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One year I was at a Chevy dealer when the Aveo first came out. Just for kicks, I sat in the driver's seat and closed the door. While in the driver's seat, the interior felt far larger than its exterior dimensions. Have you experienced this with any other small cars?
When we were at the VW dealer looking at some cars I sat in the new Beetle on the showroom floor. I was shocked how roomy it was! In fact in every car I've ever owned I have had to drive with the drivers seat all the way back. In that Beetle I had to move the seat up just to be in the corrct driving position.
The A3 felt bigger on the inside, especially in the back then it looked. Honda Civics feel decently big, and and the newer Corolla's have rear leg room several inches more than old Crown Vics.
The new Mercedes CLA, with its stylish swoopy roofline, is supposed to be cramped inside, especially in the back seat with a listed 25 cubic foot of space (typical compact sedans have about 35-40 cubes in the back). But it's actually pretty commodious in real life. Only the head room is tight in the rear seats, but I find head room to be an overrated measure of comfort and space. I'm 6'2", and having enough leg room and toe space under seats are a much more important to me than having enough head room.*
* To a degree. I find the vast expanses of leg room in, say, the VW Passat's rear seats to be complete overkill.
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