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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you shopping for a car anyway?

Agree with those who say wait and see if you have a third kid or until your kids are school aged and you think you'll be a carpooling family.

We traded in our SUV within a couple of weeks of having baby#3--my oldest was in first grade and having all three in one row wasn't going to work--and with an infant and a toddler in carseats it was too hard for him to get in and out of the third row.  With the minivan he could easily get from back to front, my toddler wasn't poking big brother or baby sister, and I could control the doors from the driver's seat.

Now my kids are 13, 8 and 6 and the minivan is great for carpooling--my older two each have 3x/week sports practice and we only drive each once because we carpool with two other families on each team.  On road trips everyone has plenty of space and the dog fits too.

I had a highlander for a month last summer and it was a pain--difficult to access the third row, absolutely no leg room back there so my oldest and his friends couldn't sit there, and with the third row in use there wasn't even room for groceries in back much less a trip to Costco or a weekend away. [/quote]

OP here-- we are potentially looking for a third car to be used by our nanny during the week, since we feel we can't reasonably ask her to keep two car seats installed in her sedan (she has kids of her own).  As a result, our options are really wide open-- we just need something reliable and safe. DH likes the idea of having a minivan available for those rare times we need it; I'm not convinced those times will ever occur. A third row could be useful for the 1-2x a year we have out of town guests, but I'm not particularly inclined to make a decision based on a use case that is the exception not the rule.[/quote]

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