5. Land Rover Defender 130
Land Rover’s newest large new mannequin must have been a candidate for the highest of this chart; as a result of, whereas it is costly, the automotive’s cleverly configurable inside presents the choice of as many as eight passenger seats.
Buy a longer-wheelbase, five-door Land Rover Defender 110 and the agency will give you a selection of five-, six- or seven passenger seats, whereas the elongated 130 seats eight in a two, three, three formation.
Sadly, for legislative causes, you’ll be able to’t order the latter with the soar seat in between the motive force and entrance seat passenger, which might in any other case have made it a nine-seater (and, within the UK a minimum of, in want of registration as a minibus).
However, that most likely will not cease some folks from retrofitting soar seats to secondhand examples (and even seven-seat 110s) in years to return.
Even with out this as an official possibility, although, this automotive has spectacular versatility. The seven-seat Defender has third-row chairs which can be a little bit smaller than these of the associated Discovery’s, however nonetheless completely usable by kids, youngsters and smaller adults. In the 130 you’ll be able to have all eight on board and nonetheless have a really usable 400-litre boot, though the trade-off is the automotive’s huge 5358mm size that makes it one thing of a squash and a squeeze in most parking areas.
This can be an costly automotive, with even the very most cost-effective five-door passenger-car fashions pushing £50,000 – however, in contrast to the previous Defender, it drives almost in addition to nearly any luxurious SUV of its dimension and sort, has a broad vary of contemporary electrified powertrains, and has off-road functionality to spare.
As an enormous, fascinating household workhorse, you could not ask for significantly better.
