The Most Spacious And Comfortable Compact Suvs You Can Buy, According To Consumer Reports

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Three-row crossovers are each nan rage these days, but not everyone wants aliases needs 3 afloat rows. For a batch of folks, each they really request is simply a basal two-row crossover that's easy to get successful and retired of, comfortable connected nan roadworthy and offers plentifulness of abstraction for a fewer passengers. If you tin fold down nan backmost seats and haul a bunch of stuff, that's moreover better. Typically, the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4 are considered nan default options successful this segment, since they're known for their value and reliability, but is that still nan case? Or are location amended options retired there?

If you're successful nan marketplace for a compact SUV but besides want to make judge you won't consciousness cramped aliases uncomfortable, our friends complete at Consumer Reports recently put together a database of nan astir freely compact crossovers. But it isn't conscionable a database of nan vehicles pinch nan highest cargo volume. They do their ain tests to fig retired which vehicles really connection nan astir usable cargo room, while besides taking comfortableness and easiness of entree into account. Plus, each conveyance connected this database scored good capable successful testing to earn Consumer Reports' recommendation, meaning they should besides beryllium reliable, well-reviewed and safe.

Let's return a look astatine what made nan list, successful descending bid of wide roominess.

The Honda CR-V is 1 of nan champion compact crossovers you tin buy, and if you tin plaything it, likelihood are you'll for illustration nan hybrid type amended than nan gas-only one. According to nan EPA, nan front-wheel-drive type of nan hybrid gets 40 mpg combined, which is simply a important betterment complete nan 30 mpg you get from nan state model. So while nan hybrid does costs astir $5,000 more, you'll besides get 33% better state mileage. 

Regardless of which type of nan CR-V you get, it's sewage plentifulness of room successful some nan beforehand and backmost seats, and it besides offers 37 cubic feet of cargo abstraction erstwhile you put nan rear spot down. Consumer Reports besides commended nan CR-V for really easy it is to get successful and retired of nan 2nd row. The only existent disapproval it had for nan CR-V is that nan compartment tin beryllium a spot large astatine times.

Like nan CR-V, nan Hyundai Tucson is well-reviewed, and Consumer Reports powerfully prefers nan hybrid complete nan gas-only version. For comparison, while nan CR-V Hybrid and Tucson Hybrids earned wide scores of 83 and 82, respectively, nan state versions earned scores of 79 and 76. That's partially owed to nan hybrid's superior substance system (38 mpg mixed versus 28 mpg combined), but you besides get much powerfulness and a amended wide package. As Consumer Reports put it, "the Tucson Hybrid is simply a overmuch amended SUV than nan nonhybrid version."

Also for illustration nan CR-V, nan Tucson earned praise for its freely interior and generous cargo space. With nan rear seats down, you besides get 38.5 cubic feet of cargo space, beating nan CR-V. And if you don't for illustration really large nan CR-V is, expect nan Tucson Hybrid to besides connection a quieter cabin. You conscionable whitethorn not emotion nan cogwheel selector, which isn't astir arsenic intuitive arsenic different file shifters.

If nan Hyundai Tucson made nan list, you had to expect its firm cousin, nan Kia Sportage, to make an appearance. And what do you know, not only is it here, but judge it aliases not, Consumer Reports besides powerfully prefers nan hybrid. Then again, it's besides nan MPG champ of nan SUVs that person appeared connected this database truthful far, earning an EPA standing of 43 mpg combined. Plus, it's "quicker, quieter" and "has a smoother ride." 

It's besides astir arsenic freely arsenic compact SUVs get, and pinch nan rear seats down Consumer Reports measured 38 cubic feet of cargo room. That said, it besides isn't rather arsenic refined arsenic immoderate of nan competition, losing points for some agility and braking, arsenic good arsenic its confusing controls. In summation to a capacitive-touch power panel, nan Sportage besides uses a rotary displacement knob that whitethorn return immoderate getting utilized to.

If you inquire Consumer Reports, nan Subaru Forester is fundamentally a cleanable vehicle. It mislaid points for not being rather arsenic speedy arsenic Consumer Reports' testers would prefer, but beyond that, they fundamentally had zero complaints. With an wide trial people of 93, nan Forester is nan top-rated crossover successful its class. That said, it besides isn't particularly sporty, and nan hybrid's EPA standing of 35 mpg mixed intends it isn't rather arsenic businesslike arsenic immoderate of nan different hybrids connected this list. Meanwhile, nan state type is rated astatine 29 mpg, and dissimilar immoderate of its competitors, all-wheel thrust comes standard.

You whitethorn find nan beforehand spot cushion excessively short if you person longer legs, but arsenic agelong arsenic that doesn't fuss you, you'll get a spacious, comfortable compartment pinch an arsenic freely rear seat. Cargo measurement pinch nan rear seats down besides came successful astatine 38.5 cubic feet, matching nan Hyundai Tucson. Plus, Consumer Reports said it was capable to fresh 4 ample suitcases successful nan backmost pinch nan rear seats still up.  

There's a caller Toyota RAV4 coming soon, truthful if you tin hold a small while longer, you'll either get a freshly redesigned SUV, aliases you'll astir apt extremity up redeeming a small other connected nan outgoing model. If you spell pinch nan 2025 model, you'll decidedly consciousness its age, pinch its noisy motor and somewhat stiff ride. This is besides different business wherever Consumer Reports strongly preferred nan hybrid. You'll get 39 mpg mixed alternatively of 30, but nan hybrid is besides quicker and much enjoyable to drive. 

But while nan RAV4 did people good capable connected comfortableness and abstraction to make this list, it's not nan 1 you'll want to bargain if your extremity is to battalion arsenic overmuch worldly into nan backmost arsenic possible. Consumer Reports only measured 30.5 cubic feet of cargo abstraction pinch nan rear seats down, which is simply a batch little than you'll find successful astir of its competitors. Still, it's a Toyota, truthful for a batch of people, that won't matter. Consumer Reports besides recommends nan plug-in-hybrid version, which includes 42 miles of electrical range.

Unless you've rented a car recently, it's astir apt been a while since you moreover thought astir nan Nissan Rogue. But while it still isn't nan best-reviewed conveyance successful nan segment, there's a bully chance nan current-generation Rogue is besides a batch amended than you mightiness think. That said, you can't get a hybrid type of nan Rogue yet, truthful you'll person to beryllium OK pinch nan guidelines model's EPA standing of 33 mpg combined. Adding all-wheel thrust does driblet that standing down to 31 mpg, though.

While nan three-cylinder motor whitethorn person immoderate vibration issues while idling, nan conveyance itself is some freely and easy to get into and retired of. Drop nan rear seats, and you'll besides get a RAV4-beating 36.5 cubic feet of cargo room. If nan value is right, nan Rogue whitethorn beryllium worthy looking astatine much seriously, particularly if you for illustration an SUV pinch intuitive, easy-to-use controls.

While some SUVs will almost decidedly beryllium driven exclusively connected nan road, you tin deliberation of nan Mazda CX-50 arsenic nan CX-5's chunkier, much adventurous-looking sibling. And you person to admit, it does look beautiful darn good. If you spell for nan guidelines engine, it'll astir apt consciousness a small underpowered, but if that's a problem, there's ever nan turbocharged type pinch its further 69 horsepower (nice). That said, if substance system is simply a priority, you whitethorn want to look astatine nan 38-mpg CX-50 Hybrid.

Regardless of which type you spell with, you get comfortable beforehand seats, a freely rear spot pinch doors that Consumer Reports praised for opening particularly wide. Drop nan rear seats, and you besides get a RAV4-beating 34 cubic feet of cargo space, each successful a package that's besides acold amended looking than nan RAV4. But if you spell for nan 20-inch wheels, you whitethorn find nan thrust feels a small excessively stiff for your liking.