Are all of your kids in car seats or boosters? The Q7 is one of the few vehicles you will find lower latch points for every seat. Now 5 point harness car seats have you switch to the lap belt to secure the seats once the kids are over 40 lbs, but at that size you can move to a booster seat and they use the lap/shoulder belt on the child and lower latch attachments to secure the seat in place. That give you a lot of seat placement options, however when I switched my 5 year old from 5 point to booster he cannot quite buckle himself now, where before he could clip all the buckles of the 5 point together, pull the strap to tighten and then just a tug from me to fully tighten. With the booster I can't reach to help buckle the lap/shoulder. So whoever is in the 3rd row need to be totally self sufficient to buckle themselves. The other issue is very little room behind the 3rd row of any of those vehicles, about 1/2 or 1/3 of what you're used too. We only have 3 kids so we went from Mercedes GLC to a VW Atlas. The Atlas has captains chairs on the second row and we regretted every second of that, as we would have been better off with 3 kids across the 2nd row and leave the 3rd row down for space (you know all the junk you carry around for a day trip or weekend away with the kids). We want to replace our Atlas with a Q7 or XC90 when the time comes and put the kids 3 across. If you are buying one of these with the intent of using the 3rd row because you have 4 kids, I would not even look in this class. I would go right to an Expedition Max or Suburban. I traded my Touareg for an F150 crew cab and love the space. If we had 4 kids I would have gone Expedition Max or maybe even Wagoneer L. I also would not recommend a minivan like so many people do, they also have useless space behind the 3rd row.
