Give me four!
09/27/2025
I'm always amazed at how much more people are willing to pay, only to end up with less. This is particularly noticeable with the 1955 to 1957 Chevrolets, where two-door models sometimes go for twice as much as the four-door bodies. I never quite understood this. It doesn't make the big sedan a sportscar – just more impractical.
Or would anyone here claim that it really is more comfortable to crawl into the back seat with the front seat folded forward? The French didn't allow themselves to be sold on this early on. Even a small car had to have four doors. Whereas in Germany, even the upper middle class was available with two doors until the 1970s.
Family trips, weddings, state receptions – there are many occasions when you would miss the rear doors if they were absent. On the other hand, however, hardly anyone would perceive them as actively superfluous if they were there but not needed. Four seats also need four entrances. Which is why there's always a bit of a cost-cutting measure involved with two-door cars.
Above all, however, I simply like the look of four-door cars better. I even find the much-maligned Opel Rekord P1 much more harmonious as an "LV", because it no longer looks like a bloated coupé, but like a real saloon. Whether it's a Ford Cortina, Plymouth Satellite or Nissan Skyline – I would always prefer a four-door car with the same exterior shape. Unless there is a station wagon.
