Here are seven bargain used cars with wacky seating arrangements

A packaging triumph… until your kids grew up and started demanding luxuries such as ‘legroom’. The iQ was less than 3m long but could actually fit four people inside. It was more of a 3+1 seater with space behind the driver extremely limited and the boot measured in millilitres, but while it was expensive at launch, it’s now a proper bargain citycar. We found this one with 34,000 miles on the clock for just under £2.7k.

Strangely enough, there aren’t any used Czinger 21Cs for sale in the UK at the moment. Still, you can get the same tandem seating position for much less cash by stumping up £18,995 for this Messerschmitt KR200 from the Sixties. The three-wheeled German bubble car is actually more practical too, because its extended rear bench could squeeze in a single adult or two small kids. 

The brilliantly bizarre Renault Twizy offers an even cheaper way to have your passenger sit directly behind you. This one is bright red, has done just 20,000 miles from new and is listed for less than £4.5k. Okay, it’ll only do a maximum of 62 miles on a single charge, has supercar-stiff suspension and doesn’t actually have any doors, but just look at it!

For those in the front seats, the Felicia Fun’s seating is all rather normal. Well, aside from the fact that you’ll be looking at yellow dials through a yellow steering wheel, sitting on yellow chairs and changing gear with a very yellow knob. Bring back the 90s!

Where things get really weird though is in the back, because the fold-out bench seat can only be used on days that are as sunny as the exterior paint. That’s because the bulkhead slides backwards and leaves your rear passengers essentially sat in the pickup bed, completely exposed to the elements. This one has just over 47,000 miles on the clock and was resprayed (in the correct yellow) back in 2019.

Bad news! There are currently no pre-facelift Fiat Multiplas for sale in the UK! Okay, we’ve only had a brief scout of the major used car marketplaces, but these are sad times. The blobby, bug-eyed Multipla is the one you want.  

The 2004 facelift took all of the character out of Fiat’s phenomenal family car, although it did at least maintain the funky six-seat layout with three abreast up front. Looking for something cheap and impossibly practical? Here’s a 2010 example with an MOT for just £800. 

Fancy a road trip back from Belgium in a Seventies sports car? Can’t decide which of your two mates you’d rather bring along for the ride? You’ll be needing this recently restored Matra Bagheera Series 1. Yours for just €15,790.

This particular car even has the excellent tartan seats from a later Series 2. Yep, all three of them… 

We’re probably stretching the limits of the term ‘bargain’ here, but the original owner of this barmy BAC Mono clearly went wild with the options, because it reportedly cost over £360,000 when new. The base price was £218,000 for the lighter, more powerful R, remember, and we’re told that the clear carbon finish alone was an extra £36,000.

But with just 1,921 miles on its clock, this Batmobile-like Mono R is now for sale at Romans International for just £209,950. Bargain! Time to ditch all of your mates/partner/kids and live out all of your F1 fantasies on a local B-road.