When I was shopping for a new truck, my daughter was 3 months old and in a rear facing car seat.
(This was in January 2006). I actually had my wife and the baby with me at the dealership looking at trucks. The only way to fit a rear facing seat in the back was to put the front seat a good bit forward. I'm 6ft tall and I always have my seat all the way back, so that was a no go. The salesman kept trying to "fit" me into a ExCab, but there just wasn't enough room for me AND the baby seat. I checked some crew cabs and they had much more room. But they did not have any CC trucks in my price range, not even used ones. I was looking to spend no more than 20k cash out the door, and they could not get me into a crewcab for that price. Then I test drove the Suburban, and it was more than enough room, but it didn't have a bed. I compromised and bought the Suburban and I've been happy with it ever since. The ONLY time I regret getting an SUV instead of an actual truck is when I'm hauling something muddy, dirty, or smelly. Killing a deer for instance...... I have to lay tarps all in the back to make sure I don't get blood in the carpet. I do clean the deer and put the meat in a nice chest, but being way out in the woods, you can't even keep th outside of the ice chest clean. Other than that, I love my Suburban and have driven the piss out of it for over 8 years now.