My parents had a beige Rabbit when I was growing up. It made me realize how ridiculous it was for people to want these giant SUVs for their one child. My parents drove two kids around in that tiny car with room for a chile sized cello and a violin.
Eventually we moved up to a Jetta which fit 4 teens, 3 violins and a cello plus music stands for my sister’s musical quartet.
My buddy had a late 80s VW Fox which was pretty cool. He broke it doing a power slide around a corner and bent the front axle when the front left tire hit the median. There was no parts for it in the early 2000s
He killed a lot of cars in great way.
He had an 80s Mercedes Benz that he took for a rip around a gravel pit that people would play around with their 4x4s. He drove in literally into the ground. Cracked the oil pan then drove it out of the pit onto the street then called a tow truck.
The tow truck driver spent 30 mins with his dispatch notating all the damage before he would pick it up, my buddy wanted it dumped at the junkyard anyways.
Yeah my parents had a last-gen Chevy Nova (The tiny one that was actually a Corolla) when I was a kid, they made it work just fine. I have a mk5 Rabbit today probably at least in small part because my mom had a mk1 in college. Though to be fair the mk5 is nearly twice as big as the mk1, and it’s right around the time that everything was starting to get chiclet-shaped so it doesn’t have the nice hard lines of mk4 and below.
A Kona. A bit bigger than the ioniq 5 but we got it in 2020 and the ioniq wasn’t out yet. A dealer wanted us to trade in the Kona a few years later for the ioniq but we had already paid off the Kona so we had no incentive to trade a paid off 3 year old new car for a car payment.
The inside cabin felt way bigger in the ioniq because it was built from the ground up as an EV, while the Kona had the same layout as the gas model.
Without need to have space for the transmission there no need for that channel along the floor so the center console can be shaped differently and more floor space.
Interesting I always felt it was smaller by just a few inches but I guess it was really the other way around.
I like how our Kona looks more than how the newer konas are but the ioniq looks like it belongs in the nice areas of Night City in cyberpunk 2077.
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My parents had a beige Rabbit when I was growing up. It made me realize how ridiculous it was for people to want these giant SUVs for their one child. My parents drove two kids around in that tiny car with room for a chile sized cello and a violin.
Eventually we moved up to a Jetta which fit 4 teens, 3 violins and a cello plus music stands for my sister’s musical quartet.
To be fair, the Rabbit/Golf is perhaps the perfect car
My buddy had a late 80s VW Fox which was pretty cool. He broke it doing a power slide around a corner and bent the front axle when the front left tire hit the median. There was no parts for it in the early 2000s
That’s a good death for that car. I remember taking my mk1 Jetta coupe sideways a lot in empty parking lots.
He killed a lot of cars in great way. He had an 80s Mercedes Benz that he took for a rip around a gravel pit that people would play around with their 4x4s. He drove in literally into the ground. Cracked the oil pan then drove it out of the pit onto the street then called a tow truck.
The tow truck driver spent 30 mins with his dispatch notating all the damage before he would pick it up, my buddy wanted it dumped at the junkyard anyways.
Yeah my parents had a last-gen Chevy Nova (The tiny one that was actually a Corolla) when I was a kid, they made it work just fine. I have a mk5 Rabbit today probably at least in small part because my mom had a mk1 in college. Though to be fair the mk5 is nearly twice as big as the mk1, and it’s right around the time that everything was starting to get chiclet-shaped so it doesn’t have the nice hard lines of mk4 and below.
I do love vintage hatchbacks. Favorite car type.
I had a Honda Fit for a decade. I did replace it with an electric car that is kinda a hatchback but really it is a crossover.
Sometimes I miss the go cart like handling but never paying for gas is an acceptable compromise.
Ioniq 5 / EV6?
A Kona. A bit bigger than the ioniq 5 but we got it in 2020 and the ioniq wasn’t out yet. A dealer wanted us to trade in the Kona a few years later for the ioniq but we had already paid off the Kona so we had no incentive to trade a paid off 3 year old new car for a car payment.
Oh interesting I always though the Ioniq 5 was bigger. And yes good choice keeping the paid off car, EV depreciation is no joke these days.
The inside cabin felt way bigger in the ioniq because it was built from the ground up as an EV, while the Kona had the same layout as the gas model.
Without need to have space for the transmission there no need for that channel along the floor so the center console can be shaped differently and more floor space.
Not 100% sure I have the exact right cars, but it would seem the Ioniq 5 is actually bigger. More incentive to keep the Kona!
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/hyundai-kona-2017-suv-electric-vs-hyundai-ioniq-5-2021-suv/
Interesting I always felt it was smaller by just a few inches but I guess it was really the other way around. I like how our Kona looks more than how the newer konas are but the ioniq looks like it belongs in the nice areas of Night City in cyberpunk 2077.