I had to take my bike home. I rode it into work and never bothered riding it back home again, having taking a company car instead. So it just sat in our store room for a week or so, taking up space and picking up dust. "When are you going to take your bike home?" the editors asked me...
I know, I know.
So I signed up to take the Outlander home. At first I was afraid that the Electra wouldn't fit in there since the Mitsu seems smaller than the huge FJ and it was a struggle getting it in that SUV. But then a little research revealed that the cargo room in the Outlander XLS is actually larger than the FJ's (73 cubic feet vs. 67 cubic feet). It even has a third-row seat -- seating seven as opposed to the FJ's five -- that can stow away and provide a flat floor.
And then I worried that the black leather backs of the second-row seats would get all scuffed up and so I borrowed the sheepskin rugs that were discarded from our new old Ferrari. However, I didn't know that I wouldn't need those since the 60/40-split second-row seats actually fold neatly out of the way. To make things even easier, the two-piece tailgate! The bike could be rolled into the cargo area instead of requiring a heave and a ho.
In the FJ, I was afraid that the hard black plastic would scuff up the shiny red paint of my bike, but with the Outlander's carpeted interior I had no such worries. The bike looked as snug as a bug back there compared to how it was in the FJ.
Production Editor Caroline Pardilla
So I signed up to take the Outlander home. At first I was afraid that the Electra wouldn't fit in there since the Mitsu seems smaller than the huge FJ and it was a struggle getting it in that SUV. But then a little research revealed that the cargo room in the Outlander XLS is actually larger than the FJ's (73 cubic feet vs. 67 cubic feet). It even has a third-row seat -- seating seven as opposed to the FJ's five -- that can stow away and provide a flat floor.
And then I worried that the black leather backs of the second-row seats would get all scuffed up and so I borrowed the sheepskin rugs that were discarded from our new old Ferrari. However, I didn't know that I wouldn't need those since the 60/40-split second-row seats actually fold neatly out of the way. To make things even easier, the two-piece tailgate! The bike could be rolled into the cargo area instead of requiring a heave and a ho.
In the FJ, I was afraid that the hard black plastic would scuff up the shiny red paint of my bike, but with the Outlander's carpeted interior I had no such worries. The bike looked as snug as a bug back there compared to how it was in the FJ.
Production Editor Caroline Pardilla
billt9 says:
07:23 PM, 06/20/07
Nice advert for crossovers.
Body on frames be gone!
mrvfr says:
10:05 PM, 06/24/07
If you fold the back seats - it'll fit in the Prius too with less fuss.