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  • we're outside of Baltimore with

  • motorWeek to figure out what's the best

  • three-row SUV of 2016

  • we spent a week putting eight

  • competitors to the test here's how they

  • did the contenders are the dodge durango

  • ford explorer GMC acadia on the pilot

  • hyundai santafe kia sorento mazda cx-9

  • and nissan pathfinder the pathfinder has

  • a lot of potential

  • it's got some things going for it very

  • comfortable seats are comfortable

  • interior is very bright and airy but on

  • the downside of that comfortableness

  • because it really kind of roly-poly

  • flimsy feel on the road and the cbt well

  • it's much better than it used to be is

  • still very droney when it comes to

  • engine noise coming out of that the

  • pathfinder has been refreshed for 2017

  • however they dipped it in a bucket of

  • bland it has a boring exterior the

  • inside is somehow even more boring

  • looking and it just doesn't stand out

  • from the crowd the Pathfinders dashboard

  • is filled with buttons and knobs and the

  • busy interface wasn't that easy to use

  • the hyundai santa fe doesn't feel quite

  • as refined as some of the other ones in

  • this group but it does make up for it

  • with a boatload of features for the

  • price for just over 43,000 dollars the

  • Santa Fe comes with adaptive cruise

  • control and lane departure warning

  • these are great safety features to help

  • keep you safe on the road

  • typical hyundai with the Saturday you

  • get a lot of features for the money but

  • the material quality maybe not the best

  • quality certainly not the best and is

  • for me anyway the seats by far the least

  • comfortable in the Explorer it's a

  • multi-step process to fold the third row

  • seats into the floor you have to pull

  • the straps in a certain sequence to get

  • it to flip and tumble the design of the

  • Explorers folding third row is different

  • than the competition and it gives it a

  • deeper cargo space when all seats are up

  • the new sink system really nails it

  • it took what had been a deal breaker and

  • makes it potentially a dealmaker the

  • Explorer only has USB ports in the first

  • row so that leaves the second and third

  • row passengers fighting to get some time

  • with that charger the Durango's more

  • truck like appearance and a macho brass

  • monkey package that it had on it clearly

  • made it 23 row with attitude in this

  • group one of things I didn't like about

  • the Drago's it feels large and the most

  • truck like of the models we tested the

  • Durango's you connect touchscreen

  • multimedia system remains one of the

  • easier ones to use in this class in the

  • dodge durango there's a great button in

  • the multimedia system and what it does

  • is it allows you to fold down the third

  • row head restraints while you're sitting

  • in the front row

  • that's great because it really improves

  • rear visibility with its latest redesign

  • there's a lot to like about the cx-9 the

  • interior materials very nice and as

  • always it has one of the best mix of

  • ride and handling of the group the CX

  • nights turbo-4 and tight chassis make it

  • the driver's choice among these three

  • rows but it does so at the expense of

  • small cabin noise and kind of a busy

  • ride on the downside of the cx-9 the

  • dash layout doesn't really work for me

  • looks very awkward screen kind of

  • sticking up out of nowhere controller

  • hard to use the cx-9 doesn't give you as

  • many amenities for the money there's a

  • small sunroof there's no vented front

  • seats it doesn't have apple carplay or

  • Android auto while the sorrento shares

  • the mechanicals with its corporate

  • cousin hyundai santafe i think it may

  • have beaten it in terms of better ride

  • and a quieter cabin longer road trips

  • will be a breeze in the sorrento with

  • its supportive comfortable front-row

  • seats that are heated and cooled limited

  • legroom and Nehru made the Sorrento's

  • third row one of the least comfortable

  • in our tests in the sorrento you'll need

  • to pack light

  • there's only 11.3 cubic feet of cargo

  • space behind the third row acadia has

  • pretty much all of the attack and safety

  • features you could want and probably one

  • of the best ride quality hear what I

  • don't like about it is they've made a

  • lot smaller now and so there's a lot

  • less room especially for cargo and i

  • feel like i'm paying just as much for a

  • lot

  • kitty is about 600 pounds lighter and

  • little more than seven inches shorter

  • and overall length it finally gives GM a

  • direct competitor to the market leaders

  • in this segment in the acadia there's a

  • button that allows parents to lock out

  • the rear climate controls its for those

  • times when the kids can't stop pushing

  • the buttons and they're driving you

  • crazy while legroom in the second row is

  • plentiful in the acadia in the third row

  • it's really tight so you better hope

  • that the person in the second row is

  • willing to share

  • I'm six feet tall and I couldn't find a

  • good spot the kitty a steering wheel

  • that didn't block the instrument panel

  • the pilot wasn't necessarily the most

  • fun to drive in this group but excels at

  • what I think are the factors that

  • probably will be most important to

  • buyers in this segment it has really

  • smartly designed family features

  • throughout the vehicle

  • it also has lots of space for people to

  • spread out lots of cargo room and you

  • get a receipt entertainment system at

  • this price I like tell the pilot

  • second-row seat moves out of the way

  • easily just by pushing a button in the

  • pilot there's a one-touch button that

  • allows the person in the third row to

  • push it and slide the second-row seats

  • forward creating an easy path way out of

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