Have people changed their attitude to cars?

[Schroeder]

Still I don't get why a car that obviously isn't smaller than a Mitsubishi Lancer should not be enough for 4 people. We have had one for some years and we were 4 at that time. Absolutely no problem.
When my sister and I were small kids who needed child restraint seats and stuff my parents only owned a VW Golf I. It's rather small compared to modern Golfs and yet there was no space problem.
It's all a matter of what you consider appropriate. If every person in the car must have 6 feet space for his legs than you will have to buy a SUV, if you can sit for hours in a car that gives you just slightly more space than the economy class in a Jumbo then you can take pretty much every car and it will be big enough.

I wonder what my parents did when there were no SUVs around and they had to settle with a tiny VW Beatle over here... I wonder how they survived that.