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I've been looking at vehicles... have driven new Highlander, Atlas, Pilot and Ascent.
I'm a big, 6'5" guy and my misery when looking for cars is generally leg room (seat back to pedals) and how much the door arm guard or center console design bangs my knees.
When driving, my knees tend to rub/rest on the center console and the door armrest on the Atlas and Highlander. Highlander may be tolerable... but the Atlas was very uncomfortable (I've had a Golf in the past... and forgot how annoying the hard plastic edge of the center console could be). This sucked as the Atlas has the most comfortable, deep-seat-base depth, of the cars i tried.
The pilot has a different problem as the shifter is right where my knee ends up.
In the Ascent (and Subarus in general), i find the base seat pad to be way short for my legs. The older gen Forester's felt like a boat cushion and felt like i had a foot of unsupported thigh.
In the Ascent, in the non adjustable seats... i found them to be too short again.
Moving to the adjustable in the Limited/Touring.... it all seems ok... i don't hit the console and door panel in an uncomfortable way. I can tell the whole seat is much firmer then anything else I tried or have driven.
While it looks like the pad of the seat towards the seat back is deep enough...I can feel the divot or space of the expandable seat when i sit and it seems close like my butt is real near it (even though my back/hips are up against the seat back and I'm not slouching).... and i wonder if over time the rear pad's front face will collapse.
Also.. the extended seat portion... part of why i think things seem to work is that when you splay your knees like for a longer drive, the forward portion of your thighs is actually sitting out in the gaps that would exist between the narrow extender and the seat sides/bolsters. It's not fully supporting your thigh...
Without being able to drive one of these for hours on end... wondering if bigger/taller riders can chime in on their experience with these over time.
I'm a big, 6'5" guy and my misery when looking for cars is generally leg room (seat back to pedals) and how much the door arm guard or center console design bangs my knees.
When driving, my knees tend to rub/rest on the center console and the door armrest on the Atlas and Highlander. Highlander may be tolerable... but the Atlas was very uncomfortable (I've had a Golf in the past... and forgot how annoying the hard plastic edge of the center console could be). This sucked as the Atlas has the most comfortable, deep-seat-base depth, of the cars i tried.
The pilot has a different problem as the shifter is right where my knee ends up.
In the Ascent (and Subarus in general), i find the base seat pad to be way short for my legs. The older gen Forester's felt like a boat cushion and felt like i had a foot of unsupported thigh.
In the Ascent, in the non adjustable seats... i found them to be too short again.
Moving to the adjustable in the Limited/Touring.... it all seems ok... i don't hit the console and door panel in an uncomfortable way. I can tell the whole seat is much firmer then anything else I tried or have driven.
While it looks like the pad of the seat towards the seat back is deep enough...I can feel the divot or space of the expandable seat when i sit and it seems close like my butt is real near it (even though my back/hips are up against the seat back and I'm not slouching).... and i wonder if over time the rear pad's front face will collapse.
Also.. the extended seat portion... part of why i think things seem to work is that when you splay your knees like for a longer drive, the forward portion of your thighs is actually sitting out in the gaps that would exist between the narrow extender and the seat sides/bolsters. It's not fully supporting your thigh...
Without being able to drive one of these for hours on end... wondering if bigger/taller riders can chime in on their experience with these over time.