[sportutegrl]

Until people realize that driving an SUV with 1 or 2 people in it is not exactly "fuel efficient", gas prices will continue to remain high.

How about until car manufacturers design a car that can legally carry 4 or 5 children on one row of seat. With parents having greater than twin multiples and carpooling, 4 and 5 children in a car and in carseats is not uncommon. Yet Detroit continues to design cars that can hold a max of 4 adults and even fewer children, since kids can't ride in the front. A tiny subcompact should be able to be easily modified to carry 6 kids in specially designed carseats. (Think optional specially designed modular back seats.) It has the room and can easily carry this payload. Where is this car?

[Hoboto]

How about until car manufacturers design a car that can legally carry 4 or 5 children on one row of seat. With parents having greater than twin multiples and carpooling, 4 and 5 children in a car and in carseats is not uncommon. Yet Detroit continues to design cars that can hold a max of 4 adults and even fewer children, since kids can't ride in the front. A tiny subcompact should be able to be easily modified to carry 6 kids in specially designed carseats. (Think optional specially designed modular back seats.) It has the room and can easily carry this payload. Where is this car?

Dozens of 4 and 6-cylinder minivans and wagons to choose from.

Geez....how did we ever survive without SUV's??!! ;-)

[Fishrrman]

sportutegrl wrote:
How about until car manufacturers design a car that can legally carry 4 or 5 children on one row of seat. With parents having greater than twin multiples and carpooling, 4 and 5 children in a car and in carseats is not uncommon. Yet Detroit continues to design cars that can hold a max of 4 adults and even fewer children, since kids can't ride in the front

Perhaps a much easier solution would be to repeal _all_ laws and regulations that ban young children from the front seat. The result would be that mothers with several children wouldn't _need_ a multi-seat vehicle in which to get around.

- John