As with the standard Contour,
back seat legroom is a bit snug for adults, but not intolerable.
Back seat legroom is nearly as spacious as full - size cars of 200 - plus inches, although the sloping rear roofline, which makes it look sleeker, also makes rear headroom snug for those well over six feet tall.
Lack of interior storage and
back seat legroom are serious negatives for 2016 Prius as compared to the 2007.
It's very good overall, now has adaptive cruise control, handles well, beats Sonata on
back seat legroom, and has a quirky take on blind spot detection.
Back seat legroom can be a bit tight for adult passengers, but improved greatly with only slight forward positioning of the front seats.
Back seat legroom is good, but the seats themselves lack thigh support, which is both surprising and disappointing.
Not exact matches
Everything else was pretty typical — decent
legroom, clean plane, and Air Canada has good
seat -
back entertainment.
And if you're a tall parent, the front to
back length of a rear - facing
seat could seriously decrease your front
seat legroom.
Nuna's RAVA convertible car
seat is filled with little extras like laid
back legroom, fuss - free adjustments, and our unique simply ™...
Renault Australia has specified the Bus with 12
seats so that there is plenty of
legroom and shoulder room for growing kids, while behind the
back row of four individual buckets
seats there is a huge space for school bags or sports kit, or both.
Even though it would be nice if the front
seats went
back farther, their limited travel preserves some space for rear passengers, where
legroom for the tall is limited but overall comfort is passable.
The split - bench, reclining second - row
seat in our seven -
seat X5 could slide forward and
back to balance the
legroom needs of middle and rear passengers.
Rear
legroom is severely handicapped when the front
seats are pushed all the way
back, and the luggage compartment is barely adequate.
With 40.4 inches of rear
legroom, for instance, its
back -
seat space splits the difference between the Audi A8 and A8L (38.7 and 42.9 inches) and the BMW 7 Series and 7 Series L (38.9 and 44.3 inches).
Front passengers enjoy scads of
legroom, and the
back seat feels more comfortable to us than the competition even though its measurements aren't much different.
That exterior stodginess leads to outstanding room for five people inside, with tons of headroom, impressive
legroom front and
back, and enough width for three people to sit on the flat bench
seat in
back.
But Mazda insists that's because of the positions the
seats must be in when those measurements are calculated; if you take into account how much lower and farther
back the
seats can be moved than in older Miatas, both headroom and
legroom have greatly increased over the outgoing car.
Most of the length reduction affects the
back seat, which loses 4.5 inches of
legroom, and the cargo area, which shrinks by 9.1 cubic feet to 22.9.
Either way, luggage capacity is copious, and depending on the position of the sliding rear
seat,
back -
seat passengers are treated to more
legroom than they would have in a short - wheelbase 7 - series.
Thanks to an increase in wheelbase and a
back seat that nestles deep into the C - pillar, the 2018 Accord offers an absurd amount of rear -
seat legroom — 2.5 inches more than last the outgoing model — and a decent level of headroom considering the swooping roofline.
Once
seated in
back, passengers have plenty of
legroom (only 1.4 inches less than in Hyundai's Elantra sedan), although headroom is tight.
Especially with the rear
seats slid
back to offer the most
legroom, the cargo area is tight.
New front
seats, which ditch the last car's bulky built - in belts in favor of B - pillar belt - presenters and which have spaces sculpted into their
backs, thus providing nearly two additional inches of rear -
seat legroom in the process.
Sitting in the
back seat, I found there is significantly more head - and
legroom than in the Chevrolet Spark's closest rival, the two - door Fiat 500.
Chrysler boasts of the Challenger's five - passenger capacity, but anyone beyond booster -
seat age will be too big for the middle rear spot, and pushing the front
seats too far
back causes rear
legroom to disappear in a hurry.
The
back seat is enormous, with nearly as much
legroom as a BMW 7 - series - at least on paper.
But roomy
back seats are pretty easy to come by in this group, and the Jeep Cherokee and Subaru Forester both claim greater rear -
seat legroom.
With the
seats pushed
back as far as possible,
legroom is bountiful and there is still ample room in the rear for a weekend's worth of luggage for four people.
Legroom remains limited; my knees were pressed against the
back of the driver's
seat.
The third row isn't really meant for adults anyway, with too little
legroom and very upright
seat backs.
s model gives
back seat riders a great amount of
legroom, and is a wonderful vehicle to take the whole family in on long car rides.
Legroom and shoulder room accommodated two 6 - foot - plus adults behind adults
seated in the second row (there are
seat belts for three in the
back that could work in a pinch, though with far less comfort).
We did get to sit in the
back seat, though — and though
legroom isn't quite as vast as this big Audi's exterior dimensions might suggest, it's more than adequate, and headroom isn't an issue despite the steeply sloping roof.
There is plenty of
legroom in the front and
back seats.
The cabin also feels incrementally roomier thanks to a 0.6 inch increase in wheelbase, which adds nearly an inch of rear
legroom, helping make the
back seats feel almost habitable for average - sized adults.
There's adequate second - row
legroom for taller passengers (I'm 6 - foot - 1), but my shins touched a hard plastic panel on the
back of the driver's
seat.
What the figures don't reflect is how far
back the front
seats travel, which gives the front
seats more
legroom than the numbers suggest — and gives the whole car more flexibility.
«They had plenty of
legroom but the
back seat is only just wide enough for three adults,» Capparella reported.
The SRT8's high -
backed, big - bolster
seats hug nicely, while rear -
seat legroom is surprisingly generous.
The Cadenza's wheelbase grows to improve truck space and boost
back -
seat legroom by half an inch, yet the sedan is wider and slightly lower than before.
The
back seat is particularly spacious, with a limo - like 40 inches of rear -
seat legroom.
Chevrolet says
back -
seat passengers enjoy 28.6 inches of
legroom.
Though Porsche doesn't officially specify the amount of extra rear
seat legroom the Executive enjoys over the base model, nobody south of 6 - feet 6 - inches will have any issues stretching out
back there.
With
back -
seat perspective so critical to these cars, BMW has stretched the 7 Series about an inch longer than the last long - wheelbase model to offer the most rear -
seat legroom in the class.
The
back seat may offer a fifth belt, but there is only a fractional improvement in rear -
seat legroom.
Both
seats can slide forward and
back, which opens up third - row
legroom.
Speaking of the roofline, I have adequate headroom and tons of
legroom in the
back seat, but the average six - foot adult male would surely be cramped.
As Joe Lorio noted, the
back seat is really roomy for a small SUV so even full - size adults should have plenty of
legroom.
Lots of
legroom in the front and
back seats.
Even so, the interior is very roomy, with a wide cabin and a spacious
back seat that offers 40 inches of
legroom.