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A new seven-seat option for the Citroen Berlingo Multispace MPV has been unveiled.

The upgrade, called the ‘Family Pack’, gives customers five separate foldable rear seats that can all be removed independently, and will be made available as an £800 option on the 1.6-litre petrol and diesel VTR-spec Citroen Berlingo models.

Boot space with all seven seats fitted has been reduced to 100 litres, but rearmost passengers in the Citroen Berlingo Multispace do still get lateral airbags a...Read the full article

No doubt this is in response to the Fiat Doblo Family with seven seats that they have been producing for years now.

Sensible move on Citroen's behalf though.

So - 100 litres of boot space between the rear two seats and the rear tailgate? Not much of a crumple zone is it? I wouldn't put my kids that close to the rear bumper...

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I reckon the crumple zone behind any rearmost seats is pretty minimal, even in something like a Zafira and Grand C4 Picasso. Still, it's good that they've fitted side airbags to the rearmost and middle row outer seats. Plenty of people will buy this in my opinion - it's cheaper than most full-size MPVs yet probably offers similar space - probably more than the likes of a Touran - because the Berlingo does without a bulky transmission tunnel getting in the way of the middle passenger!