Crew cab van for family of 6

Just to avoid confusion - thats a mini bus,not a crew cab. 8 passenger seats instead of 6. Might be a better option with a 2 year nct instead of a yearly cvrt. Not getting dragged into the commercial tax & business use mess either.

No vat reclaim

bench seats in the front can be very tight.
it’s uncomfortable for driving any distance, person in the middle is too tight to the driver and not much leg room due to how the centre consoles are usually built, as the kids grow this might become a bigger issue.
can see the attraction though but 6 might be a bit of a squish.

Will it be your only car? Cos with that many people and bikes maybe you could bring your normal car and then buy something for the bikes/luggage ...like a small van plus u can fit another person. Could be cheaper...just a thought.

Realistically you're probably looking at a 7 seater with some on the roof and some on the trailer. I carry 4 on the roof regularly, putting the kids bikes on the inside. Takes about 10 mins to load once your used to it. Then the remainder on the back. Even a crewcab would be tight with 6 bikes in the back I'd say…along with helmets etc

Crew Cab vans are like gold dust now. Classification changed a few years ago and they are now subject to VRT based on the same criteria as passenger vehicles. As that is Co2 based and emissions tend to be quite high on vans, the VRT is ludicrous.

Ford have released some PHEV Crew Vans in the past couple of years, which start from €55,000 ish and hopefully that lower price will start to have knock on effect on all pricing. It looks like the cheapest new Diesel Crew Van is the Renault Trafic 110hp which starts from €70,345!

As it's quiet in work today, it got through the first 15 pages of DoneDeal commercials and only found one half decent option.

https://www.donedeal.ie/commercials-for-sale/absolutely-immaculate-2012-crew-cab/41179017

For the mileage, condition and being a crew cab, that is great value for money. As it's the LWB version a bike might just about go straight in the load area - hard to tell how long it is from the picture.

I don't have a single Vivaro/Trafic/Primastar product guide saved, but do have one for a 2019 Transit Custom. Most of the different vans are very similar dimensions, and the usable load length in a LWB Transit Custom Crew Cab, at 1.2 m high, is 1,872mm. I'd say a 2012 Vivaro shoul have around 6ft as well, and if you can nose the bikes straight in, you've a chance of fitting them all in.

They had a PV5 at the Nevo show last month. Looks like it's going to be a great option for a lot of people, but I don't think that boot is going to be big enough to take all the bikes, with 5 seats in place.

I wouldn't dream of doing it myself! I googled it and got talking to vanconversions ni and he gave me a price to do the work