The 5008 is a 7 seater, and with the 3rd row seats folded the boot is pretty huge. For the original MPV version it was 680 litres in 5 seat mode, on the current SUV version it is 780 litres. Difficult to think of many situations where that wouldn't be enough, so presumably she needs 7 seats?

We'd also need a budget in order to offer up appropriate suggestions.

Edited by DavidGlos on 19/04/2023 at 06:49

Looking on Autotrader, it seems that family sized vehicles under 10 years old are either diesels or have small capacity turbocharged petrol engines some with only 3 cylinders. Exception being the Mazda CX5. Are most of these small petrol engines bad?

Edited by martin.mc on 20/04/2023 at 06:12

I was thinking of SLO76's comment that he would avoid most of the modern small capacity turbocharged petrol engines.Nothind against them personally. What do members think of the Vauxhall Grandland X with the 1.2 engine?

Edited by martin.mc on 20/04/2023 at 08:30

Had quite a few diesel cars since the early 1990s starting with a Cavalier Estate (1.6 non turbo). Citroen BXs, Xantia, VW Passat, Xsara Picasso, Freelander TD4, even a Hyundai Getz. All did well over 100K without any engine troubles. The last one was a 2016 Sandero Stepway with the 1.5dCi engine. No AdBlue and covered 60K miles in five years trouble free. My daughter's 2015 Peugeot has had two expensive failures to do with the AdBlue system, so any money saved on fuel has been spent on repairs. This has put me off buying a new diesel, they all seem to use AdBlue now.