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Originally Posted by redpoint5
You're not pro-popular vote, are you? :P
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I can't say. It would seem to me that just because something is popular doesn't make it right or fair.
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I prefer the aesthetics of a sedan, but utility is king, because utilization is more important than vanity.
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For me a trunk lid has more utility. It gets me slightly better fuel mileage and gives me a place to put a second amateur radio antenna. I guess I could use the middle of the hood, but that would look kind of silly. Right now I'm set up to send and receive emergency messages from the islands and countries where Huricane Baryl has barreled through. Having a hatch and missing out on that kind of action isn't worth it to me.
And as I've said before, I did know a lady that got killed in a hatchback from stuff coming up out of the cargo area and hitting her in the head. Plus the trunk of the Avalon, which is a sedan, holds a lot of stuff without being a hatch. The hatchbacks I've driven have had covers that make the hatch area small or smaller than a sedan trunk, which I hope will help keep things from coming up out of there into the cabin area.
I can't remember any time with the Golf or with the Leaf that I folded down the seats and took out the cargo cover. So what's the point in having a hatch? I don't see how putting large objects up into a hatchback or a pickup is easier. My trailer is very low, and when I have help loading or unloading it people tell me all the time how much they like my trailer and ask where they can get theirs. I've worked too many years in construction loading and unloading blasted, akward, back-breaking pickup trucks to want to be raising and lowering large heavy objects that high ever again.
I'm not saying I wouldn't have a hatch. I've now ended up with 4 cars, two recently given to me, and three out of the four are hatchbacks. Of all of those I prefer the Gen 2 Prius style hatch. It's a hatch, and works quite like a typical hatch with only a little less room, but is also quite aerodynamic for a hatch. But I'd wager a bet that I'll never actually put something in any of them that needed to be put in a hatch.