Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

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NurseHolliday in reply to @Nef

I can't believe I'm defending a BMW MPV but I think that's an easy thing to say if you don't fit this profile.

You live in suburbia or the countryside, your kids play sports so you're often sharing pick up and drop off with other parents so you need more space to put all their dirty kit and you need 6 or 7 seats in total. You don't want a 7 seater SUV or estate because the 2 extra seats take up the load space and you need both.

Which makes up a bigger % of the UK population than you might think.

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efb in reply to @NurseHolliday

People choose bigger cars because of a need to ferry others children about?

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NurseHolliday in reply to @efb

Seemed crazy to me too, but that was my life for years. I went to school a good 20-25 minute drive away from home, so we car shared with 2 other parents so all 3 parents weren't having to make basically the same journey every day, and gave each parent a rest some days.

Loads of kids do activities every weekend that mean they have to be driven somewhere and sure, you could probably argue that every parent should attend everything their kid does, but if it's every fucking Saturday for 10 years, having a bigger car so you can share picking them up and dropping them off with other parents sounds like a good deal to me.

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