. The passenger seat slides further forwards than the drivers, and the passenger footwell is roomy (not got the battery there like the Chim for example). The Cerb is realy a 2+1 rather than a true 2+2......

My kids are now 6 and nearly 8, and even at this age I need to pull my seat further forwards than my usual driving position to give them some room behind me (I'm 6'). At the moment there's no worries with sitting behind the passenger seat.

The only "worry" is that the front seatbelt mounting bolt is almost exactly at kid head height.... not the finest moment of TVR design ever....

However - for short runs and for short people - you shoudl get away with it!

BTW I did try my kids in the back of a Jag XK with me in the front - the seat backs (the upright bit of the drivers seat) seems to be particularly thick therefore this massively impacted the negligable rear leg room in the Jag.... I wouldn't have thought that there is much more room in the Jag than the Cerb....