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Originally Posted by FFR
When you have a large family you do. I have 3 brothers. So there were four of us growing up. No way would we ever go anywhere in a family sedan. Can you imagine sitting 3 across - front and back - to go everywhere? It wouldn't work. You would'nt be able to take vacations as you wouldn't have enough room for luggage.
As soon as there were four kids, we bought a Safari van (eight seater - used to be a cargo van). There was no way you could make a family sedan work with a 6 person family. Especially when we all became teenagers.
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How do you think families back in the 50s and 60s got around? This was a time when SUVs and minivans didn't exist and families were much larger (it was quite common for parents to have five or more children). My dad grew up in a family of six kids (four boys, two girls), they only owned one vehicle, and it certainly wasn't an SUV or van. Granted, cars were bigger in those days, but they didn't have three rows of seating like vans and many SUVs do today.