Does anyone have a Kia Carens?
Is it reliable?
Is the 7 year warranty watertight?
Is it cheapish to run?
Can you get 3 booster seats across the back?
Is the boot decent if you have the rear seats (seats 6 and 7) and fold them down?
Are the 2 foldable rear seats decent or teeny?
Any alternative suggestions?
DH is keen and wants to order one from a discount source (new import) without seeing one "in the flesh" - we don't have a Kia dealer anywhere local though there is a VW dealer who services Kias, so that would be fine.
Have 3 kids of my own so proper 5 seater absolutely essential, but also fairly often ferry extra kids about (in return for a rough equivalent of returned favours) so 7 seats very useful.
My current car was, on balance, a mistake/ poor choice and I don't want to get railroaded into getting another dud just because (again) it is cheap for a 7 seater and (in this case) the warrenty is a massive incentive (have had very costly repair bills for my current 5 year old car, which is now costing €2k to get through MOT equivalent! 
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I do about 20k kilometers a year, mostly short drives (unavoidable due to rural location miles from even a village shop, school or non-school bus bus stop, and 3 kids at 3 different schools with different after school commitments and buses running only straight after the main school day finishes, and in different clubs etc. etc) though also a very long drive of several hundred or a thousand km each way once or twice a year and quite a lot of 100-120 round trip km drives in the mix . This appears to have caused my current car to fall apart in 5 years of use! Do not want this happening again in such a short time!
Would really appreciate any feedback.