Looking for SUV for 6 Adults

[neilbrunton]

I am looking for an SUV for next summer to hold 6 adults and some luggage. We won't go mad with the luggage and will prob only bring one large bag per couple. Will a 7 Seater SUV be big enough or will will need an 8 seater. There is a huge price difference between the 7 and 8 seater (£300 diff for 2 weeks).

[cash]

Hi Neil,

You say you are looking for a 6 seater SUV but I assume you mean a people carrier as Im not aware of a 6 seater SUV, the biggest SUV I have hired was a Surberban which was huge but only a 5 seater.

If there will be 6 of you then a 7 seater will be fine especially if your not bringing much luggage.

[CERICROWLEY]

I have had a suburban and it did have 7 seats, the last row will fold down flat. I have normally had a tahoe when we have hired a 7 seater SUV. If you want a larger car then it will be a minivan not an SUV. The hardest thing will be the luggage run as with the back seats up for occupants, the back is about the same size a good sized normal SUV,but they do have very square backs, and you may not see a lot out of the window, but for just a one trip back and forth you could be fine. You will have to flip the back passenger seat up and down to use the far back row. but it easy.

[neilbrunton]

Hi Neil,

You say you are looking for a 6 seater SUV but I assume you mean a people carrier as Im not aware of a 6 seater SUV, the biggest SUV I have hired was a Surberban which was huge but only a 5 seater.

If there will be 6 of you then a 7 seater will be fine especially if your not bringing much luggage.

Florida Car hire have a number of large SUV quoted on their site.

Luxury SUV (7 seats) Alamo / National: Cadillac Escalade, Lincoln Navigator
Premium SUV (8 seats) Alamo / National: Chevrolet Suburban, GMC Yukon XL
7 Seater 4x4 / SUV Dollar: Dodge Durango / Chrysler Aspen or similar Alamo / National: Chevrolet Tahoe or similar

Ideally we would want one that can have access to both rows of seats without having to climb over or flatten the middle row.

Neil

[CERICROWLEY]

Coem to think of it, there are 3 far back seats in the tahoe, 3 back seats and then 2 front seats.

I did have one car a number of years ago, that had three seats in the front. Not sure they do them any more.

So although they say 7 seater, I suppose it is a 8 seater really, maybe they call it 7 passenger seats.

I have had Tahoe, Aspen.Durango. all fullsize SUV's with two rows of seats for three each.

[Dads_Taxi]

I am looking for an SUV for next summer to hold 6 adults and some luggage. We won't go mad with the luggage and will prob only bring one large bag per couple. Will a 7 Seater SUV be big enough or will will need an 8 seater. There is a huge price difference between the 7 and 8 seater (£300 diff for 2 weeks).

Neil, I agree with other comments, the 7 seater will be fine. We hired the 7 seater SUV from this site last year and had a lovely Buick Enclave, it was ideal for 6 of us and we had LOADS of luggage!

[caroline]

I'm not sure about the 8 seater SUV's but we've hired quite a few 7 seater SUV's. We've had 2 seats in the front, then a row of 3 then a row of 2, however that back row is really uncomfortable for an adult as there is no drop down for your legs. We've only ever hired them for 5 of us so we always drop the back 2 seats down to make room for our luggage. For 6 adults I think you'd be more comfortable in a 7 seater minivan.