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The Hyundai i800 is one of very few ways to seat eight people. It is cheap and useful, but also unrefined

The domestic market for truly cavernous MPVs with the capacity to swallow not seven but eight people and a generous amount of luggage is probably a small one, but it’s nice to know the monstrously capacious Hyundai i800 exists anyway. You know, just in case. 

In truth the market for commercial vehicle-derived people movers such as this – and the Volkswagen Caravelle, Ford Transit Tourneo, Vauxhall Vivaro Combi and the Mercedes-Benz V-Class – exists in the world of airport-run taxi firms and the like. But if you care little about the mechanical niceties of your next automotive purchase and are more preoccupied with coping with having to leave half the family at home on journeys, or else take two cars, then the i800 could be the vehicle you’ve been crying out for.

The i800 is a big bus, but there is a huge amount of interior space

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Matt Prior

Matt Prior
Title: Editor-at-large

Matt is Autocar’s lead features writer and presenter, is the main face of Autocar’s YouTube channel, presents the My Week In Cars podcast and has written his weekly column, Tester’s Notes, since 2013.

Matt is an automotive engineer who has been writing and talking about cars since 1997. He joined Autocar in 2005 as deputy road test editor, prior to which he was road test editor and world rally editor for Channel 4’s automotive website, 4Car. 

Into all things engineering and automotive from any era, Matt is as comfortable regularly contributing to sibling titles Move Electric and Classic & Sports Car as he is writing for Autocar. He has a racing licence, and some malfunctioning classic cars and motorbikes. 

Hyundai i800 First drives