So I was all but set to sign on the dotted line and buy a Sienna tomorrow (no joke), but I just discovered something pretty devastating.
Namely, we have three car seats that we currently have all in the back of our Prius. Two are connected to the LATCH anchors, one with a seat belt, and all are connected to tether anchors on the back of the back seat.
The Prius has actually been a pretty good, versatile family car for us!
The Sienna, on the other hand? Two latch anchors in the front seats (okay, fine), one in the back in the middle of two seats (hmm, defeats the purpose of an 8 passenger van a little bit), but I checked tonight and there's also only ONE tether anchor in the back seat! WTF?!?
Did Toyota not realize minivan purchasers are going to have a lot of car seats?!? The back seat of our Prius is better-suited for a young family than the back seat of a Sienna.
With our four kids, we planned on having three car seats in the third row, the infant seat in the second row, then the other two second row seats removed to give us maximum interior space, which would thought would make it easy to maneuver and strap the kids in. Now we're not quite sure what we want to do, and getting an Odyssey instead is a definite possibility.
Am I crazy here, or what?
Namely, we have three car seats that we currently have all in the back of our Prius. Two are connected to the LATCH anchors, one with a seat belt, and all are connected to tether anchors on the back of the back seat.
The Prius has actually been a pretty good, versatile family car for us!
The Sienna, on the other hand? Two latch anchors in the front seats (okay, fine), one in the back in the middle of two seats (hmm, defeats the purpose of an 8 passenger van a little bit), but I checked tonight and there's also only ONE tether anchor in the back seat! WTF?!?
Did Toyota not realize minivan purchasers are going to have a lot of car seats?!? The back seat of our Prius is better-suited for a young family than the back seat of a Sienna.
With our four kids, we planned on having three car seats in the third row, the infant seat in the second row, then the other two second row seats removed to give us maximum interior space, which would thought would make it easy to maneuver and strap the kids in. Now we're not quite sure what we want to do, and getting an Odyssey instead is a definite possibility.
Am I crazy here, or what?