Andy Beats wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 2:44 pm
Quite a few people here worrying about people getting in/out the back of a three door car.
Why?
Did I give a stuff about rear passengers when I had my Mini?
No, because it's
my car and if passengers aren't happy, they're free to catch the bus.
I'm not running a taxi, so I'm not having passengers dictate what car I drive.
I'd think that it depends on the circle of friends/relations that surround you, when I used to car share at work, when someone moved and so left the car pool, I and the others currently in a pool would tend to give first option to someone with a 4 door car, so quite a few willing car sharers with 3 door cars never made it into car pools.
Likewise for relatives both younger and older, "taking your turn" when moving around and having someone head butt the pavement when leaving the back of a 3 door should make you feel more than partly to blame for that incident.
I see you say" I'm not running a taxi etc" but you'd probably be very happy to share their 4 door cars.
To take this to extremes, my daughter's boy friend runs a couple of Lotuses, an old Esprit and an FWD Elan - and no one cares to share these cars with him on a long journey including my daughter!
To add one other thing, do I like being in the back of a 3 door car when I'm used to being able to hopefully open a car after an incident - no, survival instincts make me think that I might not be as lucky as I could be - but that is just my personal view, I have only sat in the rear of my daughter's 3 door Ibiza once along with 2 other adults, and I was very glad to get dropped off to collect our car at a car park - I trust her driving but I can not control/influence all those around me.
Edit:- just to make clear one thing, I was quite happy to drive around with that car and take my wife with me in it, but if we had friends round or visiting friends, I'd make sure that I could step up and share any driving around when there was 4 of us to move around, its called being reasonable.