Was idly wondering last night, as you do.

When we were kids, we used to go to a beach where you could drive. Great for dinghy and paraphernalia, but not so good in terms of getting a car full of sand.

The time has come for taking my own child on holiday, and I had an idea - the seats in the Multipla presumably will fit in facing the other way. This would mean you could sit in the car to clean your feet etc, but your feet would be in the boot rather than the passenger space.

As I recall the fixing points are the same front and rear, so I can't see how this wouldn't work.

I then thought that if you swapped the left and right seats over, the seatbelts would also work.

No idea why you'd want to do it, but does anyone know what the legal status would be - would it be legal to drive it that way?

Hi there.

I have actually done this in my old ugly bug for the purposes of watching motor racing. (And other more nefarious purposes......)

I am absolutely sure that this would not be legal on the road however.

Also if you have a Nosejob, not an Uglybug, the front center seat doesn't slide so I am not sure whether you have enough room to get one facing the wrong way in the rear center position.

Hope this helps.

Panda

It's nice to have it confirmed as working without having to try it - cheers. I have an uglybug so it should be fine.

I had thought it might be good for eating chips by the sea of an evening actually - the toddler could sit on one of our knees and we could use the middle back seat as a table - can't do that in the front without taking out the child seat - and we'd still all be able to see the view.

If anything a front-end collision would be safer with the seats backwards as the main force would push you in to the seat rather than the seat belt, but my suspicion is that it's be illegal too, but for no good reason!

Not illegal, as long as the seatbelts on the outer two can work as lap-belts.
In my '92 Espace I regularly fitted the middle seats 'backwards' (as they were designed to be used, if required), so you were facing the passengers in the rear seats.
The kids loved it.
Same with the swivelling mid-seats in my old Lucida.

I sometimes fit my front seats backwards.

Easier just to put a baseball cap on back to front.

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Easier just to put a baseball cap on back to front.

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Yo! Word up!

(I am not entirley sure what that means, actually, but the yoof who wear such hats backwards have been overheard saying it now and again.....)