Originally Posted by giaka

Just looking at a Q7s 3rd row it doesn't look much bigger than the X5. My son has an F15 with 3rd row and its pretty darn small back there for sure.

I swore I would never buy a minivan but......Minivan life isn't so bad if you look at it this way. I leased (4yrs) a fully loaded Routan a few years back. At the time I had 4 kids that needed to be carted around and a fully loaded van gave everyone their own video and radio controls (yes even the 3rd row). It seated 6 adults comfortably so us + kids left plenty of room for other stuff (you will have other stuff). I hate to say it but it was pretty darn nice. Flash forward 4 years, two of the kids have their license and their own cars so we are down to us and +2 kids. We were back to being able to buy what we want.

Having said all that I would seriously take a look at the VW Atlas if I needed lots of seats.