In terms of cargo volume, the port is the largest container port on the East Coast.
The second seat can too be removed, he said, and that is how Toyota figured the cargo volume.
"We don't consider the slide in cargo volume as alarmingly large," Mr. Onishi said on the sidelines of the meeting.
However, the 21.4 cubic feet of cargo volume is up from 17.8 cubic feet on the older model.
Ford shot back, saying the issue is "customer-friendly cargo volume," not space created through manual labor and the use of tools.
The stylish roof line does, however, reduce the useful cargo volume when compared with the squared-off roofline of competitors like the Audi A4 or Volvo V70.
With an expected increase in cargo volume, the new tracks will increase that proportion to 25percentt of port traffic, Mr. McGreevey said.
It has a maximum cargo volume of about 90 cubic feet behind the front seats, compared with 81.5 for the MDX.
Among all-wheel-drive station wagons, the Passat's cargo volume is greater than all but the Mercedes E320 wagon, even beating the new Volvo V70.
The Environmental Protection Agency rates the current Accord, based on its interior and cargo volume, as a full-size car, and it feels fairly huge inside.
For the months of November through March, international and domestic cargo volume grew almost 20 percent from the same month a year earlier.
