I'm entirely pleased by this. At most, I have one passenger. And, in the future, with self driving cars, we will both be in back much of the time, not the front. I don't want to be sardined into a tight little space like I'm trying to infiltrate another country clandestinely. Cars are supposed to be comfortable. Two seats is simply perfect. The idea of 2x2 is just luscious. 7?! Ok, if you're asking for 7, you might as well ask for everything else too, including a camper, a truck, and all sorts of other things. And I'm not against that. Many, many families exist with dad, mom, and 3 children, and that's great; that's a particularly important phase of life, for about 15 years per lifetime (so around 20% of life). But there's definitely a place for a 4 seat vehicle with ample room, not squeezed into place. I already feel laterally, vertically and longitudinally squeezed into the Model S I bought when I'm in the driver's seat, and the rear seats are even worse, and I can hardly wait until I have a car where all seats are comfortable (and it doesn't pollute with fossil fuels). The sooner high end luxury electric vehicles get on the market with decent room, the sooner it comes into my affordability range (through one means or another). I am far from the only one who would appreciate only two seats in back.
The whole idea of a third seat in the back row of a short vehicle has always offended me. I understand when farming was manual labor and a certain % of the children died some way or other before becoming adults that we needed to have families of ten children each, but cars are long since past that era of our civilization; if anything, we should all have 3-4 children, and have 6 seater stretch vehicles with 3 rows with ample room in each row, only two seats per, no squeezing in any direction for anyone. And if you claim we're trying to breed smaller humans to fit in tighter spots, we're already designing computer programs to be sentient, so those can fit in all sorts of oddly different space sizes and locations, so I don't accept the idea that homo sapiens and related species have to fit that attitude of encouraged shrinkage.
