If your family is anything like mine, you actually need to use the third row in your car. Whether it's picking up Grandma for a family dinner, hauling sixth-graders to the botanic gardens or chauffeuring teenagers to their first homecoming dance, the third row in our family car gets its fair share of abuse — make that use.
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Third-row access in most cars is almost always an exercise in engineering aptitude: flip seat bottom, fold seatback, tumble seat forward, engage ejector ignition and so on. I don't care how easy an automaker claims it is for a 5-year-old to tumble the seat forward singlehandedly to climb into the "way back," it's almost never true. My kids give up on these systems almost instantly, favoring the graceless headfirst dive over the second-row seats into the third row.
There is, however, one exception to the rule. The 2015 Acura MDX's second row tilts and slides out of the way with the push a button with just one finger. The button, which is clearly labeled with an icon of a seat tilting and sliding forward, is found on the base of the second row. To get out of the third row, another button is on the second-row seatback. Press it and voila! The second-row seat tilts and slides forward, allowing third-row passengers to easily exit the crossover. Genius!If only other car manufacturers would adopt this ideal of "simpler is better." Just imagine how pleasant (and, well, simple) your daily commute would be.
Cars.com photos by Evan Sears
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