People choose to drive the Volkswagen in Australia. Mainly young working women, they are seen to be very trendy.
My first car was a Kombi wagon, It was surprisingly easy to park in the small city car parks, and I could see over everyone in traffic and know what was ahead.
It was embarrassing when going up steep hills in the countryside ,however and made the people behind annoyed.

@Lisa: Thanks for supporting the teutonic industrial automobil complex.

Not to insult you, but my Grandma was a big Volkswagen fan - she used to take me to a small lake most summers in her roaring Beetle! That was fun …

Not to be insulted, I am grand motherly now but not back then,
but a fun vision of a small orangeguru roaring around the countryside.
My father drove one for short time too,
I can remember asking him once why cars stopped to let us pass by… must have been at stop signs…he told me that it was because people knew that the Volkswagen had its motor in the back and so he would not be afraid to ram them if they got in his way…it took me many years to sort the fact from the fiction of things my father told me…
he did also tell me once, while we were doing the dishes, that the kitchen bench was full of tiny particles called atoms, and that smaller parts of these were spinning around,…
this turned out to be true.

@Lisa: Your father seemed to have wits, humor and wisdom? Good men.

Small orange hated sitting in cars - small orange loved to swim and snorkel. Tood bad I wasn’t born in a country with more happy beaches just for that …