Fiat Multipla

[kando]

Do any of you wise mn-ers have any good/bad comments on this car? It's the odd looking one which seats 6 people (3 separate seats in the front and the back, middle seat in both rows folds away). Have 2 kids at the moment but ideally would like 3, so with a view to our present car not being big enough to take 3 kids in the back, what do you think of the Multipla?

We looked at this car, but decided against it as the boot isn't that big. We have a dog and wanted space for a dog and a pram, and this would have been one without the other. Ended up with a Citroen Xara Picasso (boring I know) which will seat 3 child seats if necessary if the back. Or one adult comfortable between 2 seats. Our 5 yr old is in a simple booster seat no and we could fit one of these, a lightweight 2nd stage seat (booster style with a back) and a baby seat.

Ooh, I don't think the Citroen is boring at all! In fact I hope we will buy one on Saturday (second hand). How do you find it? I am v excited.
Have a friend who loves her Multipla more than her children But dh won't consider it because he says it is ugly. It's won lots of awards, I think.

think of parking - it is quite wide

Its lovely inside
the engines are quite small

aloha, we do like our car, had a scenic before and there are some things I liked better about the scenic and some things I like better about the picasso. We bought ours nearly 2 ysa ago 2nd hand - it was a yr old diesl with 30,000 miles on the clock, so we got a good price. I was made redundant so we used all my pay off, as we had had nice company cars before and wanted a nearly new car if poss. We have had no problems with it, fuel ecomomy is brilliant, space inside is great, but it feels a bit light and plasicky at times. The Multipla was great inside, but a pig to park - too wide for a lot of supermarket car park spaces so you have to park miles away, and the boot was too small. I am happy with the Picasso, and we are planning to keep it until it dies as we can't afford another car.

We went to ireland for new year and my cousin had one Full of kids v comfy and spacious!

Do you know if it rates well on safety? The scenic was our alternative choice but we think the Picasso looks nicer and seems to have a little more room inside.

The Scenic 7 seater is just arriving on forecourts over here. Not sure whether/when it will reach UK yet.

What about a Zafira - they are lovely - my friend has one - I think nicer than the picassos - but then my x2b has one of those so that taints my view!!!

My childminder has a megane and she raves about it too!!

i do too

Zafira is a bit bigger than the Picasso I think - we don't need seven seats. Am I wrong? Coddy, what do you have?

Don't think any bigger in actual dimensions with regards to parking and you can take seats out or fold them down to have more room in rest of the car!!

Zafira is much bigger in terms of driving than the picasso. We test drove it and personally thought it was expensive and a bit of a tank. I prefered the Picasso. In safety terms the scenic is better - renaults do very well on this - but we found a better deal for a picasso.

Aloha the picasso is certainly bigger inside, you cannot fit 2 car seats and and adult comfortably in the back of a scenic. You can in a Picasso. Like I said it's negative points are it is a little plastiky, everyone has one and the visibility for parking is shite.

Oops, my parking skills are v poor. Never mind. I actually like the way Picassos look but am reassure they are bigger than Scenics but not too tank like to drive. We hired a Zafira for a holiday recentlly and liked it but it seemed really big and scary to drive (not v feminist thing to say, I know). Thanks all for comments!

I've heard the multipla is good but it is the ugliest car in the history of cars!

crunchie

Sorry to disagree, but I've travelled pretty comfortably between 2 car seats (2nd stage and booster seat or infant and second stage) in rear of our Scenic !

Lizs OK your bum must be smaller than mine!!!

the zafiras usp is the 7 seats

it is fantastic if you and another mUm go out ona trip

wouldnt say thre car looks great but drives nippilt and is very versatile

am on my second multipla - totally love them. Yeah they look wierd but you don't see it when you are inside. Also had a scenic and hated it. I'm crap at parking but they multipla is 'easy' as you are higher and there is so much glass that the visibility is great.

lol Crunchie

Thanks for the replies ladies. So the general concensus seems to be it's a good car, if a little on the ugly side(!), but on the down side, it's a bit wide for normal parking spaces. Oh well, I'm rubbish at parking anyway ...! Think we may take one out for a test drive and see how it "feels".

I looked at it earlier this year but didn't like the middle seat in the front - much too close to the controls (so I bought the Uylesse instead)

kando, we test drove one a few years ago and loved it. The diesel was a bit sluggish. I even think it looks good (as my mother quotes me in latin,....no accounting for taste). In the end we needed more than 6 seats (had another child) and decided that it was a tad too wide for london and all the width restrictions and tight supermarket parking. Otherwise, when I researched it (including stopping people at lights as asking what they thought), everyone who had one, loved it.

OMG - we bought one today. I am so excited as I have wanted one for a couple of years. We can pick it up on Saturday. btw I love the fact it is a bit quirky:0

I like them to because they're quirky also really good visibility. Went in a taxi one in Rome and was really excited (sad). A friend with 4 kids has one and loves it.