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Category: 4x4 Prices: £27,490-£34,535
Per month: £655 Key rival: Nissan Pathfinder
While the exterior styling grows on you, the dash is poorly laid out and the optional satnav and upgraded stereo system (part of a £3000 entertainment pack including rear DVD player) particularly confusing. In a week of driving, we never worked out how to turn the TP travel information on.
The gearbox may have been simple to use but it intrudes so much into the driver's footwell that if you're wearing hefty shoes or boots your left foot will sit underneath the brake pedal. It doesn't stop you braking, but feels uncomfortable on longer journeys because you can't rest your foot or leg far enough left.
There's reasonable room and comfort from all seven seats, particularly if you only put kids in the rear-most pair. But again there's a design flaw. When the back two seats are folded, the boot becomes particularly shallow if you want to keep luggage below the window line. And because the seats (when folded) sit in the boot floor, rather than folding below, it contributes to one of Commander's most annoying flaws.
Topping off these design annoyances is the poor costs figures, primarily caused by depreciation that sits nearly £4000 worse than its next nearest competitor - the result being a cost per mile also far worse than its rivals.