Am I wrong? It seems to me a trend over the last decade is to put the driver into a lower position in the car. When I get in a vehicle like the Lexus RX 350 the hood is high and my seating position is so low (even with the seat up as high as it can go ) I can hardly see the road. I want a seat up high enough and the hood down enough that I feel like I am looking down at the road. This just isn't the situation any more with most cars. With most cars I feel like I'm sitting down in a hole. The whole look and feel is that the seat is too low and the hood is to high. Sometimes I'll get the seat up high enough, but then my head is bent over from hitting the roof. The Audi sedans are horrible this way. Raise up the seat and my head hits the roof, lower it down and I'm straining my neck up just to see where the road is.
Looking at the car, it's a weird combination of an SUV and a sportscar. Engineers can't make up their minds. Sportscar, or family hauler? You can't have both, especially with SUVs. The growing trend is to use less and less greenhouse space (less room for windows) in order to "maximize" aerodynamics, as if SUVs are aerodynamic, which they aren't. The concept of an "SUV" these days is just a glorified family hauler with low ground clearance, etc. in other words, not really an SUV. They're all unibodies, not body-on-frame vehicles that are truck based.
Audis are a little different. They're designed to be sporty. My Mustang is the same way. I can't see very well until after the hood disappears. I stay farther back; the nose doesn't really give too much of a reference point.
Thank you. It's maddening. Are there extenders of some sort I can put in to raise the seat? Thanks
I noticed that too. Hate it. Feels like a coffin
Yes, it does. I've rejected buying about 5 different cars for only this reason.