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I once had a Volvo wagon with a rear-facing third row, but I don't think anything like that has been made for over 30 years.

You're right though, if we hadn't moved to the Netherlands, we'd have bought something like that too, to make sure we'd win in any crash. Luckily we do, indeed, use an Urban Arrow instead.

Ironically I can hold more kids on the Urban Arrow than I could in my last car - 4 small kids can ride on the bike (3 in bucket, one on a seat on the back), plus the rider of course.



>I once had a Volvo wagon with a rear-facing third row, but I don't think anything like that has been made for over 30 years.

Trunk based 3rd rows were eliminated at the behest of the 30yr ago equivalent of people like you because they performed very poorly in rear end crashes.


Mercedes Benz still makes cars with rear-facing third row seating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYF8dEQlaEU&t=743s

The death of it has more to do with the death of station wagons than safety (I imagine sitting backwards is actually MORE safe)




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