What do you drive to the lake?

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I'm in the market for a new vehicle and it must have a 3rd row seat. We have found that more often than not, we have 6 + people in the trek from CT to the lake and as our car and SUV only have 5 seats, we have begun searching for more room.

The challenge is that I would rather not drive a mini van or something that gets 10mpg as my daily driver. I have looked at all of the large SUVs, minivans and other cars like the Ford Freestyle, Cadillac SRX, MB r 350, etc and have not found anything I really want to drive that have enough bag room, gets ok mileage and doesn't remove all of the fun of driving.

So as I started looking I wondered to myself what other lake commuters do and how they get their groups back and forth to the lake. So, all that said, if you carry 6+ people to the lake, how do you do it and do you like it?