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Vauxhall Grandland review - Boot space, practicality & dimensions

“While it has a big boot and interior space is good, the Grandland is let down by limited footroom”

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4.1 out of 5

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4.5 out of 5

Vauxhall has tried to focus more on interior space for this generation of Vauxhall Grandland, and it shows. There’s lots of room for passengers with plenty of legroom and headroom up front despite the large centre console. The sense of space is improved thanks to the windscreen that’s set far ahead of the front occupants, too. 

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Rear passengers get a good amount of head and legroom, too, but there’s unfortunately not a lot of footroom given how the front seats are positioned ahead of them, despite the fact that the car’s wheelbase is 109mm longer than that of the old car.

Size comparison

Model 

Length

Width

Height

Vauxhall Grandland

4,650mm

2,108mm

1657mm

Nissan Qashqai

4,425mm

1,835mm

1,625mm

Renault Scenic

4,470mm

1,864mm

1,571mm

Volkswagen Tiguan

4,539mm

1,842mm

1,658mm

Does the Vauxhall Grandland have a big boot?

The Vauxhall Grandland has been designed to have the same boot capacity whether you go for the mild-hybrid or the electric model. With 550 litres available, it’s larger than the boot of the outgoing model by a whole 36 litres. Folding the rear seats down increases the load space to 1,645 litres, which is actually only three litres larger than the space offered in the last model when the seats were folded.

Boot space comparison

Model 

Boot space

Vauxhall Grandland

550 litres

Renault Scenic

572 litres

Nissan Qashqai

504 litres

Volkswagen Tiguan

652 litres

Is the Vauxhall Grandland a good tow car?

The Vauxhall isn’t the most capable tow car, but you can probably tow a small trailer full of garden waste, for example, with a maximum braked towing weight of up to 1100kg for the mild hybrid model, and 1200kg for the electric version.

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Charlie writes and edits news, review and advice articles for Carbuyer, as well as publishing content to its social media platforms. He has also been a regular contributor to its sister titles Auto Express, DrivingElectric and evo. As well as being consumed by everything automotive, Charlie is a speaker of five languages and once lived in Chile, Siberia and the Czech Republic, returning to the UK to write about his life-long passion: cars.

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