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family car|Essential Guide on Buying the Best Family Car
Whether you’re looking to buy your first roomy car or need to purchase a bigger vehicle for your growing family, the huge range of choices currently available on the marketplace make shopping around a daunting task.
From helping you to decide what model will be most suitable, to the key safety features to look out for, the following guide gives you the top tips on finding the best family car for your needs.
Clarifying Your Requirements
Your first step when looking to buy a new family car is to keep your eyes open on the road for vehicles that appeal to you, plus be sure to get lots of opinions from your friends and family.
Next, you’ll have to decide which type of model will best suit your needs and preferences – such as whether you want a hatchback, people mover, station wagon, SUV, sedan or a sports car. My article titled ‘Easy Guide to Understanding Car Categories and Body Styles’ gives a clear and simple outline of what these terms mean.
Thirdly, it’s an important factor in streamlining your buying options to know your budget limitations.
Then, make sure you do your research online to investigate your feature preferences, such as comfort, fuel economy, storage and safety. Also look at the RRP (recommended retail price) of various models and bear in mind that the final selling price can be negotiable.
Important Car Features Let’s look more closely at the features to look out for in a suitable and reliable family car:
Vehicle Size
When deciding how big your car needs to be, consider how many children you’re planning to have and over what time period. Most people generally tend to keep their cars for 5 years, so the size needs to accommodate your family for at least that long.
Another important factor is that you feel comfortable in the driver’s seat and have good visibility out of the front, side and rear windows. Also try reverse parking and parking it in a shopping centre car park – going from a small hatch to an SUV or station wagon can be a major change, which some people are not comfortable with on a daily basis.
Storage
Boot space is important for such family essential as transportation of a baby pram and luggage for holiday breaks.
Storage compartments are also key as there can never be too many places to pack things when children are involved. These would include drink holders, a place for spare nappies or wipes and pockets for your kid’s books and games.
Safety
The main safety features to consider in a family car are:
Child Locks on all doors and windows.
Seat Belts – make sure the number of seat belts in the car match your needs and that they are all 3 point seatbelts i.e. some vehicles still have a lap seatbelt in the centre rear seat, which is not ideal.
Airbags – ideally you should have front, side, knee and curtain airbags.
Anti Lock Braking System (ABS) – this helps a car to stop sooner and gives you some driving control under heavy braking conditions.
Electronic Stability Program (ESP) – this senses when the car is “out of control” during heavy cornering and helps to correct its direction.
Cargo Barrier or Net¬ – this helps to prevent items in the boot of a station wagon or SUV from dangerously flying forward while driving.
Reverse Parking Sensors – these issue an audible sound when reversing if there is something behind the car.
Reverse Parking Camera – mounted on the back of the car, these show you via a screen in your front dashboard what is behind the car.
Safety considerations can even impact the colour of the car that you choose – for example research has shown that your will be less likely to have an accident in a white car than other car colours, and the least safe colour to be driving around in black or other dark colours, since to the eye they blend with the road which decreases visibility.
Child Seat Anchor Points
Most family cars will have 3 child seat anchorage points, with some having up to 5. Check where these are located so that they match your preferences – some are placed towards the back of the boot resulting in the seat straps interfering with the car’s boot space.
Conclusion
Finding the best family car doesn’t have to be troublesome if you do your research on the available models that will suit your budget and lifestyle, plus keep a sharp eye out for the vehicle features that you find most important.
@drezzyk What changes in the production of Turkey? You speak very retard!!!
The Insignia really is a great car!
VDUBB FOR LIFE.
you are so stupid, the ford is better than a vw passat??? you should explore more the vw passat, the new ford mondeo is made in turkie, and vw passat is made in germany, i think is a big difference between this two cars, stupid gay ….
passat does not win…MONDEO wins! anyway, this is irrelevant…what it’s really true and I know it because I’m driving one, is that Ford Mondeo is an amazing car! absolutely amazing! Mondeo has the looks, has a great engine, great comfort…just feeling the difference!
Vauxhall= Opel
Passat Wiins !
OMG! vw passat is the best!!!!!!!
Ford Ford Ford Forever
Now all we need is a car that has VW image, Vauxhall’s interior and Ford’s practicality and driving dynamics. Hmmmm, If only . . .
@Schuluskus And that’s why Ford’s residuals are stronger than VW? Watch the video again and listen to Mat- VW has the stronger image overall so it goes beyond the car.
The Passat is a lot more refined than both the Mondeo and Insignia.
Bear in mind that both Ford and Vx inflate list prices i.e. you will work out of a Ford or Vx showroom paying quite a bit less than you would for an equivilent Passat.
VW don’t really negotiate prices.
@Skoshy I agree, he is a great reviewer. Name is Mat Watson his facebook page is by the same name.
On these UK auto shows ie Top Gear, Fifth Gear its always raining
@Zlyzer
I’m a Fordie, but I’d have to agree with you. Ford service is the same in NZ too. C’mon Ford provide the service to compliment your great new cars!
@derbigpr500 do you work for peugeot by any chance, it doesn’t matter if on paper they are better, it’s still french which means it will inevitably break..
@JELH I’d put it like that probably as well. I like the Insignia , its has the best interior of the 3 in this video, best engines, and feels like a more expensive car. Passat is just below average today. Mondeo is very cheaply built inside, and Mazda is typically japanese, drives good, looks good on outside, but interior is filled with plastic and designed in 10 mins.
@derbigpr500 Yeah!
Lol! Now, seriously, in my opinion: Insignia > Passat > Mazda 6 > Mondeo (too expensive, the eco version is hopeless and the interior looks outdated).
@derbigpr500 And at the end, Peugeot has the best built interior, has great engines (developed together with bmw), best comfort/handling combination in class (feels like Audi A4, while being more comfortable and smooth), loads of room inside, loads of equipment….etc etc…its just feels like a far better car than almost anything in class. Passat literally looks like crap next to it, especially if we look at interiors. I think that 508 is a proper premium car to be compared with A4 and BMW3.
@derbigpr500 Ford Mondeo and Mazda 6 drive best, but they have pretty cheap interiors, Honda Accord drives pretty good, has great interior, but it has very little room inside and it has no turbo-charged engines to compete with other. Opel Insignia is very comfortable and quiet, has great engines and drives pretty good, but interior quality is not up there with the best. Citroen C5 is BY FAR the most quiet, comfortable and pleasant to drive, with great interior, but its not very sporty.
Currently in class:
- Peugoet 508
- Citroen C5
- Opel Insignia or Ford Mondeo
- Honda Accord
- Mazda 6
- VW Passat or Toyota Avensis
Passat is just too old to compete with any of newer cars in class, and Peugeot 508 and Citroen C5 are just too good to be beaten by any of the cars in class. They are by far the most comfortable, have by far the best interiors (especially 508), handle great (especially 508), have great engines, best equipment and overall feel like better cars than others.
@JELH Mazda 6 beats any of these? In terms of what? The quantity of cheap plastic inside?
Passat feels very cheep and old inside. Its the worst car of the three, and its the oldest.
i’d get the vw anyday – vw FTW
Opel is for pussys !!!