I never understand this baby argument. When I am loading my baby into his isofix in my estate. It is at waste height which is the correct posture to be at when manual handling an object.
The T-Roc isn’t massively higher up remember, it’s just a bit higher than a regular Golf, but it’s enough to make a difference for my wife with her back problems.
In my RS3 she has to bend down to put him in his car seat which puts strain on certain areas, with the T-Roc she can load in horizontally at a reasonable level he is normally carried at by her without having to lower any load (it’s a fixed spinny car seat).
Similar for the boot, it’s at the level she would carry stuff at, not lifting ‘up’ to get stuff in.
So it all makes a massive difference for her.
I also drove a 1800 mile stint in an estate and my back was fresh and fine afterward. No weird problems or medical conditions arose from it either.
Bit of an odd comment/comparison in the context, comparing someone who has diagnosed issues which are relatively sensitive to stuff like posture with vehicle, getting in and out etc, to someone who doesn’t have those driving a car normally. Why would you have problems or medical conditions arise from driving a car on a long stint or otherwise unless you had a condition in the first place?
I’m not saying here it’s a matter of comfort from a long drive, that’s totally different, or knocking the comfort of an estate.
I used to do 20k a year in an S2000 and it was fine for me, took her in it for a weekend away and it absolutely ruined her back.
Interior plastics on the T-Roc are nasty though. Hard and scratchy coz it’s an off-roader innit?
It was one of the things I was least liking about the car from what I remember about the test drive, but after a minute or two in the car it soon becomes a non issue.
The bits that are hard scratchy rather than soft plastics are actually pretty minimal, the interior trim decoration and centre console is all the usual type of materials (Piano black decorative trim, and the entertainment and controls are straight out of a Golf).
It’s just some of the surrounding materials on the dash and centre console, but as much as I was prepared to hate them it really isn’t an issue.
And there’s bits of the interior that are better than the Golf I had, the seats for instance have a much nicer trim and are part leather as standard unlike the full cloth in the Golf.
Of course I seem to spend most of my time sat in the back with the little one at the moment whenever I do go in it...
