Just to clarify on legroom as many have mentioned it. The pics i posted are with me sitting far back, im about 5' 10.5" tall with long legs so i sit pretty far back. You would have issues putting a large rear facing car seat behind my seating position. You can fit one easily behind Passenger side with Passenger giving some space up. So if your like 5'6" or less this car will seem plenty big.
If you need to just go to lunch with 4 adults everyone will be perfectly fine for that type of trip. Try to pack 5 in? Don't, the tunnel in middle is big and its not a wide car. Could you take family of 4 on a trip in this? Sure, if your grown ups aren't tall. Its similar to back seats of other compacts but is nothing like the midsize segment. Worse than a large sedan but way better than a coupe.
Took it on my first normal trip to work today and i must say it really impressed. Soaking up all the horrible road areas and normal bumps very well and the DSG was shifting like a ninja, super fast and unnoticed. Seemed to read 20 MPG on the day, and that seems great for the stop and go daily route.