We enter a battle of wills with our middle-row seats and assess the Carnival’s fitness for antiquing/estate-sale rummaging.
arrived, I couldn't wait to clear all the furniture out of the Carnival to assess its chops as a cargo-hauler. And let me preface this update with a reminder that way back before the start of my 31-year car-scribbling career, I served as an interior-packaging engineer at Chrysler, working on the
minivans. Hopefully this lends some credibility that my having never borne actual children might otherwise undermine.My first Facebook Marketplace purchase with our Carnival was a lightly used Honda push mower. To bring it home I only had to collapse the third-row seats and slide the second row fully forward. Folding the way-back row seems nearly identical to the procedure inAlthough this freed up ample space, I was dismayed to find no useful tie-down points for securing my wheeled cargo.
At least sliding the seats forward greatly improves the Kia's nominal 86.9-cubic-foot space behind the second row, though not quite as much as
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