SUVs

The VW Tiguan Allspace is an occasional seven-seater, has a good-sized boot, fits three child seats across the middle row but the third-row seats are tiny Read More

The seven-seat Mitsubishi Outlander only fits two child seats and has very little boot space unless you just use five seats Read More

The Kia Sportage is an agile family SUV that surprisingly held three child seats and has a good amount of boot space! Read More

The Mazda CX-8 is a practical seven-seater, it will hold five child seats and the boot space and legroom is generous too, making it a great family car. Read More

The ISUZU MU-X is a seven-seat 4WD with three Isofix points and top tethers in the middle row, it fits three child seats across and has good boot space too! Read More

Looks aside, this Subaru Forester is all new! It easily fits three child seats, now has a bigger, easier to use boot, can recognise your face (!), has a great new touchscreen and lots of safety gadgets! Read More

The Lexus LX450D is a massive luxury SUV with only five seats and a huge boot to compensate! Three child seats can fit across the back, two with Isofix. But despite all the luxury it feels like a bit of a farm truck to drive! Read More

The Hyundai Santa Fe is only an occasional seven-seater and more of an everyday five-seater with a nice big boot. Three child seats fit across the second-row seats, but there are no top tethers in the third row so I couldn’t install any child seats there. When using just five seats, the boot is a bit smaller than the Mazda CX-9 and bigger than the Kia Sorento but it’s tiny when using all seven seats. Read More

In the five-seat Nissan X-Trail Ti, legroom is much better than the seven-seat ST-L model I also tried, with plenty of space for tall adults in front of rear-facing child seats, but I could only fit two child seats as it’s not very wide! Boot space is better than the Mazda CX-5, Subaru Forester, Honda CR-V and VW Tiguan Read More

The Infiniti QX80 is the luxury version of a Nissan Patrol, meaning it’s a VERY large seven-seat SUV! I could install four large Britax child seats and with all seven seats up, I managed to fit the huge Mountain Buggy Duet twin stroller and three shopping bags in the boot as well! Read More

Ooh Velar! What a beautiful BabyDrive test car!! The Range Rover Velar was everything I hoped for, fabulous, opulent and luxurious! Apart from the light cream leather seating, it was surprisingly practical too! Read More

This Lexus NX300 looked great with its sparkling pearlescent paint and red leather interior! At a squeeze, I could fit three child seats across too! Boot space was surprisingly good, holding 12 shopping bags when empty and all configurations of tandem and single Britax Flexx strollers fitted with shopping bags alongside Read More

The Lexus RX350L is a seven-seat luxury SUV with four top tethers and Isofix in two of the seats but with child seats installed in the second row, there really wasn’t any legroom in the first and third rows. On the upside, boot space is comparable to a Mazda CX-9 and Nissan Pathfinder, and bigger than a Kia Sorento or Skoda Kodiaq Read More

The Subaru Forester stacked up as a pretty good BabyDrive, and fitted three child seats easily in the back. With rear-facing child seats installed, the legroom was enough for a 184cm driver to sit in front of them. The boot of the Forester didn’t look like it was very big but it was actually quite deceiving! Read More

The BMW X2 is a compact little SUV, and what I really liked about it was that although it is very small, everything in it was very functional. Read More

I went to the Cricks Honda dealership in Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast where they very kindly let me test the Honda HR-V for BabyDrive! Read More

The Jeep Compass Trailhawk is a very cool looking little car! It was smaller than I was expecting but I was looking forward to getting inside it, taking it for a spin and putting it through our BabyDrive testing! Read More

The Mazda CX-9 is a car I have admired for a while, so when I got one to test for BabyDrive I was very excited. And it’s in my favourite colour!! Read More