The subtle shapes sculpted into what is essentially a slab-sided design take away from just that, and there's a 'style of strength' built into the whole look. The back door has its own gentle curves too, but not too much so as to get in the way of heads or ferried hatstands. God big light clusters and a gentle dip in the back window shape also ease the metal visual load. The whole car is topped off with roof rails, ideal and one friend figured, for tying the fishing rods to. So also in the furniture, with the velour seat material in the review car being of very high quality and good luxury.
Comfort follows, of course.
So did the plastics choices in the MPV, which seemed to me to be of a significantly better better kind than in many cars even at this price level. All that said, of course, you have to remove seats to get much of that flexibility, and nobody seems to have yet come up in this size with the excellent foldaway arrangement pioneered by Opel in its Zafira. But there ARE bottle holders in the doors, cupholders for pretty well everyone, a good drawer under the front passenger's seat, and a covered well in the rear to pop flattish things out of the way. Access for people is reasonably good, thanks to sliding rear doors on each side. I found the best way was through the back door itself, with a gap between the two seats making entry and egress possible, if not decorous.