01-10-2023, 09:29 PM
(01-10-2023, 02:26 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(01-09-2023, 06:16 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Really? My personal observations (nb anecdotal evidence only!) suggest that people (with money to buy new/newish cars) will buy the kind of vehicles they like. Some people like SUVs/crossovers, some like compact hatchbacks, some bigger sedans, others pickup trucks and yet others minivans. Of course some people will want to have more expensive cars to show off, but I don't think that's necessarily correlated with size. (Full disclosure: we own a hatchback.)
Or am I missing something?
I think this was in reference to carrying children. There's social pressure...also technical pressure...I cannot physically fit the stupidly giant car seat in a subcompact car. Owning a larger vehicle is certainly expected.
Back in the day there were three of us kids in the back seat of a VW Rabbit when we went on vacation ...
More seriously, apparently there are narrower car seat available. I even stumbled onto web sites that tested getting three of them in a car's back seat.