cruiserDan

I'm now wondering how much I need the 7 seats...considering your price is about $7K under rrp driveaway, can I ask how and where you got that deal??? Impressed...

Mate I would look for a new one for that money, $38k saw me in a brand spanker this week. Yes it's 2wd and 5 seats but your family can still fit in. Pick mine up on Friday. RRP is around $41K - I can't imagine your price was driveaway but well done anyway. We think we really need the 7 seats for other kids and relatives. Enjoy your first weekend driving!

Thanks for sharing, if I don't plan on going fully offroad and don't need Downhill Assist Control, then I'm wondering how important AWD might be around town. Mind you a work colleague got t-boned on the weekend in wet weather so I'm thinking twice on this option.

Hello board and boardmembers! Stumbled across this great forum last week while researching our new family car. Between what I've read here and taking a loan car home for the weekend from a dealer I'm convinced this is the right one! Got a budget of about $35-38K and this is where I'm trying to figure out which model and options would be best. After visiting two separate brissie dealers who'd advertised AWD models only to learn each were FWD (after much BS), I'll take my chances buying privately. These are the three car types I can get for the above budget: 2009 KX-R model, 7 seat, FWD, about 30K kms 2008 KX-R model, 7 seat, AWD, about 50K kms 2007 KX-S model, 7 seat, FWD, about 70K kms I can't figure out which is best, so I guess my questions are about the AWD versus FWD, are the added features in the S model actually worthwhile and how should I take into account kilometers? We're a family of four, kids 4 and 2 and while the car is mum's midweek I'm pretty keen to explore a bit of wilderness on weekends plus the annual drive to the snow. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Cheers, Dan