What's the best family SUV? (Q&A) | Auto Expert John Cadogan 

Sounds like India.

England? I liked driving there, go fast in the right lane, someone goes faster they flash, you moved over. I Australia, you flash, people slow down trying to police you. I know what I like.

"The IQ is inversely proportional to the number of honks or flashes." Cracks me up because just this morning I got flashed and flipped off by a cranky motorist as he sped past me who didn't like that I wouldn't speed for him while we were in an average-speed camera monitored zone.

And leave a passenger at the roadside. Ha ha ha!

So he was that precious with that tire you were made to baby wrap it in comfort but he allowed it to be drivin on road where dog and birds crap all over and used by the homeless?.

Glad you liked it, John

Yes, definitely a cheaper cost saving exercise. What I'm curious about is that once you change your flat tyre, where do you put the full size flat? If the space saver storage area has room for the full size flat, why not just put a full size spare there? The flat tyre doesn't take up less space.

@@Wdeane1957 You put the filthy brake dust coated flat wheel on your wifes lap, obviously.

@@Wdeane1957 this is why instead of a minivan u get a 7 seater suv, the spare just goes below the back area of the chassis. yea the 7 seater suv format costs more but like William said....

Could be more to do with the engine size and the fact that it was aftermarket cruise rather than any shortcomings in the technology. A manual Jazz was underpowered to begin with.

@@jeremybean-hodges6397 Mine was a 1.5 mate. My sister has a Vibe. 1.3 and it is underpowered.

If you’re using the 3rd row everyday a Carnival or Palisade is better. I used to have a Chrysler Grand Voyager for our family when we’d often travel all together. It was very comfortable and easy to get in and out of for the kids. Having to slide seats forward and back constantly is not fun. I have a Kia Sorento now and seldom have to use the 3rd row. It’s handy to have but I have to take nearly everything out of my boot area to put the 3rd row seats up.

@@catk9685 thanks for the reply. I would love a palisade but can’t afford. I might go for a 2019 diesel carnival instead.

@@deedarli you should definitely have a look at Carnival I drove a rental one for week 6 up and it was super comfy, easy to drive and really roomy.

No it wouldn't, as a child in a family of 6, we had a van, climbing over seats isn't fun.

Is that like "everyone thinks i was the best president "? Never heard a good word about cupra

Aren't they just those cheap VWs that Seat make?

Don't you have Google and a calculator?

@@AutoExpertJC they will no doubt give me some figures to work with but I’d love to see them attack Mt Ousley with the family on the way back from a long weekend.

Back in the 80's-90's, many families used forward control vans to pack the kids in; and way back in the day, excess kids got packed into the luggage area of the family wagon.

@@petesmitt fair - but that’s not just about room, that’s about safety

mildly enthusiastic, 2? that's cute. had you said 5 or more then that's a different storey. it's no wonder 7 seater offerings are harder and harder to come by each year because nobody is breeding for whatever reason. I had to pick between a 70,000km 2016 ford everest and a toyota 100,000km fortuner with the fortuner costing significantly more but being less aesthetic with less features and less space in the third row, and isofix doesn't exist for all of the second and third row, which it does in the ford everest, all seats have it except the two front seats of course. granted, im expecting the everest to start having transmissions problems for whatever reason due to design flaws so I have money and parts(solenoids etc) literally put aside on standby for if/when that happens. the truth of the matter is there aren't much breeder buses out there and the ones which exists are of the minivan type. they're ugly and underwhelming along with feeling and being exposed on the road, the only upside to them is that they're much cheaper.

@@theinvisibleman6147 to be fair, after 40 years of flatlining wages and astronomical house prices, 5 is EXTREMELY enthusiastic…

@@jeremybean-hodges6397 not really. people's ideas of what is a need vs a want is what's changed the most over the last 40 years. the need to impress neighbors and friends so you have to give your kid the best of the best, that means the best schools (public or private) the best Christmas and birthday gifts etc. pile that on with most of the women out here who are high maintainance and give nothing of value in return( ie kids, sometimes not even 1). pile that on with people being too busy trying to keep up with their neighbors or friends economically or putting up appearances(the rat race), meaning more money actually goes into needless accoutrements and trinkets overtime, money that could of gone into kids. the cost of living is a minor, I repeat, a minor factor contributing to the amount of kids people choose to have. it's primarily because people's minds are busy with other stuff, wether it's work, flexing or some other thing that's meaningless(not real, contrived). That's the thing nobody wants to address or talk about in detail. there are people doing it, therefore it can be done, all it takes is healthy mindset and someone else with the same. it takes two hands to clap. I've done it and been doing it (on my 5th) for what will be 6 years now come end of year. I'm not rich and neither is the missus, we wanted the same thing and we just pooled what resources we had and got to it like rabbits. People overthink too much or find alot of stuff to be distracted by so they don't bother having as much kids if any. We live in a 3 bed 1200 sq house with two bathrooms :/ built on 5000sq ft and will be paid for in 15 years time after taking out the mortgage 5 years ago, by then I'll be 45, she'll be 35. I work in the IT public sector while doing contracts on the side if/when called, she runs a bakery. My mother helps with the kids on weekends so we both get a break. It can and has been done no matter how trying times get, both partners have to be willing for it to be done. when the will is there, everything else literally becomes a non issue. sorry for the semi rant but I try to shut rhetoric like yours down every time I see it, I can't resist xD

Anything that weighs over 3 ton stock.

guaranteed rust bucket?

@@anthonyadverse4449 had mine 2 years, no rust plus made in the same factory as MG, not sure shit Australia aftersales service from a CG dealer warrants a tainted brush over the whole brand

@@anthonyadverse4449 Only if you drive it to work at the beach every day.

@@RadRoadAdventures MG passenger cars are technically made in a separate factory to LDV commercials (which includes D90)

The Mitsubishi CVT has the ‘gear stepping’ as an ‘opt-in’ rather than an ‘opt-out’ kind of thing. Just put it in D and it will do its thing until you over-ride it with the steering wheel shift paddles or whatever a given model uses.

@@stevel2335 thanks Steve.

there's also the ford everest, the toyota fortuner and the isuzu m-ux yea I know all three have their problems but they're alternative branches away from the low minivan format that's out there.

and you paid it and will pay it again. play stupid games, win stupid prizes, thanks for playing.

It's one more than Africa....

@@JamesSmith-qs4hx Haha

The Bee Gees, Masters Apprentices, Cold Chisel, INXS, Divinyls, Easybeats, LRB, Skyhooks, Icehouse, Midnight Oil, Superjesus, Baby Animals, and many more I am sure I have missed, might tend to disagree.

Airbourne, Divinyls, Inxs, Python Lee Jackson :-)

​@@JamesSmith-qs4hx Apart from the proven fact that all mankind is descended from the first humans who first appeared in Africa :-)

Thank you xxx

U just wait till it disintegrates on the highways n byways then dealerships do a disappearing act never seen again.

@@conmanumber1 unlike Holden bud I doubt it.

@@conmanumber1 Scare tactics much? So much for statements based on facts!

The next Triton will be just that, a Triton. Mitsubishi is now building the platform for both the Triton and Navara.

Yep. I agree. Love mitsi’s and have had a number of them. Great vehicles. Had a Nissan or two but never, ever, ever again.

You would need to be a lawyer to buy one of those, talking of sadomasochism...

It seems to be a race between close to 9 billion people destroying the best parts of their environment, and getting that 1 in a million that invents something that helps. My vote for best inventions are the condom and birth control pills, especially for less than average people just smart enough to know they suck at raising children properly, mentally and economically.

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