CX-5 come to mind because they have SUV cargo space within a compact-car footprint.
Indeed, demand for cargo space is so strong that container lines can barely keep up.
Wagons still have plenty of cargo space and flexibility, and wagon style has never been sleeker or better.
The car is said to match the A5 in terms of cargo space, which is certainly nothing to sneeze about.
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Cargo space, which is usually a hallmark of hatchback models, is scarce, however, with just 10.6 cubic feet of it behind the rear seats.
Rear cargo space has been increased to 24 cubic feet with the 2nd row seat upright by relocating the onboard charger to the front of the vehicle.
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Without an internal combustion engine or transmission tunnel, the interior of Model S has more cargo space than any other sedan in its class and includes a second trunk under the hood.
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How can this big, amply furnished front-engine berlinetta, with nearly 18 cubes of cargo space in the back (with bench seat folded), outpace a carbonized wraith of a car like the Enzo?
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On Wednesday, the German automaker will formally unveil a new 3 Series Gran Turismo, which has a bigger distance between the front and rear wheels to create more rear-seat legroom and cargo space in the trunk.
According to Lockheed officials, VentureStar will be able to take cargo into space at a tenth of the current cost, and could be ready to fly every two or three days.
With another successful launch under its belt, and assuming a successful dock on Wednesday, the success of SpaceX means that NASA is no longer solely reliant on the Russian space program to send supplies and cargo to the International Space Station.
The successful splashdown Thursday of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the world's first commercial space cargo ship, is drawing high praise from spaceflight experts and lawmakers alike.
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Even if NASA cannot be persuaded to trust its astronauts to the private sector, there is a compelling case that it should offer open tenders to deliver cargo to the space station.
An official of an association representing commercial space flight contractors hailed the new strategy of government encouragement for commercial companies to develop systems for transporting astronauts and cargo to the space station.
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The Progress M-12M that went down last week was to deliver more than 3.8 tons of cargo to the space station crew, including food supplies, medical equipment, personal hygiene items and scientific equipment needed for experiments, according to Roscosmos and space officials.
So the space shuttle became essentially a cargo vehicle, instead of a space bus.
The news comes after NASA announced that Space X was fully certified to shuttle (as it were) cargo up to the permanent space station.
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We also reached a critically important milestone in May when SpaceX became the first private company to send a spacecraft -- the Dragon cargo capsule -- to the International Space Station and return it with cargo intact.
We're the only craft capable of bringing significant cargo back from the space station.
This marks the first successful cargo mission to the space station by a private company.
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In 2008, NASA awarded contracts to deliver cargo to the International Space Station to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corporation.
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These will be able to fly cargo to the International Space Station and, if all goes well in the future, people.
The company is developing a heavy-lift rocket with twice the cargo capability of the space shuttle, and also dreams of building a spacecraft that could carry a crew to Mars.
Plus, it would rather like the private sector to offer a cheaper way of delivering cargo to the International Space Station than the deal it gets from its current overfed contractors.
SpaceX , founded by Elon Musk, an entrepreneur, hopes its Dragon capsule will start ferrying astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station next year for NASA when the agency's shuttle programme comes to an end.
"What's really important is not control, as much as it is the fact that the United States will once again be in the lead, will be providing our own vehicles to take our own astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station, " Bolden said.
Webster, 47, learned about the risks of betting on overcomplex space technology more than a decade ago, when he and two Harvard Business School classmates dreamed up the idea of launching commercial satellites with a rocket carried in the cargo bay of the space shuttle.
It will mean China is fully capable of transferring human and cargo to an orbiter in space.
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But accommodating pets requires a lot more than simply carving out space in the cargo hold for furry travelers.
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