VOLKSWAGEN TOURAN 1.6 FSI SE 5dr [7 Seat] (2003)

A good MPV, seven seats very useful for many kids!

I’ll kick off with the biggest problem: the two additional rear-most seats are a £500 option. We have found them very useful for carting the kids and friends around, I struggle to see why you wouldn’t want them apart from the fact that they are optional. That’s my biggest issue with this car.

It feels a little like the engine is lacking in power to pull its weight, it seems like it always wants a gear change in order to push on. This means you have to work the engine quite hard which in turn, will result in a big pay out at the pumps and that’s quite annoying.

As already mentioned, the seating arrangements are pretty good. There are two separate seats in the middles bench with a small middle one and then two right at the back. All have three-point seat belts which is a good safety feature. One issue is that the rear-most seats are really quite difficult to get into and when they’re up, you have very little by way of luggage space. They are also strictly for kids in terms of legroom. But there is plenty of space all round and everything is fitted well even if not the most exciting place in the world to spend time.

It’s quite pricey at the outset but you get many standard pieces of equipment leaving little on the options list and I like that about this car.