2007 Honda Element SC First Drive
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TO THE POINT What's New? The 2007 Honda Element gets more power while improving fuel efficiency, gains standard safety equipment including side-curtain airbags and stability control, and receives minor tweaks to the styling and décor. The Element SC takes things a step further, with a customized look, a lower and stiffer suspension, and 18-inch wheels and tires.
Selling Points: Extremely functional for daily living, comfortable, loads of personality, good fuel economy, strong crash scores, reputation for reliability, lots of cargo room
Deal Breakers: Rear seats are fussy to stow or remove, clamshell doors a liability in tight parking spaces
Our Advice: If you're looking for an affordable do-it-all kind of vehicle that is safe, durable, fuel efficient, and comfortable, you've found it.

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Click to enlarge. Honda Element SC Comfort Nobody will complain about comfort levels in the 2007 Honda Element. Visibility from the back seat, maybe, but not comfort. All four occupants get plenty of room for feet, legs, and heads.

There's lots of space inside the 2007 Honda Element, even if it only holds four people. Thanks to comfortable seats front and rear, a nicely padded center console lid that is unexpected in a car at this price, plenty of leg room for everyone, and enough headroom to wear that cheesy sombrero you picked up in Tijuana, nobody is going to complain about comfort. Rear passengers might complain about the limited view out, and not just because of your oversized Mexican trinket, but they'll be comfortable while doing so.

Note that the Element's new integrated front seatbelts really help entry into and exit from the rear seat. Before, front seat occupants needed to bother with unclipping and re-fastening their seatbelts every time a third or fourth passenger was added or subtracted. Not anymore, thanks to seatbelts that feed from the front seats. Also note that there's no rear sunroof in the SC model, which comes standard on the EX. Not that it's useful for much, anyway.


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