If people would just try they would see how easy it is. 

You could also ‘install’ a clothesline and use it occasionally. 

No love for Gbadolite ?

The driver side mirror should be MANUAL or optional electric adjustment. Is it really so hard to stick your hand out the window and wiggle wiggle ?  Or use the little stick. The interior rear view mirror seems to work fine with manual adjustment. With a screen you have to look at the mirror, the road and the screen. 

Often when I read about biking its abut the busy roads and traffic. Biking involves REALLY creative route finding. And usually a longer route than by car because it will be less direct. Sometimes routes involve a short dirt path, or lot of quiet subdivisions where it dead ends has a small path that connects the two.…

Might make sense in markets like India where people can afford something cheap and small (in a much more basic trim) but the roads are terrible. 

Are those mirrors designed to slice into cyclists and pedestrians ?

I would have said a bone stock Civic hatch, but the morons at honda decided the hatch only comes with the turbo engine. On top of that they killed the Fit. HONDA, you are losing your way.

4th gen hatchback.  Cheap, practical, zingy engine, great handling, excellent fuel eco, reliable, long lasting.

Vancouver already has defacto done this. For at least 10 years the city has put no money into car infrastruture. All efforts have gone into transit, bikes and car share. Its such a pain to drive & park into the city that a lot of people don’t bother and take the alternatives, even though they own a car.

Use a clothesline.   Its a friggin’ string thats going to save you a shit ton of money (and carbon).

22mpg and 281hp. Correlation ? 191hp is not enough ? You know you are allowed to floor it once in a while. And turbo rated mpg’s are always BS.

I drove the Astro many times.   Junk.   And I drove pretty much all the vans and mini vans of that era, so fair comparison.

EV car Youtuber TeslaBjorn reviewed it and thought it was quite good.

Yesterday I was sitting on a bench at a mall having a coffee and a Lincoln Navigator pulls up to load stuff and for the family to get in.  For such a giant vehicle it had very little space in it.  Granted, it can tow and go off road, but vans rule.

My old and passed away kraut relatives always told me the autobahn was never intended or really designed for the mega speeds of modern cars. 200km/h was considered out of this world.

Same old story. Its good if you are going to need or use the ground clearance/awd. Otherwise just get the corolla hatch or the civic. Maybe the hyundai venue for the space and price.

Well I guess someone can start the awd debate but this is another nail in the coffin for small(er) cheap basic cars.  Since when was hybrid basic ?  Anyway.

Borderline perfect english yet he had lived in Boston ?

1979 Ford Econoline had the same ignition key placement as the Porsche. No steering wheel lock either. Oddly enough my dad had previously owned a 356 so he had 2 cars with the lefty dash ignition.