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IS the Outlook a 7 seater, does it have the middle bench option for 8? Looked at it online and could not really get the seating spec.
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I don't think the Outlook is available since Saturn was dissolved. Or is it still?
When we bought our Outlook we spec'd it out from the factory. We could have gotten the middle captain's seats or the bench. We got the bench. So our's is a true 8 passenger vehicle.
The thing about the Outlook is it has a flat floor from front to back row, so the third row has plenty of leg room. Unlike the other vehicles that started out on a truck platform, and the rear seat is bolted to the trunk space. Getting in and out of one of those is not as easy with the flip foward middle row seats.
The Outlook has middle row seats with flip forward backs and the bottom cushions flip up and everything flods together and slids forward making it easy to get the the back row. We have big boys too. the 14 yr old is 5'11" alread and the 16 yr old is 6'1" maybe. Even the 6'+ kid is comfortable enough in the back row.
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just remembered. my friend has an ACURA MDX with the 3rd row. huge and powerful.
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Getting in and out of the MDX's third row is a pain in the arse and the third row is basically bolted to the trunk...so it's a "squeeze behind the middle row and climb up into the trunk" routine. The wife really wanted the MDX and we were going to buy it with the thought that there was no other "smallish" 3-row seater available. The second she saw how the middle seats of the Outlook folds out of the way, she forgot about the MDX.
Although the Outlook appears small, it really isn't. It is smaller than a Suburban and the like, but it is pretty big. Infact the interior space is larger than that of a Tahoe. The back area, with all the seats folded down is bigger than that of the Tahoe. With all the seats folded down, I can lay down (think sleeping at the track) without my head or feet touching the front seats or tailgate..with room to spare. I'm 5'10.5".
The average fuel mileage on a 2500 mile road trip to Florida and back packed with 5 kids and stuff was 18 MPG with a lot of 70-80 MPH speed time.
The wifey gets probably 16 MPH on her commute (alot of stop and go). I drove it with MPG in mind once across town and I got 18 MPG. So it's fairly economical for such a large vehicle.
ETA: we also have the AWD version with the towing and touring package, so maybe we get slightly less MGP than the 2WD version.
ETA2: we have two baby seats in our's, once facing foward and one rearward in the middle row. We can still fold one seat to give access to the third row, and there's room for an adult in the middle row still!