Well I think the Panda has poor rear room, in absolute car terms.
I think that word "absolute" is dead on the money! For its size, I think the rear leg-room in the new Panda is pretty good (in fact, comparable to the 1994 Clio we've just scrapped (RIP) -- which I always thought was quite TARDIS-like...); and I was quite happy to sit in the back of it, for an hour or so, during our test-drives. (However, having said that, my partner, who was sat in front of me, driving, is quite -- in her daughter's word(s) -- 'tincy'...!)
Trying to do the same in a 500 was excruciatingly uncomfortable, though: and any ideas we had of occasionally ferrying around our sons (who are both well over six-foot) -- when they come to stay -- in one were soon quashed...!
FIAT, generally, I feel, are pretty good at making the most of interior space -- and even the Punto is pretty good for carrying us and three just about grown-up kids; and we didn't have -- amazingly! -- any complaints on a recent return trip to London (about 80 miles, each way...)!
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