3 car seats in a Toyota Avensis?

gifted wrote: »

Hi Folks,

Well, we went looking today and it is possible to get 3 child seats into the back of the Avensis. One for the 3 year old on the outside, one for the 19 month old on the other side and the newborn in the middle facing the back window...:D.
The car seats were a tight fit and we would need seat belt extensions for one of the seats but there was no question of buckle crunch. The downside to all of that though is that once the seats are in place, they have to be left in place. It would be way to awkward to be removing the middle baby seat all the time, so we would have to have a seperate baby carrier and transfer the baby into and out of the baby seat thats already fitted in the car ( sorry if that sounds confusing )
Also, one of the children on the outside would have to be out of their seat while we are putting the baby into the middle seat ( problem there straight away )
The extra baby carrier would have to be in the boot all the time so thats a third of the boot gone.
While it is physically possible to have the 3 seats in the Avensis, their seems to be way too many negatives with it so we have decided to go with a people carrier ( Bawling out side baby shop I was )
Herself then told me that as we are getting a people carrier we might as well go for a fourth child ( the Bawling got louder and felt shooting pains in my chest area :eek:)
So thanks for all your advice, really appreciated it .

PS. The shop assistant in the baby shop in Galway was really great, he came out to the car with a lot of baby seats and tried every combo to see if it would work.