I have two teenage children. I still drive a Mazda 5, even though they've been out of production for several years. Seats 6 (if two are small children) on the

I have two teenage children. I still drive a Mazda 5, even though they've been out of production for several years. Seats 6 (if two are small children) on the wheel base and drive train of a Mazda 3 hatchback. It was our only family car for several years with pets and kids and sports and all the normal family bullshit people do. Our other family car is a Subaru Outback. It has much better ground clearance than the Mazda and seats 5 adults. You can lay the seats down and put a lot of crap in there if you need to move a bunch of shit around. Neither of these are SUVs. We never came close to needing an SUV for everyday driving.