Cars & Concepts

Room to grow: Why more SUVs, crossovers are getting useful third rows

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Third-row legroom in the 2021 Cadillac Escalade, top, grew about 10 inches, while the Jeep Grand Cherokee gained a third row, below. (AUTOMOTIVE NEWS ILLUSTRATION)
January 03, 2022 05:00 AM

After years of boasts over the expanding size of their infotainment screens, automakers seem to have collectively moved on to a new measuring contest with which to extol their own virtues: third-row real estate.

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