Misplacedyankee

for my wife's Suburban Z71. She wants one of the new style Suburban LTZs or Denali XL - I checked those out first, but the price is now in the $50K+ range for those vehicles. I told her we are going to take a hard look at the MB RL and the Q7 at those prices.

I haven't gone to the MB dealer yet, but the audi dealer had a new Q7 available. It looks good in person. It was sitting right next to a Cayenne and was much larger. The interior is very nice (as expected). It seats 7 with room in the back (about as much as an X5). We have 3 kids and the one disappointment was the rear seat goes in at center so it really takes away from that seating position - you could not put a rear facing car seat there. Thats really poor design. The rear seat should have been a bench seat. The rear leg room is excellent.

Overall better than expected, but not a huge wow. Much better than our Suburban. We shall see....

TeddyBGame

...a rear facing car seat for an infant is better installed in the 2nd row. Per the NHTSA.

Misplacedyankee

The 2nd row seat curves in at the center.