i think for me the car is big but not too big, its comfy on long trips (sydney to melbourne) & its a nice car to drive. we have car seats the size of the maxi rider so space between them isn't huge, would be a lot more room if you had smaller car seats or kids in booster seats.

im shortish but don't find vision out the back a problem, but then mine has a reversing camera (and reversing sensors which are probably standard).

im not sure where you live but what we did was hire the cars (one from budget but also holden near here hires them) we were thinking about getting (we were looking at the mitsubishi outlander and mazda cx7) so we could try them out for the whole day and put the car seats in etc found it better than just having a short test drive