It's not a height thing, but rather a matter of width. In a lot of four-door cars (particularly the smaller Fords), the front seats are mounted so that back ends up being a few inches behind the B-pillar, and when you're as wide as me, wedging yourself in and out of there without being able to pull the steering wheel off, F1-style, gets a trifle wearing after a while. It wasn't a catastrophic fail (as, for instance, the door/seat geometry in the Mazda 3, which is tragic), but it got annoying over the two months I had the rental Focus, and a test drive of the C-Max was enough to show that it would have been pretty much the same situation.

>And the automatic features are really nice. I still think it's magic
>that the wipers turn on automatically based on how much water is on
>the windshield. (Yes, I looked up how it actually works, doesn't
>change the fact that it's cool)

That reminds me of another thing I noticed about the C-Max, actually, which is that the greenhouse is (proportionally) enormous. Which is great for visibility, it's like a tiny van, but I wouldn't want to have to try and keep the inside of that windshield clean. :)

>Plus the thing will parallel-park
>itself which is great, considering I absolutely HATE parallel parking.

My mother is turning the age where you have to go and re-take your driver's test pretty soon, and she lobbied for me to buy the C-Max or a similarly equipped Focus so she could use that feature to cheat on the test. I allowed as I doubted the examiner wouldn't notice that.

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