Top 10: Best Cars for Dog Owners in 2025
12th Sep 2025
Dogs are awesome so it comes as no surprise that when buying a car, many owners want to ensure their four-legged friend isn't crushed in a footwell or squashed in the boot. And, life is just easier if you can cater for your pooch easily and without any hassle.
Below we have listed our top 10 favourite cars we think are ideal for dog owners, ensuring dogs ride in style, and owners can transport them that little bit easier.
- Kia Sportage
- Dacia Jogger
- Land Rover Defender
- Skoda Superb Estate
- Kia EV9
- BMW M3 Touring
- VW ID. Buzz
- MINI Clubman
- Range Rover
- Ford Ranger
Kia Sportage
The Kia Sportage is the textbook family car, perfect if you're looking for plenty of space, decent build quality and sharp style. Not to mention the added bonus of Kia's excellent 7-year warranty.
Being ideal for families means there's also plenty of space for the family pooch with a massive 591-boot. You'll lose a little space with the PHEV version, but you'll still have well over 500 litres to play with.
Boot liners and dog guards are available to make catering for your dog much easier, too.
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In a world where the SUV is ultra-popular, the clever Dacia Jogger blends SUV looks with the length of a traditional estate car, with interior space of an MPV.
This means interior space is vast, meaning there is plenty of space for all types of hound. The seven seats are great for large families, yet the rearmost seats can be removed entirely for even more space and to lets dogs stretch out whilst travelling. In five-seat mode the boot is a massive with up to 708 litres available, fold all the rear seats and you get a van-like 2,085 litres.
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Land Rover make some of the best SUVs out there thanks to their decent on road performance, and their superb off-road performance, too.
The Defender is a fine evolution of the iconic bloodline and can be had in a number of variations including the 90, 110 and huge 130. Each one is ideal for a dog owner, with Land Rover providing multiple accessories to make carrying your dog a walk in the park, pun intended.
What's more, the Defender is designed in such a way as to be easy to clean, ideal then if your dog likes to get muddy on their walks.
Search Used Land Rover DefenderSkoda Superb Estate
In a world where the SUV is king, the humble estate car is often overlooked. But then again, if you don't like SUVs, then an estate car could be the ideal solution in transporting dogs, passengers and large items with absolute ease. And, with a name like Superb, the Skoda cannot be lacking, and fortunately, it's not.
The boot is huge, with 490 litres on offer and a nice and flat area for dogs to get comfy. Accessories are available too like guards, crates and the like to keep dog carrying easier, too.
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Kia design keeps getting slicker and the EV9 SUV showcases the new design language with supreme execution and an fully-electric powertrain.
Combine this with acres of space, and with the choice of six or seven-seat specification available, the EV9 is a tempting prospect. There's 333 litres of space with all seven seats in use, which is still suitable for small and medium dogs, and possibly large dogs for a short journey.
However, fold the rearmost seats and there's a monumental 828 litres, so you can carry multiple dogs with ease. And if you still need more space with all the seats and dogs taking up load space, there's a 52 litre frunk in all-wheel drive models, and 90 litre frunk in rear-wheel drive models, too.
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Another estate, the BMW M3 Touring is the ultimate dog carrier if you don't want an SUV, and feel the need to have the dog pinned to the back window, in enjoyment from the performance of course, in which there is plenty with 0 to 62mph happening in just 3.6 seconds.
Jokes aside, the M3 Touring is seriously fast, so if you love driving it offers immense practicality, as well as a typically iconic BMW M3 driving experience.
And with a 500-litre boot, there's plenty of useable space for dogs. And with xDrive all-wheel drive, getting to and from your favourite dog walks should be that little bit easier.
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Volkswagen have a history of making a long list of iconic cars that are also beautifully practical too. Cars like the Golf became household names famed for their quality, desirability and practicality. But, the classic camper van is perhaps their most iconic car, and so when the ID. Buzz came to the UK in 2023, which is inspired by the iconic camper van / microbus, it was sure to become an instant hit.
Despite the vast space, the original ID. Buzz is a five-seater, meaning there's a massive boot ideal for a dogs. Just how massive, 1,121 litres, and if you fold the rear seats, there's a van-like 2,205 litres. You can even get the ID. Buzz in a six and seven-seater configuration too.
And just think how happy your dog or dogs will be riding around in arguably the coolest MPV out there.
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No longer made by MINI having been replaced by the Aceman, the Clubman was essentially MINI's answer to the estate, and a funky one at that.
The boot is 360 litres which is ideal for small and medium dogs, but fold the rear seats and there's 1,250 litres of space, ideal for larger dogs. MINI also provide dog guards for dog owners to make the car even more dog friendly, too.
The rear doors open out too, which looks cool, and is a little different to most cars, meaning the practicality doesn't have to be boring. Go for the John Cooper Works version if you want a hugely fast MINI too.
Search Used MINI ClubmanRange Rover
If you're a dog owner who spends a lot of time off-road, as well as on it, some cars simply won't cut it. However, a Range Rover certainly will cut it, and cut it with ease. This means that if you like your dog walks off the beaten track, and like a bit of adventure, you and your dog, or dogs, will have no trouble getting to and from your adventure walks.
What's more, there's masses of space for dogs in the large boot, with plenty of accessories on offer from Land Rover too, meaning you can tailor make your Range Rover to suit you and your dog's lifestyle.
Typically you'll see around 650 litres of boot space in a Range Rover Sport or around 800 litres in a Range Rover, giving your dog or dogs ample amounts of space.
Search Used Range RoverFord Ranger
Pick-up trucks are not hugely popular in the UK compared to some countries, and therefore, unsurprisingly not many manufacturers offer them. One manufacturer that does though is Ford. In fact, they have probably just put off all other manufacturers as the Ranger is the most popular by far. Sure the Toyota Hilux and Volkswagen Amarok still sell well, but they are simply not as popular as the dominant Ford.
The Ranger is robust, practical and available in a number of guises. And used, you can find them with canopies. This means the truck bed is covered, perfect then for dog transportation, and means you can keep the interior of the Ranger cleaner, as the truck bed can be easily hosed out after a muddy dog walk.
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