>>12855
>the same thing applies to small hatchbacks
Except it isn't exactly enough room for gear, unless you're just roughing it, or going alone, which again brings me to how lonely hatchbacks are meant to he designed.
>I wrote nothing to imply anything of the sort. It is true, though, that most early European small cars had only two doors, and that remains to this day
Which brings us exactly to the point about western society becoming one of loners, from the four-door folk's wagon, to the two-door import.
>they were not
Read: cultivated. Not created from. As the age of hatchbacks came into being, so did the race cars begin to take shape with the era.
>the whole time you've been talking about how cars and society have been getting more degenerate
Conservative, as in purposely low, for the sake of caution. When salaries don't pay up for the pump, you've got to start thinking about a smaller car, and a smaller family.
>if you are 25 with a wife and three kids, go camping on the weekends and do road trips every summer, it makes perfect sense to drive a station wagon
Exactly. You should be driving your loner from the start of your time on the road to the beginning of your family, which is earlier than you think. Inheritance basically ensures that your old car won't go unloved, since eventually one of your offspring will mature to use it, in your place. The hatchback of course being of no relation to the station wagon, at this point, which is what I had addressed, to begin with.
>you know how the original Beetle was the official do-it-all car of Nazi Germany
>you know how it only had two doors
>you know how a family put their three kids in the back and went on trips
Germany was a different kind of country, back then. Its heavily-ingrained and compact culture makes for entirely different needs, when concerning transportation. A world comprised of small towns, and industrial parks, with litPost too long. Click here to view the full text.