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take the Xmas tree to the dump once a year
It's an interesting point. Do you spec your car for the typical use case or the outlier / occasional use?
We don't use our car on a daily basis but use it for trips out of town several times a month.
For my typical use something like a Golf would be ideal, but a few times a year we take the family to Scotland or somewhere which is 2 teenagers over 6' tall plus two adults plus a load of holiday related crap at which point a Golf wouldn't suit, which is why we have a Superb estate.
Which most of the the time, we don't really need.
This reminds me of my godmother's husband who hung on to the family estate for years so he could take the Xmas tree to the dump once a year.