Please advise asap-we were going to put in our order tomorrow and are now getting 'cold spines.' Our real quesiton is: will it work ADEQUATELY to have a rear-facing car seat in a Mini Cooper Clubman for the time we will need to do so, and will we be able to manage a bigger child in a front-facing safety seat in the Clubman after that, or does reasonable consideration of car seat needs mean that we have to eliminate this vehicle we had finally agreed on and go back to the drawing board?

In the course of our extended research efforts and more extended baby-making efforts we finally got PREGNANT and are now six months out from needing a car that can reasonably accomodate a rear-facing car seat! We know that if we were ONLY considering car seat access we would choose another vehicle. We were also hoping to find something that would have decent handling and that we could comfortably see out of! We finally decided to buy a Mini Cooper Clubman. My wife and I have done a lengthy search for a car that would pass our '30/30/60' test and give us 30mpg, more than 30 cubic feet of cargo space, and have a Consumer Reports rating of 60 or higher.

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