I'm glad you like your Focus and you fit so well in it with your large size. I read that Ford has recently been using a database to design cars that takes into account people of all sizes and it is making a difference.

I am especially interested in this because I want to buy a new car for my father, 6 foot tall, 380 lbs. It is very hard to find information on this subject that is helpful. I want to narrow the choices to one or two before I bring one to his house to take him on a test drive.

If you would have any comments on what you have found looking for cars that fit larger people, I would be most grateful if you could post it.

I hear the Volkswagen Beetle is good for large people, but that would not work for him because it sits too low. He is older and his knees don't work so good. For years Dad has done well with a 1993 Ford F-150. But now it is getting hard for him to climb up into it. Ideally we could find something that he could just kind of slide horizontally into without climbing down or up. (My father in law has done well with a Ford Escape that way, but he is not as big as my father.)

Rental agencies buy their cars based on competitive bids and they ask for things to be left out to get the lowest possible price. Cars bought at dealerships usually have more niceties, like better sound insulation, door seals etc, radios, climate controls, etc. I just rented a Ford Excursion for a family trip, and it was way stripped down compared to our neighbor's nice one.