Jazz OK, but nowhere near 2000 litres.

Specs say Materia only 600 litres

Citroen auto gearboxes not good, C3 hasn't the boot space, Berlingo bigger all round

BMax auto is 1.6 and like the Skoda has a DSG box with potential issues and the its boot is too small.

Not enthusiastic about any Renaults and I'll check the Dacia specs.

In the days before we had a campervan (and now a caravan) we used to put one dog in the Verso boot with the Toyota dog guard in place, then drop the rear seats and put the other dog in a crate on the flat loadspace.

That was fine until we wanted to holiday and then we had a brainwave and packed a big suitcase which slid on top of the dog crate. Handily Toyota sell/sold a luggage net that hangs behind the front seats, so if the case slid forward it wouldn't wallop the backs of our heads. Not many cars would have the headroom for that sort of arrangement.

With a new puppy the crate is coming back into use, hence my fiddling about with the seats. In truth having it set up as a van might help Mrs SDA anyway as she's a choral director and travels about with music stand, conductor's stool and boxes and boxes of folders/sheet music.

The Verso S is but a pale shadow of the Yaris Verso without the signature ENORMOUS boot. It diddn't last very long on Toyota's UK model list. I believe the autobox was a CVT rather like the first and the current Jazz.

Edited by Steamdrivenandy on 17/07/2014 at 19:38

'Slush' box as opposed to 'Jerk' box I guess..

It's actually 2160 litres and MY Cee'd SW is 1664 litres. There's not many cars can beat it, a Galaxy at 2325, a Grand Picasso at 2181, a Santa Fe at 2213 and the current Berlingo at 3000 litres are some.

As you say SP it's down to the height as the second boot measurement is always taken to the roofline. As I posted earlier we managed to fit a 2ft plus high dog crate with a 15inch suitcase on top with no problem with the rear seats folded away under the front seats.