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I need to rent a car for a couple of days and I'll be transporting two people and two road bikes (one will be a 60cm frame, so not small) plus a small amount of luggage.
The rental car companies web sites are showing a choice (yes, I know...) between the Peugeot and the Seat and the price difference is negligible (~ 2 euros)
For sheer convenience and laziness, which of the above would be better for loading and un-loading? I'm not the slightest bit bothered about driving dynamics, fuel consumption or any other guff as we won't be doing a huge amount of driving...
As my girlfriend will potentially be by herself at some stage, removing and replacing bike wheels is something I'd rather she avoid having to do, if possible...
We've got a Partner Tepee. I wanted a van but had to compromise on the family orientated version for the younguns when the dragon got involved. Its brilliant. Back seats out, big up and over rear door, 2 bikes roll straight in with both wheels on. Plenty of room for other stuff as well.
I would have thought the Peugeot would be far better for what you are describing. Only caveat would be is it the Partner van or 'car' version? And if it's the car version would you have somewhere to store the seats - as you'd want to remove all the rear seats I would have thought.
no need to take the seats out of a partner to do what the OP wants
the bikes will go in whole with just the twin seat down .
Take 4 bunji cords though.
Good ideas about the bunji cords...
I'm not the slightest bit bothered about driving dynamics, fuel consumption or any other guff
does the partner have 'van' speed limits - someone will know, you may not care
Partner will be much easier, bags of room. Berlingo driver here.
Check the small print - showing you a picture of a partner and one of a seat might not mean much - its quite unusual for a booking to guarantee a specific make/model of car. They may mean 'a car like' a berlingo or a seat and they can be a bit arbitrary as to how they put cars in certain classes. It might just by engine size and make /model / size can vary quite a bit.
With that uncertainty being the case I'd err on the side of the partner as anything partner/berlingo-like should do the job well enough. Hire companies could easily put a Kuga or a Quasquoi in the same class though, which wouldn't be disastrously bad but not as good.
So, just to confirm, Peugeot Partners and similar, in "car" configuration (rather than van configuration), have folding rear seats?
The seats fold in half then roll forward. Upbehind front seats.
Both van and car version of partner are car speedlimit not van, they are car derived vans by definition and v5 and weight limit.
70/30 split, tumble forward leaving a flat floor.
OK, thanks guys.