"Rear headroom" refers to the amount of space or clearance available for a person's head in the back or rear seat of a vehicle. It describes how much vertical room there is between the top of the seat and the roof, indicating how comfortable a taller person may be in that seating position.
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An ample amount of head and legroom is provided in the front seat
with rear headroom that is similar to other truck models.
Though rear headroom is not suitable for adults, legroom out back is shockingly acceptable, and the trunk can swallow a pair of small carry - ons.
The major criticisms we had of the 2014 X4 were its
limited rear headroom and, especially, the obvious cost cutting and cheap materials used i obvious places around the cabin.
The
extra rear headroom is probably more useful, as is the fact larger door openings make it easier to get in and out of the back.
Given the car's sporting silhouette there's more than
adequate rear headroom largely thanks to a lower than normal H - point.
The passenger cabin offers plenty of front head -, shoulder and legroom and the backseat is roomy,
although rear headroom is tighter than in competitors.
There's even an ample amount
of rear headroom, which makes it easy to relax and avoid feeling cramped for your passengers.
This is done not to compromise
on rear headroom which has been given more importance over design finesse.
The compact, torsion beam rear suspension and hatchback configuration mean ample cargo room and an improvement of nearly an inch
in rear headroom over the sedan and coupe.
Front seat comfort in the Evoque is quite good, but the sloped roof makes
rear headroom tight for adults, and the pinched side windows and rear hatch glass don't permit much light to enter.
Enter Aston's new, hyper - limited, million dollar Lagonda Taraf: By extending the wheelbase 7.9 inches and
increasing rear headroom with a body resembling a normal four - door, Aston Martin fixed the Rapide's space issue.
The revised styling means the i30 Fastback is 30 mm shorter than the hatch, which will likely
compromise rear headroom slightly.
While rear headroom dimensions are nearly identical to the Civic sedan, the Honda feels roomier; the top of my head brushed the Corolla's headliner (I'm 6 - foot - 1).
And has a decent amount of legroom in the back, but the coupe's faster refine
means rear headroom does suffer.
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.
Big, bold, and bulbous, it had that infamous hunchback look necessitated by then Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking's mild OCD
about rear headroom.
Although the CLS - Class's chopped, coupe - like roofline
reduces rear headroom, Lago opines that this graceful four - door is prettier than its boxy sedan progenitor.
There's little difference to interior space aside from slightly more
generous rear headroom, but the Sport Turismo's boot is a little larger than that of its hatchback sister.
Despite the lower roofline for this generation (slinky styling has its costs), Porsche says
rear headroom remains about the same, which means even taller adults should be plenty pleased with the two - seat accommodations, though three - across seating continues to be unavailable.
With the looks of a classic SUV with no coupe accents, the Porsche provides the best headroom at the front and at the rear, while the BMW sacrificed a few millimeters in terms of
rear headroom compared to the Benz, in order to provide a more elegant side cut - out, in which the plunging rear window seamlessly drops to elongate to roof.
The 60 / 40 - split folding rear seats offer generous legroom (thanks to the fact that the front seats are mounted high enough off the floor), but the sedan's sloping roofline eats
into rear headroom a bit.
Not as much
rear headroom as some rivals, CVT (continuously variable transmission) only, The CVT can be noisy at times with the four - cylinder engine.
In fact,
rear headroom suffers by only 1.2 inches compared with the X5, and the X6's rear seats are quite comfortable.
More front and
rear headroom also make the GLC's ride more comfortable for taller passengers.
There is more rear knee room, but our suspicion that the sloped roofline
impedes rear headroom was confirmed by the numbers: there is 0.3 inch less than before.
Audi is officially suggesting the key visual driver is «elegance» but it's far more purposeful than that, with a sloping roofline that still delivers adult -
passenger rear headroom and plenty of luggage space, but is dominated by the most aggressive grille on any Audi to date.
However, the nimble handling of the Jaguar comes as a result of the sacrifice of some comfort: even in the long wheelbase
models rear headroom is not as good as that found in the Mercedes or Audi.
The other thing to keep in mind here would be the fact four - door coupes have notoriously
bad rear headroom.
While you can't buy a long wheelbase car in the UK, and the sloping roofline
pinches rear headroom, there's still room for two adults in the back — although the LWB S63 feels much bigger.
The last detail has to do with cargo space, which one would assume comes at a premium (much
like rear headroom) because of that steep roof, but Audi thought that out too.
There's still room for four inside, though the sloping roofline does adversely
affect rear headroom.
However, the VXR is somewhat compromised by the fact that it's only available as a three - door, which means its sloping roofline cuts into the
available rear headroom a bit.
Working off the same 2950 mm wheelbase and 5049 mm overall length as the standard wheelbase version of the Panamera saloon, the Sport Turismo keeps the roofline horizontal longer to
grow rear headroom and luggage space marginally.
Also down slightly from its rivals are
rear headroom at 37.3 inches and cargo space.
Having an artful body shell often entails a sacrifice in functionality, but with the RS 7, Audi designers were able to create a visually pleasing roofline while still
preserving rear headroom resulting in a cabin that treats all passengers with equal generosity.
However, the estate body style does mean that there's more
rear headroom here than in the Insignia saloon or hatchback, so anyone looking at those models might want to consider the marginally more expensive Sports Tourer if taller passengers will regularly be using the back seats.
Thanks to optimization of the cabin's packaging, the interior offers
ample rear headroom (978 millimetres).
The 6 GT's sloping roofline detracts from
outright rear headroom and boot space, but this is still a very spacious car
A relatively small boot and
cramped rear headroom means the Volvo V60 doesn't offer the roomy interior you might expect
And Land Rover is likely to move the roofline up by just a few millimetres to maximise packaging gains in the cabin and
improve rear headroom.