Honda Stream flows serenely in a crowded life

With such a wide choice of MPVs now available to the Irish market, buyers can be faced with quite a bewildering choice. Between small, compact and full-size, you really have to look hard at your lifestyle before picking one to suit.

Enter Honda’s medium-sized 2-litre SE Sport Stream, a full 7-seater people-carrier in the compact segment, built for comfort. The 2-litre i-VTEC engine, offering an output of 156bhp, will provide all the power you need.

The 4-door Stream is an attractive looking car, if a little peculiar in shape for some people's taste. That end quarter seems to have a fight going on between the roofline and the end window.

More like a car in height, the Honda Stream offers one of the most comfortable rides in its class. It’s not that the seats, (and there are three rows of them), look a whole lot better than those in other models, it’s that they are so very comfortable. It is a car you could go a long way in.

The Stream is mostly aimed at the needs of a growing family or those with a pretty hectic lifestyle who need to truck around a lot of equipment.

Visibility is great, due to the low scuttle line in the front and all that glass (tinted) which includes a very steeply raked windscreen, three good sized windows and a small A-Pillar window along the sides, as well as a huge rear window. High-mounted brake lights frame the rear window.