Mazda 5

We love our Mazda 5. We were "early adopters" of it having bought it the month they came out -- July 2005 -- so we've had it over two years. We love that it feels zippy and it's small enough to parallel park easily in the city, but we've also driven very comfortably to Chicago, Boston, and even Colorado a couple of times in it. We have two kids, ages 5 and 2.5 and it's perfect for us. (OK, now I realize I sound like I'm a car salesman. I assure you I'm not!) We also carpool/shuttle other kids around and it really isn't that bad getting back to the third row if a child needs help. You just need to do it before the kids in the middle row get in. We're expecting our third baby in March so the 5 year old is going to be in the third row permanently. I think it's going to work just fine.

As for storage with the seats all up...it's small but you can still fit stuff back there. I'm pretty sure our Maclaren fits when you put it in on angle kind of standing up. Take your stroller to the dealer and check it out.