I was doing a little read up and searching online the other day to see what’s in the market for 7 seater vehicles. These are generally a mix of wagons, suvs, vans and 4WDs.

My budget is generally quite low with up to 40 thousand dollars. I think at 40 thousand dollars, A LOT of 7 seaters are out of the radar.. Vehicles like Toyota Kluger, Honda Oddyssey, Audis, VWs etc… I’ll also leave out the van type or vehicles so people movers are out as well.

So what’s left are the Peugeot 308 Touring, Hyundai Santa Fe (low end model), Holden Captiva (also low end models), Ford (i think), possibly the Dodge 7 seater etc….

My favourite so far is still the Peugeot 308 Touring.. it has really flexible 2nd and 3rd row seat setup (you can almost literally set the config your self.. check out the video) and folds flat!. Also 3rd row airbags that *most* 7 seater do not offer. Fuel efficiency is amazing and handling is good if not better than average. However, the biggest down side to me is the odd and rigid Peugeot driver posture (ie distance of hand to steering versus leg to pedal). Time and time again peugeot drivers tend to complain about the lack of steering wheel telescopic adjustment. It always seems as though peugeot drivers need to either sit really upright or have unusually long arms. Oh well, I’ll confirm that next time if I take one for drive test. I do own a Peugeot 206 and it has that unusual downside tooo…

Next on my list now seems to be the Hyundai Santa Fe. It is an old model about to be replace by some IX model which is more expansive. So far the reviews are good.

Omitted Gold wagon as I forgot it doesn’t offer 7 seats!

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