The end of cool small cars

Re:The end of cool small cars by dybber on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:28AM (#37319849)

Often these big cars even have a quite small trunk, e.g. compared to a station wagon.

Soon though, a few car makers will release electric station wagons (e.g. Peugeot e-308). Many danes already drives station wagons, so I hope people will start buying those kind of cars instead of SUV's.

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Re:The end of cool small cars by adhesive_wombat on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:03AM (#37320187)

Apparently, according to a guy trying to put in a higher offer on a car already sold, used estate cars in the UK are now selling at a premium because people who actually want such a car for its practical benefits, including farmers (a battered Volvo V70 and then XC70, which isn't a crossover like the XC60[1], is a common sight on a farm) struggle to find them because the market is full of shiny "wank tanks" with the boot space of a chunky hatchback coming off leases.

[1] and now the ridiculous XC40, for which they discontinued the "actually a car" V40, three years after also discontinuing the XC/V70 entirely.

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Re:The end of cool small cars by reverius42 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:30AM (#37332838)

There’s also the C40; perhaps less ridiculous?

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Re:The end of cool small cars by bzzzt on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:59AM (#37334753)

XC70 boot has 575 liter capacity, C40 419 liter. Even the new V90 has a smaller boot than an old XC70 (and a smaller hatch which is less convenient).

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