Cars with seven seats are ideal if you have a large family or you’re the coach of a six-a-side football team. They also offer unrivalled versatility, especially if you’re able to fold away the rear seats to create a load area to rival an estate car or van.

We’ve pulled together a list of seven-seat MPVs and SUVs you can buy for £7000. As much as we wanted to include a few retro estate cars with a pair of rear-facing back seats, we’ve limited our search to cars registered after 2011 and with no more than 100,000 miles on the clock: