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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
I'm not sure I understand the 2 door vs 4 door analogy. I mean, I understand your intent, but I have had lots of 2 door cars raising a family of 5. Again, it all depends on your "mission". If you mean a two door econobox, or even an 86, sure I get that. But a Chevette with 4 doors, or a FR-S with 4 doors is really no more practical than if it had 2. I can think of lots of two door cars though that are perfectly fine family cars (and a ton of trucks for that matter).
Back in the day, there were lots of families that bought the car they could afford, regardless of its convenience. In fact, my family once took a 500 mile trip in a 60's VW Bug with two adult women, a 14 year old, a 12 year old, a 9 year old, an infant and a German Shepard. Of course we didn't have to worry about silly safety rules then!
Well, that I understand...
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All of my other cars had some practical requirement thus the 4 doors (and most of them were hatches/wagons). I chose the FR-S over the IS350 because I wanted cheap, cheerful, obnoxious fun. For as many times as I've crammed my kid in the back of the FR-S (because I
wanted to play with my toy rather than the Rav), a 4 door would be a lot easier to live with... especially since the passenger seat doesn't lock in the forward position when I'm trying to buckle her in. :mad: Basically, I deliberately selected a vehicle that isn't ideal from a practical standpoint when I could have easily bought a WRX or GTI instead. I've had Imprezas and a 4 door GTI before and I wanted RWD and light weight since we already had the family mobile covered. That makes it a toy to me.
My grandparents had a beetle with 7 kids. It was because that was all they could afford. Funny enough, if I had an old beetle now, I would consider it a toy due to the terrible safety and basically being a terrible car to drive on a daily basis. Things change with time and toy can have many definitions.
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