The 5 best 7-seater SUVs, crossovers for every budget

The crossover craze offers everything from compact vehicles, such as the so-called SUV-B and others, to vehicles built for high occupancy with more generous dimensions, some of them nearly comparable to a minibus. Either way, in this article we are going to put together the best 7-seater SUVs of 2020: cars already on sale and others that will be available at dealerships before this strange year ends. Let’s begin.

Land Rover Range Rover Autobiography

If excellence among 7-seater SUVs has a name, it is that of the seemingly endless Land Rover Range Rover Autobiography. Five words that cost from 160,920.48 euros for the standard wheelbase version, up to 229,010.48 € for the Range Rover SVAutobiography with the longest wheelbase, the most expensive option and exclusive of the proposals we include in this roundup.

This variant with up to 7 seats of the Land Rover Range Rover fits a 3.0-litre petrol engine producing 400 CV, paired with a mild hybrid system or mild hybrid, which allows it to reduce both consumption and emissions, earning the DGT ECO label.

BMW X7

If high-capacity transport vehicles are what you’re after, the flagship of the BMW SUV range, the BMW X7 offers up to 7 seats. It is better if you go with one or two fewer occupants because, with its 5,151 mm length, it has room for that many passengers, although, as with most vehicles of this type, it is more than advisable to use the third row only occasionally due to the lack of free space in the last seats.

Priced from 98,950 euros for the most modest version, the BMW X7 xDrive30d with 265 CV and 620 Nm of torque, leads the options under 100,000 euros among premium 7-seater SUVs.

Volvo XC90

And if the Volvo XC40 on promotion for less than 25,000 euros is one of the best SUVs on the market today thanks to its value for money, its bigger brother, the Volvo XC90 B5 is a SUV diesel paired with a mild hybrid system, with a total output of 249 CV and 520 Nm, linked to all-wheel drive and an 8-speed automatic gearbox, and which homologates a consumption of 5.9 litres of diesel per 100 km. It is available in both 5 and 7 seats, a high-occupancy variant which, under the Momentum trim, starts from 70,200 €.

Skoda Kodiaq Scout

It is true that, for the price of an Volvo XC90 you can buy a Skoda Kodiaq Scout and its cousin, the Seat Tarraco, and then the question arises: which one is better? Well, having tested both the diesel and petrol powertrains and carried out an exhaustive comparison in the buying guide analysing the range, we can assure you that the Czech model is one of the best SUVs of up to 7 seats, and that it is better as a 5-seater with a huge boot than with 7 passengers and a small boot, with which it can hold its own with dignity when going on excursions off the tarmac.

As the Skoda Kodiaq Scout 4×4 2.0 TDI DSG showed us, it is not an off-roader, but it is a 4×4 with enough attitude and capability to tackle broken tracks, slippery ground and relatively slippery surfaces. It is not a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, but it is not a… well, we’ll leave that for another article about the worst SUVs, vehicles that thought they were off-roaders and didn’t even make it to crossover status.

Mahindra XUV 500

Yes, Mahindra. Mahindra closes our list of the 5 best 7-seater SUVs because, is there an adventure-oriented, high-occupancy vehicle for just from 22,500 euros?

No, there isn’t, but in fairness, the DFSK 580, which we also tested has the same price as the Mahindra XUV 500. However, since the Indian model can be had with four-wheel drive for about 2,500 euros more, while the Chinese one offers no such option, the Mahindra is relatively the better choice over the DFSK, as long as we are talking about buying a cheap 4×4 crossover, but truly cheap.