It is normally good practice to buy a car that fits your life, not one that you have to rearrange in your life to make it fit. But sometimes it doesn’t work that way. Sometimes your love for a car is so deep and so profound that you are willing to bother yourself and the occasional family and friends to make the relationship work.
I can’t say that I personally have a good example of this in my fairly short history of car ownership, although I will say that the Fiesta ST I’m currently driving is definitely the best answer I’ve gotten to this question. Yes, it’s a four-door hatchback, which seems pretty practical at first. At this point, however, I’ve done enough backbone cross-country trips and wholesale rides to know that a car is a bit to small and hard can be very annoying at those key moments when you need them anything but. In any case, it tends to take me out of the driver’s duties because no one wants to get stuck in the backseat.
The answer I. want to answer this question, however, is none other than the GR Yaris. I’d like nothing more than to have an even smaller, less practical hatchback ruin my life for the simple reason that it’s special rally homologation. I would take any bullshit if only Toyota would give me the chance.
So, what absolutely impractical, inhospitable car have you tried to live with, and how did you make that flawed relationship work?