Congrats on the upcoming family member
Hi Gene,
I'm 6'1" and have 3 young kids - 6 yrs, 4 yrs, and 2 yrs old. I have two forward facing seats in the back right now. I'm out of rear-facing seats these days, but I can tell you two things:
1) I have fit rear-facing car seats in cars much smaller than this! Maybe you have, too. I have always put the youngest behind the passenger seat so I could reach out and hand things to them, or look over my shoulder and see them. Rear facing seats have fit fine in our 2001 VW Jetta and in our 2004 Subaru Outback, both of which had less room in the rear than this. A passenger in front may not be able to put their seat all the way back with a rear-facing seat behind them - can't say b/c I haven't tried.
2) At 6'1", I like to adjust the driver seat for myself and then test sitting in back "behind myself", as it were, when I check out cars for test drives. A 6 foot passenger can sit behind a 6 foot driver comfortably in the Crosstour. There's absolutely no problem with my 6 year old sitting in a booster behind me driving.
Guess you can tell where FamilyGuy comes from...
Glenn