Space at the rear is also good with decent
amount of knee room and good shoulder and head space.
The rear seats are upright and flat, and there isn't a
lot of knee room if the front seats are pushed all the way back.
I didn't think there was a
ton of knee room in the back seat and there's not a ton of room behind either.
It also has a great back seat, with
loads of knee room and enough space to fit three adults side - by - side in relative comfort.
In combination with the newly designed seats, passengers on the back seats can enjoy an additional 3.5
cm of knee room.
Still, the extra size is more easily felt than seen, with rear passengers benefiting from an extra half -
inch of knee room, while all passengers enjoy more headroom.
The saving grace is that there is a
lot of knee room and headroom for the passengers, which makes the cabin feel pretty usable for four.
Jaguar also claims rear occupant space to be better than some full - sized SUV with up to 71
mm of knee room on offer to rear passengers.
Rear - seat accommodation in the Audi was marginal; there was not a lot
of knee room seated behind an average - sized adult, and the roof sat low too.
With the standard wheelbase, rear seat legroom is up 4.7 - inches with an extra 2 - inches
of knee room compared to it's predecessor and a new long wheelbase version is available.
In
terms of knee room or the sense of space, despite the increase in wheelbase, the Passat won't be as large as the Superb.
The transmission tunnel that runs through the spine of the floor is quite high which eats into foot room for the middle occupant, and the rear air - conditioning takes up crucial
millimetres of knee room.
Occupants will enjoy the comfortable seats and there is no
shortage of knee room in the back for taller passengers.
The A3 doesn't feel that small from the driver's seat, but I looked in the back an there was about 3 inches
of knee room with my 5 - foot, 10 - inch frame in front.
Rather the opposite, because you sit 59 mm higher than in the standard 3 Series and rear passengers have an extra 70
mm of knee room, meaning the GT is on a par with the larger 5 Series for spaciousness.
I'm six foot tall (183 cm) and I enjoyed
plenty of knee room and headroom — not to mention the bench seat felt more ergonomic to sit in than in the old model.
The long wheelbase measuring 2.63 meters (8.63 ft)-- a best - in - class figure in the premium compact segment — gives rear passengers on the two individual seats a pleasing
amount of knee room.
Economy Space + seats on Virgin Australia in a 3 -3-3 configuration offer a few extra
inches of knee room in the first five rows of economy section (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
It's the slim dash design that has liberated
lots of knee room, and even headroom isn't a constraint for tall occupants.
The Clubman also adds 2.5 inches
of knee room in back and 50 percent more cargo space behind the rear seat.
In the back seat my 6 - foot frame has plenty
of knee room and only adequate headroom as is not uncommon for coupe - profiled sedans in this class.
The previous Fiesta wasn't the roomiest supermini on sale, but with a 4 mm longer wheelbase — partly to house larger 18 - inch wheels that are now available — Ford claims it has freed up an extra 16 mm
of knee room.
The rear seat can also be reclined up to an angle of 43.5 degrees and gets an extendable footrest turning it into a lounge like chair that offers 77 mm
of knee room.
Better headroom, decent amount
of knee room and good amount of legroom compared to the previous Swift.
There was plenty
of knee room and enough space under the front seats to slip the feet, but the A3 remains a small car — with all that says about length to stretch out, despite the extra couple of inches (58 mm) in the wheelbase, which now measures 2636 mm.
At the back, there is plenty
of knee room and headroom to spare for 6 + ft folks like me, and the seats can be reclined electrically.
With my 5» 10» frame in front, there was at least 6 or 7 inches
of knee room in back.
In the cabin there's plenty of room for five — knees and head room will not be a problem for any of them
«Stadium - style» second - row seats, which are 50 mm higher than the front seats and can slide forwards or back by a class - leading 160 mm, offer as much as 112 mm
of knee room and 1011 mm of leg room — almost as much as the Range Rover.