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Parents encouraged to use large 4x4's by the government

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    #31
    Originally posted by bobhope
    Why can't you just bundle 5 kids in the back like in the old days?

    Hope the new kid car seats are better designed though - there must be a better way to buckle kids in - something like those roller coaster bars?
    It's against the law now, another wonderfully thought through law put in by Nu Liebour. Force everybody with kids up to 11 years old to have big bulky child seat forcing parents with large families to buy a bigger car, pay more road tax and more fuel duty and then up fuel duty for these larger cars saying that they want to get them off the roads because they pollute more and are unsafe to pedestrians......

    w**kers

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      #32
      "We've got a Honda FR-V"

      No I think you mean your wife has a Honda. You have a bus don't you?
      Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.

      I preferred version 1!

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        #33
        Originally posted by andrew_neil_uk
        as above, with an average estate (pegeot 406) I can get two booster seats(I mean seats as opposed to cushions) and a class 0 rear facing baby seat.
        What happens when one of those kids gets older and you need 3 of the large style seats......

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          #34
          I have two kids under 20 months and we need as much space as we can possibly get... Two large car seats, either a double buggy or two singles, plus bags full of food and nappies etc... We have an X5 which is pretty big and it's usually jammed full when we all go out...

          The new X5 has 7 seats and the 3.0d does 32.5mpg... there are many regular sized cars that don't get near that.

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            #35
            Originally posted by jdedev

            The new X5 has 7 seats and the 3.0d does 32.5mpg... there are many regular sized cars that don't get near that.
            The Renault Grand Espace has more interior space and does 39MPG

            "Safety should not be forgotten either. The Espace has a 5 Star NCAP Occupant crash safety rating and in an independent test where it was crashed against a Land Rover Discovery II, both the Espace and its occupants fared by far the best."

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              #36
              Also a 5 Series Touring has a larger boot than an X5, it's more economical and costs less. So why go for the big 4x4?
              Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                #37
                Originally posted by jdedev
                I have two kids under 20 months and we need as much space as we can possibly get... Two large car seats, either a double buggy or two singles, plus bags full of food and nappies etc... We have an X5 which is pretty big and it's usually jammed full when we all go out...

                The new X5 has 7 seats and the 3.0d does 32.5mpg... there are many regular sized cars that don't get near that.
                One wonders how my parents managed with a ford cortina, everything must have been so much more compact in the 70s.
                I remember the good old days of this site when people used to moan about serious contractor related issues like house prices and immigration. How times have changed!?

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by Numptycorner
                  One wonders how my parents managed with a ford cortina, everything must have been so much more compact in the 70s.
                  Ford Cortina? You were lucky. There were 18 of us in a Fiat 500.

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by Numptycorner
                    One wonders how my parents managed with a ford cortina, everything must have been so much more compact in the 70s.
                    How many times do we need to say it, in the 70's you didn't have to put a child seat roughly half the size of your rear seat into the car, nowdays you do because of the change in law. It is the fact that you have to shove all kids under 11 (or a certain height) into a child seat that is stopping us from shoving 4 kids in the back now.

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                      #40
                      We used to go 5 up in an MGB, 3 kids sat across the little doorstep back seat.

                      Then it was 5 up in a 2.8 Capri (2 tone paint job and pepperpot wheels ) we were cramped but it was cool at the time.

                      Now my dad has a feckin' gurt Toyota 4x4 for 2 people.
                      Last edited by gingerjedi; 11 June 2007, 15:17.
                      Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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