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- From: bkb@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (brian.bebeau)
- Subject: Re: What kind of car do you drive/3 kids
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:32:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.133206.19874@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <SKATZ.93Jan21124023@kariba.bbn.com> <1jnd2eINNehf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In article <1jnd2eINNehf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> nola@cats.ucsc.edu (Nola Van Vugt) writes:
- >In article <SKATZ.93Jan21124023@kariba.bbn.com> skatz@bbn.com (Susan Katz) writes:
- >> What kind of car do you drive with 3 kids--all of whom are in car seats?
- >> There will be 2 Fisher Price carseats and a century infant seat
- >> (rear facing). Other car concerns are price and repair record.
- >
- >We bought a 1988 Plymouth (read: Mitsubishi) Colt Vista a year ago
- >and we love it. We spent a long time looking for a used one
-
- Please note that to get the 7-pass Colt Vista, it'll *have* to be a used
- car. They don't make them anymore. We loooked. *Hard*. We wound up buying
- a Pntiac TranSport van. I would not recommend it. I would recommend a van
- though. We have a 7 yr old, a 3 yr old in a car seat, and a 6 mo old in an
- infant seat. No problems with space. My second choice would probably have
- been the Toyota Camry wagon, which comes in either 5 or 7 passenger styles.
- The Pontiac though has ABS brakes standard, where they're a very expensive
- option on the Toyota.
-
- Another car you might check out is the Mitsubishi Expo. They have the
- regular Expo and the Expo LRV. The LRV is only 5 passenger and is what
- they give Plymouth-Dodge-Eagle to sell as the new Colt Vista. The regular
- Expo is a 7 passenger but is only available from Mitsubishi dealers. It
- was pretty nice too, very much half-way between a van and station wagon.
- You won't get much of a deal on it though.
-
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