fitting 3 car seats in a row - can your car do it?

[mckenzie]

A dear friend of mine is newly pregnant with twins. By the time they are born her first born will still be two and so she will need to find a car that can fit three car seats.

We think that the Ford Mondeo is large enough and designed okay to do it - does anyone else have a car where they can fit three car seats across the back please?

TIA

Chrysler PT Cruiser can just fit 3. Bit of a squeeze.

i love my new scenic. very spacious...

My focus can I have a rear facing baby one in the middle (?stage 0) then a stage one on one side then one that is like a booster except with the wings and head rest etc.
What am I doing wrong? Bit worried that I've not done them right now, our car is only a few years old but def don't want to buy a new one!!
All with over the shoulder belts

2001 focus - what is yours tassissssssssss???

I got some poor chap selling a newer one on ebay to measure his back seat for us but it was the same length - can't remember what age that one was.

Hi we have a picasso 2x group 0 1x high back booster seat. We brought it just before baby 3 was born and love it! The boot is fab as we have a huge side by side pushchair and it fits in easily with space for shopping too!

baby seat is mothercare other 2 britax

Moljam - cool car - if you start driving you can let DH get squeezed in the middle (or alternatively strap the noisiest DC or DH to the roof?? god knows we've been tempted on the way back from Barnstaple today

Oops made a mistake in my earlier post - have just asked DH what car I/we have an it's a Galaxy, not a Focus. I've only had a few glasses of wine, all I know is it's blue!!

ours was about 2001 too, the model's changed shape at least once since then

Oh I'd missed the bit about seats not touching is that true? (rude words coming from me if so)
Bizarre I don't recall reading that anywhere

Expensive NYE this is turning out to be....

I've not read it anywhere either but that is what the RAC / AA person told me.

If you are involved in an accident and the seats are touching they are more likely to be immediately damaged by the impact because they will bang together. Becuase of this they are imediately weakened and thus will not give the protection they should be able to give. Does that make sense??? - the AA guy put it much better but then he wasn't preggers and prob didn't have the headache I have right now . Worse still, the cup holders wouldn't pull out on the stage 3 seat we tried

It also didn't help that the seats I tried wouldn't sit flat due to the slight bucket effect the back seats have.

yeah, we thought we could fit 3 car seats in safely - blimen' expensive DC3!!

That said, if we get a 7 seater this time we will have room for 2 more DCs - although we'll all have to live in the car

lol coby the things we do for cupholders
5 would be fab

pmsl about forkhandles btw - glad you like the Galaxy as we are looking at it's cheaper 'twin' the seat alhambra

Does the Alhambra have sliding back doors? It's the one thing I wish my (ahem) Galaxy had.

No it's pretty much identical to your (ahem) Galaxy . I see the benefit of sliding doors too but the only things that come to mind that have that are Toyota Previa and Chrysler Voyager - not touching either of those errrr...they commonly have 'issues'