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10 SUVs with the biggest boots in 2024
One of the most appealing aspects of having an SUV is just how practical they are. Particularly if you have a big family or an active hobby, having a car with a big boot can mean the difference between packing everything comfortably into the back, or making your passengers fight for space in the cabin with bulky bags.
Here, our expert reviews team has put together a list of SUVs with the biggest boots.
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If luggage space is absolutely key in your car buying priority list, then look no further than the Land Rover Discovery. The British brand rather dominates this list because it calculates boot space slightly differently to most, but even though this inflates its figures the Discovery’s boot is still absolutely massive, measuring 1,231 litres behind the second row. There’s also an inner tailgate that lowers to give you somewhere to perch while taking off your muddy wellies. Even with all seven seats in place, the Discovery’s boot is about the same size as a small city car’s, and fold rows two and three and you get a positively van-like load area.
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If you like the idea of the Discovery but want something a bit more rugged-looking, the Land Rover Defender also gets a frankly massive boot. In their five-seat configurations, the 110 model has a decent 786 litres, but the long-wheelbase 130’s boot is even bigger at 1,094 litres. It also has seating for eight people (compared with the 110’s seven), but if you have all seats in place the boot drops to 290 litres. Again, though, this is small hatchback territory. The downside is that the boot door swings out, so it can be tricky to open in tight spaces.
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Another car with a cavernous boot, the Peugeot 5008 might not be quite as posh as the Land Rovers above, but it does come with more space than most people will ever need. There’s 952 litres in its five-seat layout, and the boot space is usefully square with no load lip to lug large items over. If you put the third row up, though, the luggage space is absolutely tiny, and if you fold the second row the seats don’t sit completely flat.
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If you’re looking for luxury and practicality in equal measure the Mercedes GLS is the car for you. With 890 litres on offer it’s even bigger than its key alternative, the Range Rover. In the GLS you get a button to lower the rear end to make the boot easier to access, and if you want to fold the second row seats you can do it electronically in all but the base version. Do so, and only the Land Rover Discovery has more space. In seven-seat mode there’s 355 litres of space, which is also hugely impressive.
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There’s just one electric car in this list of big-boot SUVs, and it’s this, the Tesla Model Y. Elon Musk might be doing his best to put you off buying anything from Tesla, but there’s no denying the Model Y is a fantastic option for those who want zero-emission motoring without compromising on practicality. It has a boot capacity of 854 litres, which is about 300 litres more than most alternatives. Even better, you get a 117-litre front boot as well, which is a useful place to store your charging cables without eating into your regular boot capacity.
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Whether you go for the short- or long-wheelbase Range Rover the boot space is the same, with the extra length used to improve rear seat legroom. However, with 818 litres in the five-seat versions, there’s loads of space for whatever family life throws your way. Like the Discovery you can fold down an inner tailgate to sit on, and there are switches to electronically fold the rear seats. However, the car is so long it can be tricky to push items through, and the lip created by the folded seats doesn’t help.
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If you want a posh SUV but don’t want to pay posh SUV prices, the Volkswagen Touareg is a good option. And with an 810-litre boot there’s more luggage space than most of its pricier alternatives. The boot opening is nice and wide and easy to access, and you can fold the seats using handy levers. However, once you do, the overall space is oddly low compared to most other cars in this list. Plug-in hybrid models also lose quite a bit of capacity, dropping to 665 litres behind the second row.
The Audi Q7 is yet another big, posh, seven-seat SUV – it’s a recurring theme in this list. Regardless, its 780-litre boot (in five-seat mode) makes it worthy of a spot. The third row of seats can be folded electronically to create a perfectly flat boot floor, though the process is annoyingly slow. You get all the usual extras, such as a 12V socket, luggage tethers and a storage net, but there’s no underfloor storage.
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At 772 litres there’s loads of space in the Porsche Cayenne for a big shop or suitcases for a weekend away, and there’s a handy net over one of the wheelarches that’s good for smaller items that might otherwise roll around. There are some negatives, such as the fact that you can’t fold the rear seats from the boot and have to do so by leaning in the back door. And once they’re down they don’t fold completely flat.
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As a luxury MPV, the Lexus LM operates in a very, very small niche. However, if you want something cool and quirky for the school run then it’s worthy of consideration – and no one else’s kids will arrive as refreshed for the day. Particularly if you go for the Business Class-like four-seat layout, which gives you 752 litres of boot capacity to utilise. Go for the seven-seat version and this drops massively, though.
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