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You can not look at head room only. To be comfortable, driver has to have plenty of head room>shoulder room>elbow room>knee room>leg room. All those are different parameters and very subjective. Also, it depends on how long a trip driver does in one run.
This, lol.
My two main vehicles are a 2005 Dodge Ram quad cab and 2002 Suzuki Vitara 4 door. The Suzuki is a great around town car, but about an hour of seat time is my limit before I need a break....leg room is fine, but everything else feels cramped. The Dodge on the other hand? I've done 24 hour drives in it without a problem. Though the absolute best road trip car, comfort wise, I've ever had was a Volvo 850 wagon. Not nearly as much interior room as the Dodge, but everything just seemed to fit perfectly to me.
Dad thinks his '99 Corvette is the perfect road trip car, and I can't stand to be in the thing for more than a couple of hours..yet I drove my '96 Camaro across the country without issue and he was the one that couldn't stand to be in that car for more than an hour.
I am looking to buy a compact SUV, along the lines of a RAV4, Escape, CRV, etc. Before I waste my time getting into sardine cans for a test drive, I'm wondering if some of you taller guys (I'm 6'2") can advise me which of these models would give me a sufficient amount of leg room.
I recently drove an Explorer as a rental and it gave me plenty of room, but I don't really need anything that size.
Thanks.
My brother is 6'1" and is thinking about a Honda CRV. Not sure if he has actually driven on, though. But he looked at one, and didn't notice anything about the interior size that would be a problem for him. He has wide shoulders and is a big boned man, too. He used to look all cramped in my Subaru Forester. Foresters have a smaller shoulder width than comparable suvs.
BTW, Consumer Reports online gives stats for vehicle (or used to). Important stats that tell you how big a person will fit are:
leg room - front driver
leg room - front passenger
shoulder width - driver
shoulder width - passenger
head room - front
When you compare several comp cars, you can see which ones have a larger interior. Oddly enough, that is not the same as having the same exterior width. Some are just designed in such a way as to have more interior room (I think Hondas are).
The interior dimensions can be misleading though. If you look at my pics on previous page both are within a fraction of an inch of each other on the official measurement. But the Forte5 has tons of spare room while my knee is right up against the console of the RAV4.
As they say picture is worth a thousand words. Headroom is a non-issue in both.
Rav4:
Forte5:
Knee room is my issue as well. Most comfortable car I ever owned was a 1999 Ford Taurus with no center console. OP, try a full size pickup truck or bare bones GM SUV without a center console.
I find the opposite. I'm 6'7 and a Mini Cooper, GTI, and other small hatches/sporty compact coupes are the cars that fits me best, yet I struggle with a 4Runner and other large vehicles. Bigger cars tend to give more priority to back seats than driver leg room.
I drive a new Ford Taurus for work and the driver leg room is horrible for a car that size. My son has a Toyota Matrix and we can easily fit four six footers in it.
Not only butt, but legs and torso. Wife is 5'10" and I am 6'1". We have a new Mazda CX-5 GT. Her torso is longer than mine, but my legs are longer - meaning that she has slightly less headroom than me. I wish the power seat would go back another inch or two. It slides forward to about 3 inches of the steering wheel....
My car is a Ford Edge, which is the step up from the Escape and I find it very comfortable.
Also depends on what your budget is and why you want a compact SUV.
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