Hi mate, I'm 6'2" and have done around 23k miles and never had any problems. I regularly drive from Manchester to London, Coventry, the wales drive, Anglesey, Blackpool, etc etc all decent journeys plus with traffic can be 5 hours easily with London. You really need to have a good play with all of the seats settings and the height of the steering wheel, I tend to have the seat as low as it'll go, as far back as poss, but with the back reasonable sat up. The wheel one click up from the bottom setting, iirc. I'm sure once you get this right you'll feel completely different about the car. On the storage, have you found the big box behind the passenger seat? Plus the other cubbies I find it more than enough