Are 2 doors declining?

Are 2 doors declining?

I feel everything is becoming a lifted wagon yet 99% of cars I see on the road only have one occupant.

What is the purpose of this? It just seems inefficient or even hypocritical.

Insurance companies (at least in America) make it more expensive to own coupes... much less cars with less than 2 rows of seats. Also, it's a fucking bitch to get people in the back seats of coupes, especially when most modern coupes/luxury cars have 10 and 16 point electric seating.

People are going to justify 4-door cars because it's simply more practical for hauling people, even if they rarely have that occasion occur.

Also insurance rates for coupes are usually higher because insurance companies associate them with boy racers and retards.

But what about all the Honda coupes? Isn't their target demographic cheaper?

yeah it sucks

everyone has this weird vision of driving over hills and grass and mud and lawns and shit but really they just want to feel safe in a crash

they should just buy an old mercedes, that would be so much better than a big kia with awful power and mpg

but really, if we had more 2 door wagons and other cars that were actually useful for the common man, there would be more love for autos than anything a crossover could muster

Because the target audience of 3 door hatches is women in yurop and you know what they buy now. There is no dramatic decline in coupe sales iirc.

I don't get it either.

I can understand the thought that the extra doors can be convenient for carrying passengers, but the thing is that most new compact economy cars (at least in the US) only come with four doors now, and they're only slightly larger than their two-door predecessors.

In other words, though the doors do make it slightly easier to get in and out of the back, the back seats are still too small to seat adults comfortably. In the economy segment, the cars also generally aren't powerful enough that you'd want to be driving around frequently with the car loaded down by 3+ adults.

If you've got smallish children, I can understand, but that's a relatively small segment (since it's just a few year window between car seats and near-adult size), and kids rarely have trouble climbing into the back of a two-door car anyway.

While it's not surprising that people without critical thinking skills will assume that a 4-door Corolla will afford them the same degree of utility as a Camry, I would not have thought that this kind of stupidity would comprise such an overwhelming majority of American car buyers that most of the manufacturers would stop offering two-door compact models altogether.

As usual, women are probably to blame.

there's a big difference between shitty two doors, and performance coupes

what we want are coupes with solid motors and some firm suspension

what we get are a4's with less rear legroom

>what we want are coupes with solid motors and some firm suspension

nah you want a coupe you can benchrace with for unrealistic prices

When I was a kid, our family of five had one car - a 91 Honda 3-door hatch. I still use it as my daily driver and there's nothing wrong with it.