Product Reviews

We have owned people carriers, or buses, as my husband prefers to call them, for years. Now, what I really like about the Zafira is that it's a really comfortable car for 5 most of the time, but when you want to take extra passengers the seats reveal themselves oh-so easily. You don't need to store the extra seats in the garage or cause a hernia getting them in or out of the car like the afore-mentioned buses; they're always there, stored under the floor of the boot space. I have never seen space this well organised or so flexible - you can go from 2 to 7 seats in less than a minute, we tried it!

This car has all the usual gadgets and gizmos of most modern cars (although the lower price models are slightly lacking in this department) plus plenty of storage for the big things but it's a bit short on those useful little cubby-holes. It has a huge windscreen and feels light and airy although it is quite noisy on motorways because of its big cabin.

I feel you can't go wrong with this car - it can accommodate a growing family beautifully, it is reasonably priced for what feels like a luxury car and the Zafira has a good reliability record.

• Very flexible seating
• Doesn't drive like a bus
• Spacious & comfy
• Isofix fittings on outer rear second-row seats
• Front and side airbags are standard with curtain airbags on higher-spec models
• Smart, sassy styling
• Zafira's good reliability record

• No airbags for optional third row of seating
• Slightly tricky sliding mechanism to allow passengers into third row
• Bit noisy on motorways
• An over-sized, clumpy handbrake
• As usual with people carriers - when it's full of people there's not much luggage space
• Could do with more little cubby-holes for storage

Best Feature: The flexible seating and despite its enormous capacity it drives like a car not a bus Worst Feature: Annoying clumpy handbrake Verdict: Can accommodate a growing family beautifully

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