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What's the leg room and seat width in those things? I am wondering whether a three-row Yaris could comfortably fit a modern American man - tall and with borderline-obese BMI - in any of its 7 seats.

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3rd seats on JDM subcompact minivans are small even for Japanese, so like for children or emergency. It's fine for the purpose. https://youtu.be/8KHrR0FKs9Q?t=1223

2nd seat leg and head room is great, but possibly the seat size is a bit small for US fat people.

Yep, that video shows it well! Third row is a little tight, but I'm 6'1" and sat there for a 5 hour drive with my duffel on my lap, haha. I think I had it better than the three larger folks sharing the middle row. So it would fit 4 adults and two kids quite comfortably (and for the discussion at hand, it would fit a family of 6 or 7 just fine, just have to keep luggage down as the back seats take up much of the trunk)

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