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endeavour_uk · Nov 26th, 2004, 03:01 PM

I having being mulling over the roof/no roof option. I have a tintop One at the moment and my kids (11 & 10) love it. They fight over who goes in the front but the one in the back has never complained. I am about 5'9" so there is still legroom on both sides at the back.

I tried a Convertible the other day. I didn't have the kids with me so had to experiment myself. With the driving seat set for me I found that I still fit in the back. Legroom was bare minimum, headroom OK. What I noticed most is that the intrusion of the 3/4 panels meant that you sat near the middle but your feet are sort of offset towards the outside of the car. I imagined that this would be uncomfy for me after even a short time. The kids being considerably narrower-of-**** might get away with it.

Has anyone got any experience of carrying kids the age of my two on longer journeys in a Convertible?

kimd · Nov 26th, 2004, 09:33 PM

I took my 12 and 14 year old daughters (plus the misses!) down to the Dordogne in the summer in the MCC. We all fitted in ok with 1 weeks luggage although there were a few moans after the 9 hour journey back to Paris - mostly due to numb behinds rather than lack of legroom/elbowroom/headroom though. I'm 5' 10" and the rest of the family are regular size for their age I'd say!!

dalboyne · Nov 27th, 2004, 07:20 AM

My kids are 16 and 17, and are just as happy in the backof the cabrio as they were in the One. They do get quite a buffeting with the roof down, so I had to buy them MINI hats!

Admittedly, longest drive we have all been on so far is about 2 hours...

cymrusteve · Nov 29th, 2004, 01:29 PM

Just drove 350 miles to Charlotte, NC from Virginia Beach, VA with my wife in the front and [nearly] 16 year old daughter in the back. She's nearly 5'10" and didn't have any problems.

HTH,

~steve

Nov 26th, 2004, 03:01 PM	#1
endeavour_uk MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Nov 2004 Local Time: 02:36 PM Posts: 8 Offline	Convertible and bigger kids I having being mulling over the roof/no roof option. I have a tintop One at the moment and my kids (11 & 10) love it. They fight over who goes in the front but the one in the back has never complained. I am about 5'9" so there is still legroom on both sides at the back. I tried a Convertible the other day. I didn't have the kids with me so had to experiment myself. With the driving seat set for me I found that I still fit in the back. Legroom was bare minimum, headroom OK. What I noticed most is that the intrusion of the 3/4 panels meant that you sat near the middle but your feet are sort of offset towards the outside of the car. I imagined that this would be uncomfy for me after even a short time. The kids being considerably narrower-of-**** might get away with it. Has anyone got any experience of carrying kids the age of my two on longer journeys in a Convertible?

Nov 26th, 2004, 09:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
kimd MINI2 Regular Join Date: Feb 2004 Local Time: 02:36 PM Posts: 95 Offline	I took my 12 and 14 year old daughters (plus the misses!) down to the Dordogne in the summer in the MCC. We all fitted in ok with 1 weeks luggage although there were a few moans after the 9 hour journey back to Paris - mostly due to numb behinds rather than lack of legroom/elbowroom/headroom though. I'm 5' 10" and the rest of the family are regular size for their age I'd say!! MCC Astro Black, collected 21 July , all is well (alarm has not false alarmed since 15 December 2004!)

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Nov 27th, 2004, 07:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
dalboyne Impatient for R57! My Classifieds Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Luxembourg Local Time: 04:36 PM Posts: 1,612 Online	My kids are 16 and 17, and are just as happy in the backof the cabrio as they were in the One. They do get quite a buffeting with the roof down, so I had to buy them MINI hats! Admittedly, longest drive we have all been on so far is about 2 hours...

Nov 29th, 2004, 01:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
cymrusteve MINI2 Regular Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Virginia Beach, VA Local Time: 10:36 AM Posts: 106 Offline	Just drove 350 miles to Charlotte, NC from Virginia Beach, VA with my wife in the front and [nearly] 16 year old daughter in the back. She's nearly 5'10" and didn't have any problems. HTH, ~steve

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