Are four-seater sports cars as beautiful as their less practical cousins?
People seem to target the 4 seater sports automobile when they’re being forced to upgrade their roadsters because kids have come along and ruined all your automotive fun. They’re what you look at intensely before the wife tells you you’re ‘an idiot’ and makes you purchase a people carrier or, if you’re lucky, a boxy SUV.
But are 4 seater sports automobiles as beautiful as we make them out to be? Sure, compared to a Toyota Previa they are totally gorgeous, but we should probably indulge in a slightly fairer comparison. Take the 911 and its bloated, slightly ignored cousin the Panamera. The interior is a delight; all calibre plastics and fine trim, but all people see watching you drive it is you doing 150mph in a fat hamster. The Maserati Quattroporte got away with it for some reason, but there was still something that wasn’t quite right about it.
Of course, I’m rattling on about four-DOOR sports cars/coupes here, but the problem with two-door, four-seater sports automobiles is that the back seats might as well not be there, unless you’re fond of taking cats out for a drive with the missus.
One automobile on the market at the moment, which seems to be solving this seemingly, never ending issue, is Volvo of all people.
The new C30 is a 4 seater sports automobile you can actually fit people in the back of. Sounds like something that shouldn’t be news, but I think it’s something that should be celebrated to the hilt.
It’s not terrible either, with a 2.0-litre 150bhp power unit that’s punchy enough for weekends away and trips round town – and it won’t cost the Earth, either.
And you can fit humans in the back.
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