Seats are supportive, comfortable without being soft. A long day's drive doesn't leave one's bum numb or even demanding a good stretch. Glass area is more than adequate, especially the side windows. The steep rake of the windshield, however, brings the inside rearview mirror quite close to the driver's face, requiring a conscious turn of the head to scan. Power controls for the front seats mimic the metaphoric controls popularized by Mercedes-Benz and are as readily understood. Mounted as they are on the doors (like Mercedes does), however, makes manipulating them somewhat awkward.

Interior room is comparable with that of full-size and midsize cars. The front seats offer excellent head room and leg room. Rear-seat passengers enjoy good head room but leg room and hip room are a little lacking, though the limo-like openings of the rear doors is some compensation.

The Amanti doesn't offer the cargo space of some of the full-size cars, the trunk is fully finished and the inside pull-down spares fingers from the dirt and muck that road trips routinely leave on a car's trunk lid.

The glove box is unusual, with the top third fitted with two cubbies to keep small items from rattling around. Otherwise, interior storage includes the usual door-mounted map pockets, seatback-mounted magazine racks, and cup holders. Three accessory power points are provided, one at the base of the center stack, another in the center console and the other on the back end of the center console for rear seat use. Missing, though, is a detent in the center console rim to allow a cellular telephone cord to fit beneath the closed console cover.

All controls, save for the front-seat power buttons, are conveniently placed and return good tactile feel. Climate controls and stereo functions and settings are managed by familiar and user-friendly knobs, buttons and roller switches. The sound system lives up to promise, with good radio reception and quality sound. Headliner-mounted assist grips are nicely damped front and rear, the latter fitted with garment hooks. All four windows have one-touch up/down.

The dash-mounted monitor that comes with the Leather Package is under-utilized, a four-inch display surely can handle more than the usual trip computer info, time, date and audio selection, and it's redundant, as the same data can be called up in the instrument cluster.