Jdonoghue

Our 4th (and last, I finally get my boy) child will be here in a couple of weeks. Now, unless someone can tell me how I can safely put 2 car seats, and 2 skinny-as-a-rail kids in the back seat of my '01, I'll need to get something bigger. And I'd prefer something with lots of steel and a diesel. The only thing I can think of is a Ford Excursion. Is there something I'm overlooking? And please don't tell me to get a bus

jaconst

how about a sprinter with a cummins or get an expedition and convert it over to a cummins

dhvaughan

congratulations. I recommend a Honda Odyssey.

boostjunkie1

Mega-Cab- - - -Auto with fold down center console. Get a Bed Cap that will help keep the bring alongs dry. The back seat has enough room for 3 Kids + car seat. Rear DVD Entertainment (Barney)!!!!

Wait a couple of Months and there are going to be some major offerings in the Diesel market. Right now you could settle for a used Durango/Expedition/ Oh yea DIESEL! Well in that case Excrusion with the 7.2 PowerStroke. Slow as snail slime but it will get you there and back.

Begle1

Nothing that big in the US has a Diesel unless you put it in yourself, or you get an Ex*******.

That many kids wouldn't even fit into a big car. You need an SUV of some sort. (And no mini-vans; whoever recommended the Honda Oddesy: you're out of the club house. ) And since AMC never made any SUV's, I don't have suggestions I can make.

jogl

What about a Suburban, lots to choose from, when the Dura packs it up, put in a Cummins. People are paying way too much for those diesel X's IMHO.

Geico266

Since you guys keep having kids how about seperate cars & seperate houses?

I'm kidding of course.

Congrats on the newbie.

Honda or Toyota vans are the best.

berner

As much as I hate mini-vans, a friend just bought a new Toyota Sienna and I gotta say it's a pretty nice vehicle. He loves it. Pull the back seats and you can haul pretty much anything. Not sure if a 4X8 sheet of plywood would fit but it'd be close. If I needed a vehicle with lots of passenger capacity, I'd probably buy one too.

electrifried

Suburban up thru 99 will be a 6.5. Nobody wants them, but I think they are great. Wonderful as a grocery-getter or on a family vacation with the whole crew and luggage tooling down the interstate at 70 mph and getting 20+ mpg. The diesel page will help you maintain the 6.5 just as this page does your Cummins.

John Faughn

An old school bus with a Cummins .

Patrick Campbell

Tough one - My fiance would never go for it but I'd be on board with a sprinter van. There is one that is actually quite short (118" WB). That has 2 rows of 3, + driver/passenger....I think.





I got mine priced out with dual batteries, 200 amp alternator, high idler, and the whole 9 yards for 34k msrp. I have no idea what this option is Click to select this option.

Auxiliary Belt Drive
$297.00



Otherwise a mega cab but while I dont have kids yet dont think I would really want 1 right next to me while driving.....

Fronty Owner

leave the wife and kids at home where she belongs....

The Odesse is a good van. For the immediate solution, putting two car seats in the back and the oldest child to keep them occupied. your truck is rated for 6 people.

BearKiller

Put the kids up for adoption, before they outgrow cuteness and adoptability, or rob a bank, or turn into junkies; then, you can keep the truck.

BearKiller

The engine is flat belt.

The auxilliary drive is a V-belt drive, beside the flat, so V-belt accessories can be added, without the usual hassle of doing so.

Patrick Campbell

Oh neat. Sounds like a fun little van.