Day 46: Junk in the Trunk

The Nissan Versa Note is, as I've said in previous posts, not as capacious inside as the Fit due to the load floor being somewhat higher in the cargo area, and significantly higher in the folded seats. The Versa Note does have the ginormous footwells in the backseat which are a blessing and a curse for hauling stuff. The blessing is that you can fit a fair amount of stuff in the footwells with the seats folded down. It's a little tricky getting large items into the footwells with the headrests still on the back seats--they protrude a lot from the seats and require you to slip stuff around them. The main problem though is if there is a box or something on the folded rear seatback, and nothing in the footwell, and you come to a quick stop, the stuff on the seatback will tumble into the footwell if there isn't something there to prop it up. I guess I see why Nissan didn't put a lip on the top of the back of the rear seat as it would impede longish items, but having my stuff tumble was irksome. The rear cargo area is relatively spacious--tonight I fit 8 folding chairs into the space, and was going to pile more stuff on top. All in all, the back is very reasonable for such a compact car.