I have two core 9 tents, neither of them are instant, though. One is the massive two room tent that can hold two queen air mattresses easily. The other is the 6 man dome. I love their tents, and have used them frequently.
That core dome is 8 pounds. My (way more expensive) Durston Xmid Pro is 1 pound. You pay more for the ultralight/more durable stuff. But if you are just car camping a few times a year that thing is fine!
I have the Coleman Dome 6 (two of them) and a Core 9P, both have been great. Just left Bennett Springs in Missouri in our Coleman 6P and stayed dry the whole weekend.
We have a Core 9 for a family of 4. I thought we would eventually get two smaller tents like one for my boys and one for my wife and I but as I've gotten older I really like being able to stand fully upright.
We just got a naturehike village 8 person tent with a full rainfly. The first time we used it, there were record hot temps (100⁰) in Florida, but we opened everything up for ventilation and it was tolerable. The second time we had record low temps (27⁰), closed the heavy rainfly fully at night and used an electric space heater and it was 76⁰ in the tent. It was unexpectedly great. Our last tent was a core 9 person and the space heater didn't really do much. The naturehike tents are on sale at a deep discount right now on Amazon. The big disadvantage is that the tent is very heavy because of that super thick rainfly, so it may not work if you have to haul it very far.
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The North Face
Wawona 6
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Spacious vestibule, strong in storms, but rainfly tricky solo.
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