Jog on

Oh that's what kid is short for. Yes, maybe.

Or, just remind her of who is the boss eh?

😂

We like to consider the needs and conforts of our ladies, don't we? Am I supposed to go all Vladimir Putin, do as you're told woman, on her? I'll not be mkaing any exuces for not displaying toxic masculinity.

I've a preference for auto these days too. Not a need, a preference. That's OK, isn't it?

Anyway. I dunno. About any of it. Still. I just come here to think out loud really. Maybe it'll help one day.

Sometimes, if in doubt do nothing is one of my mantras. Don’t force a situation or a decision. Especially after 4pm when it’s nearly beer o’clock 😄. Carry on musing though Al!

Here’s Rory Reid’s take. Seats definitely removable. Fuel economy suspect again though as mentioned in the other review.

I do wonder if the demise of estate cars is just a temporary vagary of fashion. Many here have, or have had them and found them entirely useful. Easy to live with sort of things. I can see me wanting something of the type for the foreseeable.


I could have, almost, been convinced. The lack of an auto option would be a bit of a put off, if not an actual deal breaker, but the apparently poor fuel consumption would be unacceptable to me.

Maybe the hybrid they say is coming will address those points.

Both reviewers seem quietly impressed otherwise.

Probably permanent, at least in the way we here understand estate cars. It’s a useful way of packaging people and stuff behind a fossil engine, but it would feel like a wasted opportunity if we just went on doing that once we no longer need the fossil engine. Just as a Benz of the 1890s looked like carriage with the horse removed but the design soon evolved to suit the improved technology, so we will leave the ICE design language behind.

Similar points arise in other areas. The iPace has a sound generator to play vroom-vroom noises into the cabin in case you’re infantile enough to need them or too senile to look out of the window at the rapidly passing scenery. Where incidentals of old technology serve a purpose — as with the shutter sound effect that tells you your smartphone has silently taken a picture — some old design motifs will persist. But I think we’ll soon see EVs that offer all the benefits of our estate cars without slavishly imitating their appearance.