Your thoughts or opinion needed

[firechiken]

Due to what might be an addition to the family, I've been looking for a 7 passenger vehicle. I don't want to go the minivan route, so I've been looking at SUVs, and yes, station wagons. I've found some, what I think are, good deals on Land Rover Discoveries in the 1999-2003 range. Anyone have any experiences with these, or heard anything about them, good or bad? If I can find a Trailblazer in the same price range, which seems impossible, I would consider that too. Right now it seems to be either the Range Rover or a Volvo wagon. I wouldn't mind a Caprice wagon, but the wife says no way. Any suggestions?

[patgizz]

get a new wife and a caprice/roadmonster wagon.

[Doubt_Incarnate]

the ford freestyle looks good to me, and i think you can get it awd, but if your looking for used, but not a minivan, and it can hold 7... then your looking at a gas sucking suv. maybe you could get a base freestyle for not a whole lot. or a 99 or so expedition, but that would get like 20 on the highway.

[geoffinbc]

ASTRO!

Yea its a van. But its sweet.

Or what about a youkon/tahoe

[RednBlack]

It's Friday night..Here is what I would buy.

[vsop4me3.1]

I'd go for a volvo turbo wagon. I don't know why but I really like the old box volvos

[Doubt_Incarnate]

that is one of the coolest wagons, i've ever seen

[firechiken]

Wasn't even thinking of a yukon/tahoe, that's another one I can look at. No one's had any experience with the Range Rover though? I have a thing for British cars. I didn't think the Freestyle came with a third seat, going to have to look into that. There's a kid around here driving a Cutlass Cruiser like that, yellow with old school mags, dual exhaust, really done right, and I swear it is the coolest looking thing around.

[RednBlack]

Range Rover does rock. Not cheap at all. You will need Spanners and learn how to get in the "boot". (Then you have to buy "Petrol").

[Kyles93Z34]

Dodge Magnum. Get a Hemi with it to so you can have some fun and haul the whole family around to. I think it will hold seven but i'm not sure. They start around 30k with the Hemi or if your really interested get the Srt-6 version coming out soon.

Kyle

[firechiken]

Not a real big fan of the magnum, and I don't think it comes with the third seat.

[sharkey]

rovers: bitch to work on, and expensive to fix. unless you have a fat wallet, id stay away from them. i have worked on several at work, and nothing is simple, and they cost a small fortune to fix, and parts arent easily avalible.

volvo is ok but your still sorta in the smae boat. they arent cheap that cheap to fix.

vans: i re/re a lot of mini van trannys. id say the worst is the windstar followed by the caravan/voyager, however the dodges arent nearly as mush to fix as the ford. gm seems to be a bit better but we still see em often. id say the best bet for a van would be the dodge. as the tranny can be problematic, dodge still has the #1 selling minivan.