Rear Seat Space

rin2809

Active member
This may be a silly question, but which takes up more space: a car seat or an average adult?

We are starting to think about replacing one of our vehicles and one of my stipulations is that we be able to at least fit one more person in the vehicle with us. We have 2 kids and right now their seats take up so much of the seat that there is no chance of fitting an adult in there. So I am trying to gauge if we need a minivan or 3rd row SUV to make this work, or if I can keep an eye out for any vehicle that others have been able to fit 3 car seats in assuming that an adult would be able to fit back there with the two car seats.

Hope that makes sense.
 
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jjordan

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Nearly any vehicle can fit 2 car seats and an average adult, or 3 car seats, in the back. The trick is finding car seats that will work for that situation. Exceptions would be cars like the 5-passenger) Toyota Rav4, whose back row seat belts have significant overlap and make it impossible to safely restrain 3 back seat passengers, and of course cars that have only 2 back seat belts to begin with. That said, 7-8 passenger vehicles definitely open up more options, and most families that I've seen whose primary vehicle carries 5 people on a regular basis do have a larger vehicle.
 

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