[Publius Valerius]

Get power windows and buy one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Original-Life-Hammer-Escape-Orange/dp/B000BMWXZM/ref=pd_cp_hi_0

[Carry_Okie]

A spring loaded center works too, for a lot less.

Yes, there is one in the door of my wife's (!)%$&%#) Volvo (that car really sucks).

Won't help the fact that I just don't like them.

[Carry_Okie]

Let me tell you a little story. In the summer of 1959, I was almost five. Grandma left us in her Chevy Impala in the parking lot in El Cajon, CA. It gets hot there. She told us that, if it got too hot, we could lower the windows and showed us how.

Those power windows were cool! Up, down, up, down, up, up, down, up, down... we laughed and giggled playing with the nifty windows... until the battery died. Oh, and yes, they are still making four-year-olds.

Just try and find that hammer after a collision with airbag dust and bags all over you. Crank windows are a safety item.