Good job I’m talking about a 5-door hatchback then isn’t it

This is not limited to old GM and Chrysler products.

First car: 2002 VW Polo. Cost me £2,700. Passed on to my little brother, who eventually killed it a few years later.

The ‘Oxford’ name may be something to do with the cars being built in Oxford? The Cowley plant is in a suburb of Oxford. 

I’d also point out that even underpowered cars can often cruise quite happily at 70+ mph all day. My first car was a VW Polo with 65PS, 0-60 was about 14 seconds. It was quite happy on the motorway, it just took a while to get up to speed. Once there, it would sit at 80 without any issues. 

It’s less the cost and being a lower cost vehicle, but more the fact that it’s a better engineering solution in this use case.

Skoda generally are. My last car was a Skoda Fabia, it was great.

The ‘service position’. Once you turn off the ignition, knock the switch in the ‘mist’ position, and they go partway up.

Plus, it’s normally on the door, so easy to see and adjust. 

I feel like automatically opening doors could cause issues in tight spaces- presume there’s a sensor of some kind to stop it dinging the next car over?

Auto windows are great. Even better is where you can open or close them all from the key fob. Hold the unlock, they all open, hold the lock, they all close. Often works with sunroofs too. Don’t know if Volvo do this but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. VW have done it for years.

Skoda are ace for stuff like this.

It’s got a centre console storage unit, but no tunnel in the back getting in the way of people’s feet in the back row.

Basically most of the rear wheel braking comes from the regen, and they’ve found that the pads and discs would fail fairly early as they’d barely get used. Drums are much happier in that use case than discs are.

The steering wheel controls are a weird capacitive type too, very similar to the VW ID cars, which has had variable reviews. 

The electric Tiguan is the ID.4. The next Macan is indeed supposed to be electric, but I’m not sure it’ll be on the same MEB platform, or the fancier platform under the Taycan and Audi e-Tron GT.

This one isn’t the biggest of Malamutes, but he’s still not a small dog! Sweetest character though, really lovely gentle dog*. He probably weighs about 120lb? Not really sure haha

Volvo’s is great too, as is Seat’s. Although I’m biased, as I drive a red Seat.

To me, a liftback is a subsection of hatchbacks where there is a good chunk of bodywork extending behind the glass, often horizontally. A good example would be the Skoda Octavia, which has an area of horizontal sheet metal aft of the glass.

This doesn’t surprise me. With the exception of primarily style led designs, like the Mini or the Fiat 500, back doors just make more sense to most people. I don’t often have people in the back seat of my car, but I wouldn’t consider a 2-door. I often chuck stuff on the back seat, which is easier if you have back…