My mother asked why SUV’s and trucks are so popular. In a word, space. Cars that meet the EPA restrictions are too small to ride comfortably in day after day. It wouldn’t be so bad if they’d bring back bench seats and skip the sexy center console. But every new car interior resembles a fighter’s cockpit. Give me a bench seat and some foot room please.
The reason teh Bench Seat is mostly history is because if they have one, therefore someone could sit in it and that necessitates the addition of another air bag system and all its controls....................
I agree....bench seats work. That stupid console is just a junk collector.
“But every new car interior resembles a fighter’s cockpit. Give me a bench seat and some foot room please.”
I love watching the old movies when people slid across the front seat to exit at curbside.
My old ‘70 Impala could seat 4 across front and back and stack about 5 bodies in the trunk. LOL