When we bought the Mini, we figured the back seats might be useful to get the kids to school once in a while, but the darned thing's to small to be useful, right?
Well ...
Took a trip to visit the grandparents last weekend - and on the way out of town the "family" car (a wagon) got a flat. Rather than trying to get it patched or replaced on a Friday evening, we went back home and put our luggage into the Cooper.

Hit the Ikea on Saturday, bought a filing cabinet, some containers, a coffee pot ... and on Sunday loaded up the adults, 2 kids, a couple of dogs, and all our luggage in a MC hardtop.

No problem.

It's bigger than I thought.

 

We used to get our entire family of 5 in an original Mini when I was young. When we took luggage for a vacation we had to put most of it on the roof.