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- 2024 CX90 PHEV Premium Plus
I was at my dealer this morning for the 25K service on my 2019 CX-9 GT FWD and while there took the opportunity to check out the CX-90 since I'll be in the market for a new car in 2025. Overall it's a lot like the CX-9 in my opinion, but a deal breaker for me is the even more miserly interior storage space. For example the center console is only about 2" deep unless that was just some kind of removable tray I couldn't figure out how to take out and the door pockets are 1/3 smaller.
The CX-9 was behind the competition with interior space and flexible storage options to begin with but our CX-9 worked just fine for us. The most frustrating part of our CX90 is the storage. It literally has half the interior storage that the CX-9 does. And what’s there is frustrating to use.
Some examples….
The way the door pockets are positioned underneath the big, chunky door pull handles, especially on the driver side, make it challenging to easily slip a water bottle in and out of the tiny door pocket.
The door pockets are smaller. And with the shape of the door armrest, it is awkward to access. In the CX-9, reaching down to grab the hanging placard for carpool pick up was transparent. I would drop my arm down, grab it and pick it up. The CX 90, I have to lean sideways and contort my arm to reach down into the door pocket.
The space behind the third row is supposed to be a cubic foot larger but that must come from the height because the space itself is not as deep and not as wide. We can’t even fit a large pizza box behind the third row seat or the hatch will hit it and stop. We have to put the third row down to carry pizza boxes. Or if we have passengers back there, everybody gets to hold a scalding hot pizza box Of course we would not make the kids do that, but this does make us reconsider our dinner plans when we run errands.
Speaking of the cargo area, there is no storage underneath anymore. It was perfect to put eggs, bread, and other soft, packaged groceries. Now we have to use the third row to place groceries and if the kids are back there, they have to hold them until we get home. We can’t always put the third row down because we either have passengers, or with the third row down, now you don’t have a confined space to hold groceries in and keep them from flying around.
The cupholder tray in the second row between the captains chairs is an absolute joke. Not only is it flimsy and does not hold larger water bottles, you can’t reach it if you’re going through a drive-through and need a couple of extra spaces from the driver seat. And it blocks third row access.
When little things, like convenient storage that you access every day, are frustrating to use, it gets annoying.
Edit: typos
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