I've got a HSE leather interior with pull down armrest on the rear seats, but there's no central hatch to take long objects.
Seems really odd that this feature isn't incorporated into my seats.
Would be really handy for me as I carry canoe & kayak paddles in the rear and have to put them over the seat tops.
So does any FL2 model have a rear hatch? FL2 now gone and have a couple of items left for sale:-

Brodit active iPhone holder + Brodit dash clip,
Bluetooth Music Streaming Module.

LR provide expensive accessories for those items on the roof, passengers are to travel in comfort in the manner one should be accustomed to, you don't really want he middle passenger in the rear seat to have a set of skis stuck up his fundamental orifice do you? LR think of everything  my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
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I suspect the intention is you drop the single seat as this lines up with the 'flap' in the dog/luggage guard, although it would be helpful to have the centre hole option. 2000 Xei 1.8 gone
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I Have a HSE and mine does not have one either.
I was looking for one for exactly the same reasons too!
My wife and i can get our 195 and 197 paddles in by leaving the seats up and putting one end on the outside edge of each front seat base. The other ends of both paddles meet in the middle behind the seats (just below the high level break light area.
Not sure if you are saying that you get teh kayak inside too or not so i guess that could make a difference if you do. FL2 HSE Lux 2011 SD4 Gallway Green.
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