Maybe so, and the S-Max is competent too. But I suspect either would be outperformed by the standard car on which it's based.
In any case, it's not all about twisty bits; long journeys consist largely of fast, straight roads, and a car with a tall body, and necessarily stiffer springs to control it all, will always be harder work than the same basic mechanicals in a normal-height shell.
Our LEC is no sports car - at times it feels positively stodgy and it especially dislikes double-mini roundabouts - but it's a great car to drive all day. The tall-bodied Verso it replaced was light and easy, even agile, for 20 minutes, then got rapidly more fatiguing. Certainly wouldn't have fancied our two successive 400-mile days back from the Pyrenees in that - especially since it would have required a roofbox that would have made its aerodynamics even worse. (The LEC just swallowed the lot, as a true family car should.)
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