living with that boot?

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...and I was hoping you were going to say "I wish we had have bought the Forester"

[IGW84]

Forrester fails on the comfortable middle rear seat - as do most cars these days actually. They have these silly raised sections and very uncomfortable back rests (padding insufficient to soften the fold down armrest mechanism). Also worse fuel economy/CO2 stats.

Tig was the best we found for rear middle seat comfort out of these oilers:
Skoda, Grand Vitara, X-trail
plus a bunch of petrols such as the Kleuger and Captiva class vehicles (which are bigger and poor fuel economy).

We were considering having a custom rear seat made up (or the standard rear seat reupholstered) on the Vitara. But it was no where near as refined on the road and in the cabin as the Tig.

The new Renault Koleos looks interesting as the Megane middle rear seat was excellent and so maybe this has carried over. It wasn't released when we were buying middle of last year. Has anyone done a good comaprison against the Tig?

I suspect we are in the very big minority with middle rear seat comfort being a principal buying decision.

Ian

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The new Renault Koleos looks interesting

I haven't, but brother drove one. Didn't mind it for a family car, but preferred the Tig. They are cheaper (but also have Nissan running gear?).

[Sharkie]

I suspect we are in the very big minority with middle rear seat comfort being a principal buying decision.

Ian

It was the deciding factor for my wife. Most other SUV's have uncomfortable middle rear seats and little legroom in the center with all kinds of intrusions.

Could have gone for something with 7 seats, but I'd have no joy driving that.

[DFRDB4ME]

Thank you everyone for your input especially Ian...
The size did get the better of us... We are now looking at the Triton GLX-R.
The main reasons are … yes that boot, the 100kg down force on the tow and the limited off roadability.
I will miss the dive though.. I’ll just have to steal the Golf V Tdi from the wife for my fix…
Once again, thanks.

[Philbie]

we have two kids and a tiguan...bottom line is it's bloody brilliant in comfort but the boots too small.

We also own a rav4 - BIG difference in cars, i hate driving the rav after the tiguan. But our stuff fits in the boot!

Anyway, now i'm selling the Rav4 as we replaced it with a Nissan Navara. Seriously large boot in it! when you add a canopy.

Oops i'm waffling....Nothing will be as good as the tiguan, not even a toureg (I've had one of those too) but think about a pod for the roof if you do.