When the boomers were small, you could stuff three or four people on the front seat of a car, four or five in the back seat, and if it was a station wagon some

When the boomers were small, you could stuff three or four people on the front seat of a car, four or five in the back seat, and if it was a station wagon some in the back. Nobody said, "How many seat belts?", because seat belts weren't standard until about 1965. If I found and packed a car the way they were loaded in the 1960s, people would call Child Protection Services. So a low-slung sedan or station wagon had a lot more capacity then than now. I dislike sports utes--which during the rush hours are mostly occupied by a driver and nobody else--but I do understand why some buy them.