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Originally Posted by Zacharias
In fact, some < GASP > even managed with sedans, and not even full-size ones (honest, I've seen photos).
Now I hear people at work saying "Oh we HAVE to get a minivan now... we're having a second child."
Wow, really? How much personal space do your small children need? Is opening a hatch to stow groceries a more personally fulfilling thing than putting them in trunk?
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Actually, my family got along just fine with nothing but the Corolla in the signature until 2009 (before the Corolla, our biggest car was a '96 Camry)... and then we only got the minivan for the good ride! (My mother quite literally has more joint/health problems than I can count on both hands.)
I remember staying behind at IKEA, watching the Corolla pull away with my father and so much stuff that the rear bumper was about a foot off the pavement!
Oooh, and here's something else radical: we owned nothing but 5-speeds from 1990 to 2009! The horror!
And yes, my father cooks on a Weber charcoal grill
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