Those rearmost seats fold down, turning the already generous 24.4 cubic feet of luggage space into 68.8 cubic feet.
And finally
the rearmost seats fold flat into the floor.
The Santa Fe's boot is an impressive 585 litres for five - seat models and 516 litres in the seven - seater with the two
rearmost seats folded down.
This increases to 1,137 litres with
the rearmost seats folded down, meaning there's more luggage room on offer than in its main rivals.
Not exact matches
Storage cubbies are also decently sized, and the trunk's a far more usable 49.9 cubic feet with the
rearmost row of
seats folded away — not only is the load bay completely flat, but the lack of a trunk lip and the boxy shape of the cargo area means the Nissan Armada should comfortably swallow up larger amounts of luggage with relative ease.
Access to the front two rows is brilliant, while
folding and tumbling the middle row leaves lots of room to clamber up to the
rearmost seats.
Manufacturers have then been forced to make nicer and nicer boxes, with luxury exquipment and clever features like
rearmost seats that
fold flat into the floor.
The 60/40 split second row first
folds, then tips forward, granting comparatively good access to the
rearmost seats; the action is manual in lower - spec models and power - actuated in higher trim levels.
That
rearmost seat, as it has for years on Hondas,
folds completely flat into the floor, upping cargo room from a still - healthy 38.4 cubic feet, to 91.1 cubic feet.
Fold the
rearmost seats away and you liberate estate car - rivalling levels of carrying capacity.
The new, more upmarket interior also gets a new
seating setup that allows the
seats to be
folded to create a flat floor, with 1040 litres of space with just the
rearmost pair of
seats folded and a massive 1980 litres with the middle row
folded flat.
The MDX doesn't give you much room for groceries with all three rows of
seating in use, but
folding those
rearmost seats opens up a respectable amount of space suitable for lengthy road trips.