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Originally Posted by niky
The MINI, again, is the closest, but it sells more on coolness than practicality.
The Cooper is tiny. The back seat is pathetic and cargo space is small compared to many old school subcompacts and non-existent compared to the compacts it's priced against.
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Then comes the question : how often are those back seats actually used ?
Flip them down, and cargo space is a fair bit bigger.
When transporting kids, they usually love the Mini despite the back seats ...
For a lot of people, something the size of the Mini or a Fiesta is big enough for the largest part of their everyday use.
For the few % of time / miles that it isn't big enough : put a hitch on it, and get a trailer. Far more efficient than driving a vehicle that's sized for what is an a-typical use.
We seem to have forgotten that this is the size of car that many of our (grand)parents used for well, just about everything.
Not everyone drove a battleship back in the days ...