The intersection between comfort, drivability, and functionality in a family-size vehicle always looks really dumb. See: station wagons, minivans et al.
I think an EV version of an old-school station wagon would be extremely popular. Here’s a 1970s Toyota Corona station wagon.
The last vestige of my mom’s youth that she refused to let go for a surprisingly long time was her Fiat Spider convertible. She really loved that car. A small convertible is very much not a mom car so eventually she sold it and replaced it with that . But she always was a real convertible guy. Decades later she bought herself another convertible.
I wasn’t a car guy as a boy. But I knew the Spider was cool and the station wagon wasn’t. But later on I developed a fondness for old-school wagons. I’m still not a car guy but they have wagony charm.
as much as I hate cars the 70s - early 2000s station wagon is like the perfect private car. Like if we’re gonna have cars to this amount ideally you’d have one that you drive as little as possible and only when needed, i.e. hauling some shit or 3+ people or similar and the ye olde station wagon does all of that brilliantly
The intersection between comfort, drivability, and functionality in a family-size vehicle always looks really dumb. See: station wagons, minivans et al.
station wagons are cool
I think an EV version of an old-school station wagon would be extremely popular. Here’s a 1970s Toyota Corona station wagon.
The last vestige of my mom’s youth that she refused to let go for a surprisingly long time was her Fiat Spider convertible. She really loved that car. A small convertible is very much not a mom car so eventually she sold it and replaced it with that . But she always was a real convertible guy. Decades later she bought herself another convertible.
I wasn’t a car guy as a boy. But I knew the Spider was cool and the station wagon wasn’t. But later on I developed a fondness for old-school wagons. I’m still not a car guy but they have wagony charm.
not aero enough
as much as I hate cars the 70s - early 2000s station wagon is like the perfect private car. Like if we’re gonna have cars to this amount ideally you’d have one that you drive as little as possible and only when needed, i.e. hauling some shit or 3+ people or similar and the ye olde station wagon does all of that brilliantly
yeah the modern SUV is a pale imitation
Especially the dumb cool performance ones like the Subaru Levorg